130 Dr. Hoernle on the 7 th Inter national Congresss of Orientalists. [April, 



India was the only tenable one, and that, so far as his researches had 

 gone, without at present speaking positively, Romani was most closely 

 connected with the languages of Eastern Hindustan. The points urged 

 were too technical to repeat here. 



" In the evening we were invited to a great dinner party given by 

 the Organization Committee to the members of the Congress. 



" On Friday, Dr. Rost, of the India Office Library, handed in the two 

 first sheets of the classified catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in that 

 collection. 



" He was followed by Dr. W. Cartellieri, who read a paper on Su- 

 bandhu and Bana, and by Professor F. Miiller, who discussed various 

 passages in the Avesta. 



" Mr. Macauliffe, of the Panjab Civil Service, then gave some in- 

 teresting details concerning the recent discovery of a manuscript which 

 contains an account of Baba Nanak, founder of the Sikh Religion. 



" Dr. Hanusz read an interesting paper on the Polish Armenian 

 dialect of Kuty in Galicia, and dealt specially with its sound laws, He 

 then, in the author's absence, laid before the session Dr. J. Thumajan's 

 paper on ' the History of the classical Armenian literary language.' 



" In the afternoon we all went for an excursion to the heights of the 

 Kahlenberg, overlooking the City of Vienna, and commanding a magni- 

 ficent prospect. 



" On Saturday morning, the 2nd October, was held the final sitting 

 of the section. The papers read were — 



On the Turkish element in Rumania, by Professor C. P. Hasdeu, 



of Bucharest : 

 On the S'raddhas, and the worship of the dead amongst the 



Indo- Germans, by Dr. M. Winternitz : 

 On the origin of the Philosophic idea amongst the Indians and 



Chinese, by Professor M. Straszewski of Cracow ; and 

 On the Kutzovalachians of Epirus and Thessaly, and their lan- 

 guages, by Professor S. Papageorgios of Korfu. 

 " After a rather hurried sitting there was held a meeting of the dele- 

 gates and principal officers of the Congress at which it was resolved to 

 accept the gracious invitation of His Majesty the King of Sweden, and 

 to hold the next Congress at Stockholm in two or three years' time, the 

 exact date to be fixed by His Majesty. 



" There was then held a final general meeting of the Congress at 

 1 p. m., under the presidency of His Imperial and Royal Highness the 

 Protector, and after a number of valedictory speeches in various lan- 

 guages the Oriental Congress of 1886 was declared closed. 



" We may mention here, amongst other objects of interest visited by 



