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Gustav Dugat on Hodba, an Arab poet of the 1st century for the 

 Hegira. Among the ' Nouvelles et Melanges,' always so interesting in 

 this Journal, is a letter from M. Delaporte of the French Consulate 

 at Mosal, in which we find the promise of a detailed history of that 

 city, the key of Kurdistan. Another letter from Constantinople 

 gives hope of an edition of Eashidoodeen's Jamuh-ool Towarikh, be- 

 ing shortly published at Constantinople. 



The No. for May and June continues Sanguinetti's extracts from 

 Ibn Aby Ossaibiuh's History of Physicians. The present extract 

 gives particulars of ten physicians, one of them a woman, who lived 

 before and contemporary with Mohammad, or during the reign of 

 the Ommiade and early Abbasside Caliphs. The next article is by 

 Pavie and entitled — ' Some observations on the Serpent Myth of 

 the Hindus.' Taking for his text a bas-relief in our Society's 

 Museum, representing the king and queen of the Nagas, and another 

 from Egypt representing under the form of serpents, Jupiter Serapis 

 and Iseis Myrionymus, and which is figured by Guiguiault in his 

 Eeligions de l'antiquite, the author points out several striking ana- 

 logies between Indian myths and Western traditions, as well biblical 

 as Greek and Egyptian. M. Cherbonneau abstracts from a MS. 

 of Ibn Hammud some interesting information regarding Obeid Allah 

 the founder of the Fatimite dynasty, and M. Belin with a few 

 remarks on the system of instruction pursued in the Ottoman 

 Colleges, gives the text and translation of an Idjaye or Professor's 

 diploma, such as is in use in Turkey. The No. concludes with a 

 notice by Eeinaud of the new Catalogue of the Oriental MSS. of 

 the Imperial Library of Paris now under preparation, and of which 

 the 1st vol. is to appear next year. 



The July No. of the same Journal is entirely occupied by Mohl's 

 Annual Eeport which gives a full and most interesting resume of 

 the labours of oriental scholars during 1854-55. 



The 3rd No. of the Zeitschrift of the German Oriental Society 

 opens with Prof. Eodiger's report for 1854. Fliigel notices certain 

 peculiar methods of attaching dates to their works in the sixteenth 

 century by copyists of Mohammedan MSS. Von Hammer continues 

 his extracts from Saalchi. Prof. Pott of Halle follows with a philo- 

 logical paper, in which he points out where he differs from Max 



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