166 Literary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. [No. 2. 



Literary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



The Journal Asiatique for August and September, No. 14, opens 

 with a letter, by M. de Tchihatchef, pointing out the different 

 spots in Asia Minor which struck him as likely to afford interest- 

 ing results to antiquarian researches. He was five years in the 

 country, which however, he was exploring with a view to studying 

 its physical character. Then follows a notice by M. Cherbonneau on 

 the journey of El-Abdery through N. Africa in the 7th Century A. H. 

 and a continuation of M. Sanguinetti's translation of Ibn Ossai- 

 bi'ah's History of Physicians. M. Clement Mullet, in a notice on 

 the knowledge of Natural History by the Arabs, remarks on the 

 extent to which they borrowed from the Greeks, and especially from 

 Aristotle. Several interesting extracts are given from Maimonides, 

 Damiry and Kazwini on the family of the Arachnides. 



No. 15 of the same Journal for October and November contains 

 Mr. Bazin's paper on the Administrative and Municipal Institutions 

 of China. M. Woepcke commences his Inquiries into the history 

 of the Mathematical Sciences in the East : his first Essay is on the 

 employment of Algebraic notations by the Western Arabs to whom 

 it was known, he shows, before the 13th century, though in none of 

 the works on Algebra written by their countrymen in the East 

 between the 9th and 17th centuries, is any kind of notation used. 

 M. Pavie continues his extracts from the Bhoja Prabandha, the 

 subject of his present article being the residence of Kalidasa at the 

 court of Bhoj. 



No. 4 of the German Oriental Society's Journal contains Eodi- 

 ger's Report for 1851 and 1852, a continuation of Grant's paper on 

 the Tamul MSS. of the Leipzig Missionary Society, and of M. 

 Haug's paper on Zend Eesearches. Then follows an interesting 

 communication from M. Grotefend, sent to the Editor fourteen days 

 only before the old man's death, on the most ancient traditions of 

 the East. It consists of two papers, both dated November, 1853, 

 the subject of one being Sennacherib as the hero-warrior of tradition, 

 and that of the other being the first war on the earth which the 

 author regards as an invention of later days. Freytag gives a 



