104 [April, 1902.] 
IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL. Vol. VIII. No. 88. 
Sir William Hunter’s chief assistant in the original compilation of the great work he is 
now to revise and bring up to date. His headquarters are to be at the India Office, 
and the writing of special sections will, as in the case of the first edition, be entrusted to 
expert assistants. 
The “Financial Times,” Limited. (London.) The Mining Year-Book , igos. 
Edited by A. N. Jackman. Introduction by J. W. Broomiiead. With Directories of 
Directors, Secretaries, Mining Engineers and Metallurgists ; Glossary of Mining Terms. 
8vo., pp. 1,317* (Price, 15s.) The second issue of this excellently compiled year- 
book shows a considerable improvement on the first edition as regards facility for 
eference and saving of time and trouble. The volume is prefaced by an able article 
on the rise and present position of mining in all the principal goldfields of the world, 
and a glossary of mining terms for the assistance of the general reader. An important 
addition to the book is the list of Mining Engineers and Metallurgists, their qualifica- 
tions, the nature of their experience and where acquired, and their present addresses, 
telephone numbers, and telegraphic addresses. This information will be of great value to 
officials of mining companies. Another improvement is that a comprehensive analysis 
of the last statement is shown alongside the corresponding figures for the previous 
period. Every care appears to have been taken to make this Year-book complete, 
accurate, and up-to-date. The numerous additions have necessitated a considerable 
enlargement of the book, and the printing and typing are clear and effective. To all 
interested in mining, in any part of the world, the book will be of great service, and 
it should be very useful to mining and finance companies. 
The Scientific Press Limited. (London, 1902.) Burden's Hospitals and Charities , 
ig02 y being the Year-Book of Philanthropy and the Hospital Annual. By Sir HENRY 
Burdett, K.C.B. Thirteenth year of issue. 8vo., pp. viii + 994. (Price 5s.) 
This useful year-book contains an exhaustive record of hospital work and a review of 
its position and requirements, with articles on management, expenditure, the nursing 
department, and special incidents and hospital construction in 1901. The book becomes 
more valuable each year, as the interest in hospitals and hospital work increases. The ( 
example of the King in initiating and bringing to a successful issue the Prince of Wales’s 
Hospital Fund, now by his wish styled “ King Edward’s Hospital Fund,” has given 
a great impulse to the support the hospitals receive, and all who wish them to continue 
to be successful are invited to subscribe to a Coronation Gift to provide a sum equal to 
at least .£100,000 a year, secured upon invested capital and annual subscriptions, which 
shall be placed to the credit of this fund. This would greatly aid the carrying on of the 
■work of the hospitals, and relieve much of the anxiety with regard to their support. Sir 
Henry Burdett’s year-book will be of great service in giving information as to the 
channels in which this assistance may be most usefully directed. 
persons submitting them, of the usual professional fees, to be previously 
specified, and agreed to by the applicant. 
The Institute will undertake to procure, and supply, at cost price, 
translations into any language, of trade circulars, prices-current, etc., and 
the conversion of weights, measures, coinages, etc. 
The City Branch will shortly be removed to pg, Eastcheap , E.C. 
SCHOOL OF MODERN ORIENTAL STUDIES. 
Founded by the hnperial Institute in union with University College and King’s College , 
London . 
In 1887 it was suggested that a school of Modem Oriental Studies should be organised 
as a branch of the Institute, in imitation of the very efficient establishments of this kind which 
are carried on, with Government resources, in France, Germany, and Austria, The pro- 
mulgation of this proposal led to negotiations with the authorities of University College and 
King’s College, London, which resulted in their co-operation with the Institute in the 
establishment of the School. A Special Committee having been appointed to decide upon a 
system of work, it was arranged that classes for instruction in the Oriental languages required 
by students qualifying for examinations for the Indian Civil Service, should be held at 
University College, while modern Oriental languages, other than the Indian languages, 
should be taught at King’s College, and that the Imperial Institute should undertake the 
general administrative and financial work. The School was officially opened in January, 
1890, when an inaugural address was delivered by Professor Max Muller at the Royal 
Institution, in the presence of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. The daughters of 
the late Colonel W. J. Ouseley (Bengal Army) have established and endowed, in his memory, 
three scholarships, in Arabic, Persian, IPindustani, and other Oriental languages, in con- 
nection with the School, eacn one of the value of not less than £5° P er annum. The 
following Scholarships have already been awarded : — 
4. 
CITY BRANCH OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE, AT 
112, CANNON STREET, LONDON, E.C. 
The City Branch of the Imperial Institute embraces 
1. A News Room, supplied with : — 
(a) The chief British Industrial and Commercial Periodicals ; 
(b) Many United States, German, and French Commercial Period- 
icals ; 
(c) Commercial Periodicals of the principal Colonies and of 
India ; 
(1 d) Market reports, prices-current, and statistics. 
2. An Enquiry Office, in telephonic communication with the Com- 
mercial Information Office of the Imperial Institute at South Kensington. 
Enquiries relating to industrial, commercial, and other matters connected 
with the Colonies, India, and Foreign Countries, are received and promptly 
dealt with, and samples of products from the Colonies and India, stored 
at the Imperial Institute, can be inspected or obtained. Expert valuation 
will be furnished of samples submitted for that purpose. 
The News Room is free to Fellows of the Institute, as is also the 
Enquiry Office for obtaining such information as does not involve special 
research or correspondence. 
A subscription of the sum of one pound per annum, payable in 
advance, secures the free use of the News Room, and the supply, free of 
charge, of information not involving special research or correspondence. 
Subscribers of one pound per annum are also entitled to inspect, 
free of charge , any maps or charts included in the Map Room collection 
at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, and to consult any works, or 
official papers, included in the Institute Library. Passes admitting to the 
Library or the Map Room for the foregoing purposes will be issued, as 
required, on application to the Clerk at the City Office. 
Non- Subscribers to the City Branch can be supplied with information 
upon the following terms 
(a) First enquiry, not involving special research or correspondence, 
free. 
(b) For each subsequent enquiry, not involving special research or 
correspondence, one shilling. 
( c ) For each enquiry, involving special correspondence, or interviews 
with home-experts, etc., five shillings. 
(d) For each enquiry involving Colonial or Foreign correspondence, 
ten shillings ; or by special arrangement, if likely to be 
voluminous. 
Subscribers will have to pay the charges specified under (c) and (d) 
in the foregoing clause : Fellows will only be required to reimburse the 
Institute any out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with enquiries 
coming under those heads. 
. The Information Department will undertake to obtain analytical or 
other examinations of samples by competent Experts, upon payment, by 
Year. 
Subject. 
Examiners. 
1892 
Arabic . 
f Dr. Wells ..... 
\ Prof. Salmons .... 
1893 
Arabic . 
Dr. Wells 
f r 
Persian . 
/Mr. John T. Platts . 
I^Mirza Hussein Kuli Khan 
1894 
Hindustani . 
Mr. John T. Platts , 
Persian 
Dr. Robert Bruce 
Chinese 
Sir Thomas Wade 
1895 
Turkish . 
Dr. Wells .... 
Hindustani . 
Mr. J. T. Platts 
Chinese . 
1896 
Burmese 
Gen. R. D. Ardagh 
Arabic . 
Dr. Wells ..... 
Marathi . 
Mr. J. W. Neill .... 
1897 
Gujarati 
Dr. S. A Kapadia . 
Persian . 
Mr. J. T. Platts 
Chinese . 
Mr. W. A. Pickering, C.M.G. 
1898 
Bengali . 
Prof. J. F. Blumhardt 
Turkish . 
Dr. Wells 
1899 
Chinese . 
Arabic . 
Dr. Wells 
Persian . 
Dr. Ross 
Sanskrit , 
Prof, C, Bendall 
IQOO 
Hindustani 
Mr. J. T. Platts 
1901 
Marathi . 
Prof. J. W. Neill 
Awarded to. 
No Competitors . 
Mr. Henry Leitner, junr. 
Mr. E. Denison Ross. 
No Competitors. 
Mr. Diwan Tek Chand. 
No Competitors. 
Mr. L. Stennett Amery. 
Mr. Asghar Ali, 
No Competitors. 
Mr. Lee Ah Yain. 
Mr. H. G. Sarwar. 
Mr. V. R. Pandit. 
Mr. Rustum D. N. Wadia. 
Mr. P. S. Patuck, 
No award. 
Mr. B. C. Ghosh. 
Lieut. A. M. Seton, R.A. 
No Competitors. 
Mr. G. A. Khan. 
Mr. R. M. Davis. 
Mr. S. K. Ghosf. 
Mr. N. Hagopian. 
Mr. J. R. Martin, 
An OUSELEY SCHOLARSHIP of £50, tenable for two years, will be awar 
this year, should sufficient merit be shown, for proficiency in Persian. No person 
will be admitted to competition for a Scholarship in a language which is his own mother 
tongue , nor for a Scholarship in a language allied to his mother tongue. 
The examination takes place early in July, 1902, 
Competitors must give notice on or before July 1, 1902. 
The ages of Candidates are to be above 17 and under 25 years on January 1 of the 
year of examination. 
Further particulars may be obtained from the Secretary, S.M.O.S., Imperial Institute, 
S.W. 
GENERAL INFORMATION FOR INTENDING STUDENTS AT THE SCHOOL. 
The classes which the “ School of Modern Oriental Studies" comprises, are divided under two heads. 
Division I. includes classes for all Oriental Languages especially required by Students qualifying for 
examinations for the Indian Civil Service, the instruction being of the same character as that provided for 
some time past at University College and at King’s College. This Division includes instruction in Sanskrit, 
Bengali, Hindi, Hindustani, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Pali, Marathi, Gujarati, Arabic, and Persian, 
Division II consists mainly of classes for Modem Oriental Languages other than the Indian Languages. 
The courses of tuition are of a practical rather than of an academic character ; they have particular 
reference to commercial and official requirements and to the facilitation of colloquial intercourse with, 
natives of Oriental Countries. 
It is in contemplation, so soon as the number of students warrants the expenditure, to secure the 
services of native readers and teachers of conversation in connection with the classes of this Division. 
The classes under this Division are conducted at King’s College, where arrangements will also be 
made for the establishment of evening classes. 
The Languages taught in Division II. comprise Colloquial Arabic Armenian, Modern Greek, 
Colloquial, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Burmese, Japanese, Malay, and Swahili, 
Arrangements have been completed by the Managing Committee and approved of by the Governing Bodies 
of the Imperial Institute and of the two Colleges, for the pursuit of studies relating to the history, literature, 
commercial and physical geography, political economy, and the natural and industrial resources, of the 
countries and districts in which the various languages are used. 
Special Lectures or courses of Lectures will be delivered from time to time, in connection with the School, 
bv experts or specialists, in any of the foregoing subjects. 
There are three terms, of about ten weeks, in each year, as follows ! — 
Spring Term — commencing about the middle of January. 
Sommer Term — commencing early in May. 
Autumn Term — commencing about the middle of October. 
A fee of Three Guineas per term will have to be paid, in advance, by each Student for each Language 
taken up for instruction. This payment will entitle the Student to the use, within the College, of text 
books, dictionaries, and works of reference required in connection with the particular Language taught, and 
to the use of all the facilities which it is proposed to secure in the development of the School. 
Accommodation is provided at the Imperial Institute to enable Students to pursue their studies at 
hours when the classes are not held. The Libraries of both Colleges will be open to Students in any of. the 
classes of the School, during the usual hours of study. 
Intending Students should communicate with the Secretary at the offices of the Imperial Institute,. 
London, S.W., where the registration of Students will take place, and where all information regarding the 
School will be supplied- 
