ELIAS JOHN WILKINSON GIBB

and to promote those researches into the History, Literature, Philosophy and Religion of the Turks, Persians and Arabs, to which, from bis Youth ufnvards, until his prématuré and deeply lamented Death in his forty-fifth year on December j, IÇOI^ his life was devoted.

"The worker pays his debt to Death; His work lives on, nay, quickeneth."

The folUnving mémorial verse is contributed by '^Abdu'l-Haqq Hàmid Bey of the Impérial Ottoman Embassy in London, one of the Foundçrs of the Neiu School of Turkish Literature, and for many years an intima te friend of the deceased.

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"^. y. W. GIBB MEMORIAL'.