THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CON- GRESS OF ORIENTALISTS
(To be held in London in September, 1891, on the Basis of the Original Principles laid down in 1873.)
Dear Sir ,—
We have the honour to invite you to take part in the Ninth Internationai Congress of Orientalists, which will be held in London from the 1st to the 10 September, 1891, on the basis of
the Statutes and of the original principles laid down at the first Meeting ot the Congress in Paris in 1873, which was succeeded by the following Meetings: London, 1874: St. Petersburg, 1876; Florence, 1878; Berlin, 1881; Leyden, 1883; Vienna, 1886; and Stockholm-Christiania, 1889.
The organizing Committee for the above Congress consists of the Members whose names are on the next page. A guarantee of £ 1.000 to defray expenses on publications, prizes, examinations, etc., has already been obtained, as also the adhesion of 350 Signatory Members in support of the above Congress in twenty-five countries.
You are aware that the place of the ninth Congress not having been designated at the last Congress, the right ot doing so reverted to the Paris founders, who exercised it by formally transmitting their powers to the London Committee, on behalf of which, as also ot the Comité de Permanence of 1873 and of the French National Committee, we have the honour of sending you the present invitation.
In the event of your being desirous of becoming a Member of the above Congress, we shall bé obliged by your kindly signifying that wish to Dr. Leitner, Woking, accompanied by your full name, designation, and address.
You will receive in return the »Record of Proceedings” and a Card of Membership, which will entitle you to any publication regarding the organization ot the Congress or the subjects for research or discussion that have already been issued or that will be issued in connexion therewith before, during, and after it
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is held. The subscription of Members is £ 1. Members will also, it is expected, be entitled to a certain reduction in railway fares, etc., during the assembling of the Congress, and to admission to any Lectures that may be held before the Congress takes place.
The Asiatice Quarterly Review, the Arabic Gritical Quarterly, and the Sanserit Critical Monthly Journals, will be open to papers from members, and to other communications regarding the Congress.
On behalf of the above Organizing Committees,
Yours very faithfully,
Patrick Colquhoun, President of the Organizing Committee. James Redhouse, Lepel H. Griffin, W. H. Bellew, Vice- Presidents. G.W. Leitner, Vice-President, Organizing Secretary and Delegate- General. G. R. Badenoch, Hyde Clarke, Assistant OrganizingSecretaries-General.
Carl Abel, Assistant Organizing Secretary for Germany. Max Nordau, Assistant Organizing Secretary for France. R. A. Sterndale, Assistant Organizing Secretary for England.
The Delegates in various countries connected with the Organization Committee (see next column).
Letters or Papers on subjects to be considered before, or to be discussed at, the Congress, in one or more of the undermentioned Sections or at the seneral meetings, are to be sent to Dr. Leitner, Oriental Institute, Woking,
England, who will also receive the subscriptions of Members; and any donations that patrons of Oriental
Learning, Governments, learned societies, or public bodies generally, may make to the Congress as a whole, or to any specific purpose of Oriental research, or to any subject of study connected with the Literature, the Art, or the industries of any part of the East. Books for presentation to the Congress, or exhibits for a special Oriental Exhibition,illustrative of the work of the Oriental Congress in its various Branches, should also be sent to Dr. Leitner, Woking, England.
Subscriptions in France may be paid to M. Leroux, 28, Rue Bonaparte, Paris, and to any of the Delegates in different countries.
The following are the Sections into
which the work of the Congress has been divided, subject to future Classification under their respective Groups :— a) Indo-Chinese. b) 1. Semitic languages, except Arabic. 2. Arabic aud Muhammadanism, c) Aryan. d) Assyriology. e) Egyptology. f) Central Asia.
g) Comparative Religion. h) Comparative Language. i) Suggestions for the encouragement of Oriental Studies. j) Summaries of Oriental Research since 1886. Æ) Sinology. /) Dravidian. m) Instructions to Explorers, &c. n) Ethnographical Philology. o) Oriental Archæology and Art. p) Molayan and Polynesian. q) Japanese. r) Relations of Europeans with Orientals. s) Oriental Linguistics in Commerce. {) Anthropology and products of the East. w) Africa (except. Egypt).
The following are the names of the office-holders in France: The French National Committee: President: Prof.
J. Oppert. Vice-Presidents: Prof. G.
Maspero, The Marquis de Croizier. Secretaries: M. Dutilh de la Tuque, M.
Ollivier M. Beauregard, M. le Baron J de Baye, M. E. Gibert. — Comité de Permanence: President: Baron Textor de Ravisi. Founder and Secretary- General: M. E. Madier de Montjau.
Names of members of the organizing committee (Ælected by the votes of Signatories of the Paris Circular dated 10fh October, 1889) for the statutory Ninth International Congress of Orientalists. (To be held in London in September, 1891, on the basis of the original principles laid down in 1873).
President of the Organizing and Reception Committees. Six Patrick Colquhoun, Q. C., LL. D., G. C.S. G., President of the Royal Society of Literature.
Vice-Presidents : Sir George Campbell, Sir James Redhouse, K. G. M. G., D. Lit.
“Sir Lepel Griffin, K.C.S.I *W. H.
Bellew, Esq., M.D., C.S.I. (Surgeon- General Bengal Army retired). ‘Prof. G.
Willeitser LLD PhD; DO Principal of the Oriental Institute, Woking.
Hon. Members: Lord Lawrence, Lord Lytton.
*) Also a member of the Reception Committee.
Members. Rev. Prof. C. H. H. Wright, D.D., Ph.D. Examiner of Hebrew of the University of London. “Hyde Clarke, Esq, Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society, etc. “Sir Roper Lethbridge, KR, CESAM A Oxon. MAP:
Sir Richard Meade, K.C.S.I.,, C.I E. Prof.
D. S. Margoliouth, Laudian Professor of Arabie at Oxford. E. W. Brabrook, Esq., Vice-President of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. E. Ransom, Esq., M.R.AS. Sir Alfred C. Lyall, K.C.B., K.C.LE., D. C.L., ete. R. Morris, Esq., M A., LL.D., President of the Philological Society of London. John Beddoe, Esq., MD. F.
RS., President of the Antropological Institute of Gt. Britain and freland.
‘G. R. Badenoch, Esq., LL.D., Dean of the Oriental Institute, Woking. Rev.
Canon Isaak Taylor, D.D. “Sir Owen Tudor Burne, KCSI., C.LE. “R A.
Sterndale, Esq., F.R.G.S. Major R. Poore.
C. H. Stephens, Esq., M.P. Israel Davis, Esq. Rai B. K. Lahiri. Prof. T. Witton- Davies. Dr. Phéné. Col. H. Fishwick.
Gen. J. S. Forlong. W. Irvine, Esq. H.
H. Risley, Esq., B.C.S. Prof. [. Platts.
H. H. Howorth, Esq.. MP. The Rev.
Dr. H. Adler. J. Stuart Glennie, Esq.
A. Cates, Esq. H. Baynes, Esq. Dr. Berrill, Hay of St. Andrews. Prof. Adams, Edinburch Hay.
Sections (in course of formation). The above and the Rev. W. M. Jones, D.
D.: the Rev. H. Collancz; Professor O.
Whitehouse, M.A.: Professor E. J. Evans, Ph.D.: Professor J. T. Marshall, M.A.:
Colonel Sir C. Wilson, Prof. Simmons, Prof. Robertson Hay of Glasgow.
Austria-Hungary: Professor Dr. A.
Ludwig. Dr. E. Glaser, Professor Dr.
Max Grünert, Professor Dr. P. Steininger, Professor Dr. Arminius Vambéry. Belgium: Professor Monseur, Professor C. H. Michel. Professor Van der Gheyn. China: General Tcheng-ki-tong.
Denmark: Professor V. Fausbôll. Egypt:
Yakub Artin Pasha, Sheikh Harmza Fathullah. Finland: Professor O. Donner and Dr. J. N. Reuter. Germany: Professor C. Abel, the Rev. Professor Dr.
Kaulen, Professor Dr. F. von Spiegel, Dr. H. H. von Bilguer, and Dr. J. Rafter.
Greece: Dr, D. Melessinos, Professor Carolides, and Chevalier Valaority. Holland: Professor G. Schlegel, Mr. J.
Meyer. India: Bombay: Dr. Gerson da
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Cunha; Madras: J. D. Rees, Esq.:
Bengal: H. H. Risley, Esq.… B.C.S.
Italy: H. E. Senator R. Bonghi, Professors G. Gorresio, C. Puini, G. Turrini, G. Cora, V. Grossi, A. Severini.
Japan: Dr. J. Inouye. Poland: Dr.
Karlowitz. Portugal, Professor G. de Vasconcellos Abreu and Professor G.
Vianna. Roumania: Professor Hazdeu.
Russia: Professor G. de Esoff, Professor A. Tsagarelli, Dr. S. Gottwald. Spain:
Professor Delfin Donadiu, Professor D.
F. Simonet, and Dr. G. C. Naranyo de Palmas. Sweden : Professor Skarstedt and Rector Malmstrôm. Switzerland :
Professor E. Montet and Professor A.
Baumgartner. United States of America:
Professor S. J. Hatfield, Dr. S. B. Platner.
(All foreign Delegates are ex-officio Members of the above International Organizing Committee).
Organizing Secretary and Delegate- General.—Dr. G. W. Leitner. Assistant Organizing Secretary-General.—Dr. G.
R. Badenoch. Assistant-Delegate General.—Hyde Clarke, Esq. Assistant Organizing Secretary for Germany.— Prof. Carl Abel. Assistant Organizing Secretary for France.—Dr. Max Nordau.
Assistant Organizing Secretary for England.—R. A. Sterndale, Esq. Assistant Organizing Joint-Secretary for England.—W. Fooks, Esq.
All office-holders formally vacate on the assembling of the Congress.
The following Essays are invited in connection with the Ninth International Congress of Orientalists:— «) Proposals for the promotion of Oriental studies, both in the East, where they are beginning to be neglected, and in the West, as a part of general and special education. b) The importance or ethnographical studies in philological inquiries. c) À scheme of transliteration for Oriental languages generally —suited for European use, not in any way to supersede the native characters for the use of natives. d) Report of researches made and of books written in the various Oriental specialities since the Seventh Meeting of the Congress, at Vienna, in 1886. e) What is the true work of an ideal International Congress of Orientalists? f) Instructions to travellers in various parts of the East. g) What relations should be cultivated between Orientalists and native Oriental
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scholars in the East? h) The importance of the study of Oriental Linguistics in Commerce.
The following Prizes have been offered through the Oriental Institute, Woking, in connection with the Statutory Ninth International Congress of Orientalists, to be held in London in September, 4891 :— a) À translation into Hindi of the Atharnaveda. Rs. 5,000. b) A translation into English of the Tafsir-ul- Jalalein. Rs. 500. c) 20 Medals and Diplomas of Honour, Merit and Approval respectively, in each of the Sections of the Congress for papers contributed to these Sections and decided on by their respective Sectional Committees.
The following notice of Oriental examinations by the Oriental Institute, Woking, is published for general information :— Boards of Examiners have been or are being constituted in various Oriental countries, in Co-operation with European Scholars, in order to test the proficiency of candidates in both native Oriental, and in European Orientalist, standards, either in a branch of Oriental learning, or in an Oriental language.
The Examinations will be held in August, 1891, in any part of Europe or the United States in which there is a Candidate and an Oriental Professor willing to superintend his examination. The Examination will be followed by the award of Certificates to successful Candidates, conveying Oriental designations of proficiency. Candidates should imform Dr. Leitner, Woking, England, oftheir qualifications, and the subject, language, and standard in or by which they desire to be examined. À limited number of successful Candidates, not exeeding twenty, will receive furnished quarters and guidance in their studies free of cost at the Oriental Institute, Woking, should they prosecute subjects of Oriental research in England, provided they abstain from all religious or political controversy and attend to the observances of their own religion. The following is a sketch of the approximate standards of some of the academical Examinations, but practical and conversational Examinations will also be held for the benefit of intending travellers to the East, and of military and civil officers generally :
