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SPECIAL SESSIONS.

AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY.

(Organized 1842.)

Daniel C. Gilman, President, Johns Hopkins University.

Edward D. Perry, Corresponding Secretary, Columbia College.

First Special Session.

Thursday, December 27, at 3 p. m.

1. Prof. Morris Jastrow, Jr., University of Pennsylvania: Note on the term Mušannitu.

2. Prof. Maurice Bloomfield, Johns Hopkins University: Two problems in Sanskrit grammar.

3. Prof. G. A. Barton, Bryn Mawr College: Some notes on the Semitic Ishtar-cult.

4. Mr. Talcott Williams, The Press, Philadelphia: Some unpublished Arabic inscriptions, in Morocco and elsewhere.

5. Prof. E. Washburn Hopkins, Bryn Mawr College: Notes on Dyāus, Varuṇa, and Viṣṇu.

6. Mr. Stewart Culin, University of Pennsylvania: The origin of games and divination in Eastern Asia.

Second Special Session.

Friday, December 28, at 2:30 p. m.

7. Dr. Theodore F. Wright, Cambridge, Mass.: Note on the Julian inscription described by Dr. Isaac H. Hall, at the meeting of March, 1894.

8. Dr. Hanns Oertel, Yale University: The Agnihotra-section of the Jāiminīya-brāhmaṇa.

9. Prof. D. B. Macdonald, Hartford Theological Seminary: Description of the recent Būlāq edition of the Jamhara Ash‘ār al-‘Arab of Abū Zayd al-Qurashī.