The morning news., 1899-03-07
DIRECTOR BRANDT's REPORT.
His Proposition to Visit the East I'm
Behalf of TeIfair Academy.

Behalf of TeIfair Academy.
Director Carl L. Brandt submitted his
report as director of the Telfair Academy
and it was referred to the board of man
ayers. The report is an interesting re-
sumo of Mr.. Brandt's work in behalf of
the academy during the last year and re-
fers to his proposition to visit the East
Tor the purpose of adding still further to
the gallery's works Of art. 1t is as fol-
lows:
AS director of the Telfalr Academy of
Arts and Sciences, I respectfully. renort
to the Georgia Historical Society. its
trustee, the following:
Eight or nine years ago I received a LET
Ter from DR.. Cyrus Adler of the Smithson-
ian Institution at Washington. in which he
requested the loan of a catalogue of the
Hodgson collection of Arabic manuscripts
which ne thought probable of being among
the DOCKS of Mr.. Hodgsons library pre-
served in the Telfair Academy of Arts and
Sciences. searched for the desired article
but failed to find it, and so acquainted
Dr. Adler. I had laid aside all the manu-
scripts and printed books of Oriental
origin which I could find in the academy.
ON receipt of my letter the doctor made
the further request of the loan Of the col
lection itself for the purpose of examina-
ton, instruction and cataloguing
laid the matter before the board of mana
gers, who adopted resolution to grant
the request, and the collection was sent
to Washington Soon after that DR.. Ad-
Ter went to Europe and spent several
years in the Orient. I received raj
letters from him during that time regard
ing this matter; then for a number of
years learned nothing more about it, un-
til last year, when l saw him at the
Smithsonian Institution. He informed me
that the collection was in the hands of
DR.. Henry Hyvenat, professor of Oriental
languages at the Catholic University; that
an elaborate description of it
was being made, which would
be published in the journal of
the American Oriental Society; that
the work would render great service to
students of Oriental languages, history
and archaeology, and serve to the best
interest of learning and science. 1 again
saw DR.. Adler about two months ago, when
he told me that he had just sent the
manuscripts and books back to Savan-
nah 1 found them at the academy on
my return hither, and soon after a type
written copy of the new catalogue follow
ed.
Mr.. Hodgson, learned llnguist
himself, made this collection dur
ing his sojourn as United States consul
at Tunis, from which he returned in 1872
A copy of the catalogue the Smithsonian
Institution was looking for has been re-
Gently found in the library of Yale Col
lege, and no doubt has been of great
service 10 DR.. Adler in this task, an ardu-
Gus work, for which the TeIfair Academy
is under obligation to him. I have found
several more manuscripts few days ago
and shall have a description of them in
serted in the new catalogue.
Another matter of interest to the society,
which l report with great pleasure, is that
the academy has received a new picture,
ship of the Desert" by an American
artist E. L. Weeks, who has his studio
in Paris. Mr.. Weeks is noted and sue
cessful painter. The painting is the gift
of Mr. R. c. Johnson of Washington :
a friend of NINE who is the owner of a
valuable collection of paintings, mostly
by foreign artists. Among them many
fine old English portraits by Gainsbor-
ough Sir Josua Reynolds, Lawrence,
Kneller, Hoppner, Romney, Raeburn, Opie
and others, for which large sums of
money have been paid
on various occasions have hinted to
the owner that his collection would show
to great advantage in the Telfair gal
lery, and that / looked forward hoping
TO see Mr.. Johnson's name inscribed in
our catalogue as an honored donor of the