The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-18
118TH ANNUAL MEET
OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL
 SOCIETY.

Officers Chosen for the Ensuing Ycar---
 The New Yale Library and the Ori-
 ental SOciety-President Gilman Pre-
 sided.
 About fifty members of the American Oriental Society of America met yester- day, when the 18th annual session of the society began at Yale. The open l ing session was of the board of direc- tors, This was called at 9:30 o'clock l and consisted in clearing up the final details for the convention, the first for mai session of which commenced at Il o'clock, with President Gilman in the chair. The convention will continue for three days.
 The first hour of yesterday morning s formal session was devoted to routine 1 business. Professor Moore, of Harvard, read the reports of the last annual meeting. John Day Jackson, of this city, reported for the committee of ar- engagements; Professor Hopkins, of Yale, gave the report from the corre- spending secretary; Professor Hans I Oertel of Yale, presented the librari- ans report, and Professor Torrey the report of the editors. l A committee was chosen to nominate officers for the coming year. Its mem- bership was as follows Professors Moore, of Harvard; Jackson, of Colum- bia, and JastroW, of the University of Pennsylvania.
 1 Professor Frederick Justi of the Uni- versity of Marburg, Germany, and Pro- lessor Ignas Goldziher, of Budapest, were unanimously chosen honorary members of the society. Thirty new corporate members were elected and added to the society's roll. The nom- mating committees report on the list of officers for the coming year presented the following names, which were unan- imously chosen:
 President--C. H. Toy, of Harvard. Vice. .presidents-W. H. Ward, of New York; c. R. Nanman, of Harvard, and Morris Bloomfield, of Johns Hopkins
 Recording secretary-G. F. Moore, of Harvard
 Corresponding secretary-E. w. Hop kins, of Yale.
 Secretary of the section of the history of eligions-Professor Jastrow of the University of Pennsylvania.
 Treasurer-F. w. Williams, of Yale.
 Librarian--Hans Oertel.
 Yale's executive directors-The above officers and D. c. Gilman, Washington; Robert Harper, University of Chicago; Richard Gottheil. Columbia; Jackson, Columbia; Paul Haupt, Johns Hopkins; Torrey, Yale, and Hyvernat Catholic university Washington.
 The report of the librarian, Professor Oertel, spoke in detail of the adyan- j tages to the society which will come 4 from the new Yale library, in which .l there will be a stack for the books of the American Oriental society, furnish I ing it's volumes new quarters. The books will be transferred from their l present cramped quarters to the new ones as soon as the library Is complet- ed. Professor Oertel reported that Miss Margaret Whitney, of this city, had volunteered to catalogue the books of I the society, and that the work was al- ready partially done. For this hearty I vote of thanks was voted Miss Whit ney.
 Professor Oertel stated that about $50 was needed for binding the journal sheets of the society annually.
 The business session was followed in I the afternoon by the address of Dr. D. lC. Gilman on Recent American Con- tributions to Our Knowledge of the Ori- ent"
 l The convention will continue till to- morrow afternoon, inclusive, and about fifty papers, occupying twenty minutes each, will be read. They were begun at the session which began about 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Among the list are the following;
 Professor Toy, Harvard, ''The Decay of Fotemsm."
 Dr. Rosenau, of New York city" Some Talmudical Euphemisms."
 Professor Hopkins, of Yale, 'The Buddhist Rule Against Eating Meat"
 Rev .Dr. Abbott, Bombay, Inscription at the Fire Temple of Baku." Professor Ember Johns Hopkins Modern Additions to the Hebrew Lan. guage.'
 Dr. Lucia Grieve New York, Demon. } stration of a Brahman Woman's Daily Worship in the House."
 Professor Jastrow, University oi Pennsylvania, Did the Babyloniar Temples Have Libraries?" Professor Jewett, University of Chi cago," Announcement of a New Serie: of Arabic Texts"
 Miss Marguerite Morris, Philadelphia Race and Custom in the Malay Archi. pelago."
 Professor Max Mueller, Philadelphia "The Goddess of the Carthaginians."
 Dr. Warren, Boston university, "An- other Problem in Indo-Aryan Cosmol. ogy."
 The annual banquet of the society : was held last evening in the Tontint : hotel.
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