Book of Abstracts from Papers Given at the Conference. These are:

• "An Analysis of the Extent of the Spatial Spread of Electrification in Ethiopia and Prospects for Further Development" by Mekete Belachew
• "The Ideal Typical Model of Transport Evolutions and the Development of the Ethiopian Road Transport Network: A Comparitive Analysis" by Makonnen Tesfahunegu
• "The Wall of Harar" by Mengistu Asfaw "La Reve Initiatique d'un Medicin Traditionnel: De Deux Facons de Precher" by J. Mercier
• "History of Botanical Explorations in Ethiopia" by Mesfin Tadesse
• "Regional Political Organization in the Axum - Yeha Area during the Axumite Era" by Joseph W. Michels
• "Des composés expressifs en couchitique oriental" by Didier Morin
• "Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis of terminology of Hierarchical Relationship (kinship and other relations in Oromo)" by Mulugeta Eteffa
• "The British Institute in Eastern Africa's Excavations at Aksum, Northern Ethiopia" by Stuart Munro-Hay
• "Liability for the Acts of Minors under Ethiopian Law" by Negatu Tesfaye
• "Oral Skills and Knowledge of Languages, A Resource in Development" by Birgit Negussie
• "Responses to resettlement: Household, Marriage and Divorce" by Alula Pankhurst
• "Emperor Tewodros II and the Battle of Maqdala (1868) as Depicted in Ethiopian Popular Art" by Richard Pankhurst
• "Addis-Abbaba Master Plant 1983-1985: A Labour Demand Allocation Model for the Central Planning Region" by Francesco Gosen and Domenico Patassini
• "Alternatives in Rural Development in Ethiopia" by Siegfried Pausewang
• "Les Montales Ethiopiennes à Jerusalem" by Kirsten Pedersen
• "Le Francais qui devint l'un des deux plus grande saints de l'Ethiopie (1190-1220)" by S. Pierre Petrides
• "Why Plant Trees? - Tree Planting and Household Budgets" by Eva Poluha
• "Ethiopia: a dramatic country" by Chris Prouty Rosenfeld
• "Cout Financier et Cout Sociaux de la Politique des Transferts de Population" by Gérard Prunier
• "Semitic South-Ethiopic: The definite future revisited" by S. Raz
• "Soviet Policy towards Ethiopia since Gorbachev" by R.B. Remnek
• "Some remarks on translating into Amharic" by Lanfranco Ricci
• "On Language Use in a Resettlement Area (The Case Study of Pawe)" by Renate Richter
• "A Propos d'une Oeuvre Mineure d'Afa-Warq Gabra-Iyasus" by Alain Rouaud
• "Genius as Madness: Sayyid Muhammad of Somalia and Negus Tewodros of Ethiopia in Comparative Perspective" by Said S. Samatar
• "Recherches pour le Musée de l'Institut des Etudes Ethiopiennes" by Anne Saurat
• "The Seventh-day Adventist Mission in Ethiopia: 1906-1940 A Preliminary Report" by Alberto Sbacchi
• "L'épigraphie aksoumite du Ier au IIIe siècle" by Roger Schneider
• "The Impact of Legislation on the Development of Modern Education in Ethiopia" by Seyoum Teferra
• "Tinkerers and Strangers in Ethiopian Political History" by William A. Shack
• "The People of Dire Dawa: Towards a Social History (1902-1936)" by Shiferaw Bekele
• "The Rastafarians: Their Relationship with Ethiopia" by Norman J. Singer
• "The Ethiopian Orthodox Church Yesterday and Today" by L.B. Solomon and G. Sellassie
• "Recent Changes in the Pattern of Domestic Migration to Addis Ababa" by Solomon Mulugeta
• "Do the Hamar have a Concept of Honour?" by Ivo Strecker
• "Terms of Endearment in Amharic: Their Morphological Structures and Sociolinguistic Norms" by Taddese Beyene
• "Ethnic Interaction and Integration in Ethiopian History: The Case of the Gāfāt" by Taddesse Tamrat
• "The Use of Dreams in Amharic Prose Fiction" by Taye Assefa
• "La première description de l'Ethiopie imprimée en Occident" by Salvatore Tedeschi
• "The Generation and Dissemination of Agricultural Technology in Ethiopia" by Tennassie Nichola
• "L'Influence du Roi David et son Psautier Ethiopie" by Tekle-Tsadik Mekouria
• "The Process of Urbanization in Wellegga, Western Ethiopia: the Case of Nekemte" by Tesemma Ta'a
• "Tradition and Change: The Study of the Economic Anthropology of Traditional Ari's Voluntary Labour Organizations (Southwest Ethiopia)" by Tesfa Mekonnen
• "The Patterns and Problems of Work Trips in Addis Ababa" by Tesfaye Taffesse
• "The Role of the 'Derg' (PMAC) In consolidating The Revolutionary Process In Ethiopia (1974-1987)" by Teshome Kebede
• "The Challenge of Resocializing Ethiopian Jews in Israel: A Field Study" by Professor Teshome G. Wagaw
• "The Reopening of the Ogaden: A Cursory View of the History of NAFTANA" by Tibebe Eshete
• "Word Accent in Amharic: A Psycho-acoustic Experimental Study" by Tsegaye Woldeyesus
• "The Heroic Defence of Ethiopia Against Somali Aggression (July 1977-March 1978)" by Tzeggae Tecle
• "The Last Chapter of Acta in the Ethiopic Version" by Siegbert Uhlig
• "Primary and secondary sources for Ethiopian historiography: the case of slavery and slave-trade in Ethiopia" by E. van Donzel
• "Social position of a writer in a developing society (with special reference to Ethiopia)" by Michael Volpe
• "Tone Languages of Ethiopia: An Update with typological notes" by Klaus Wedekind
• "Gradual Completion of Thoughts while speaking and Notional Units in H.E. Cushitic Narratives" by Klaus Wedekind
• "Community Participation in Education for Development in Ethiopia" by Zaudneh Yimtatu

Book of Abstracts from Papers at the Conference. These are:

• "Ethiopia's Balance of Payments 1975-1985" by Eshetu Chole
• "Food and Development in Ethiopia: Retrospect and Prospect" by Fassil G. Kiros
• "The Development of Peasant Producers' Cooperatives in Post-Revolutionay Ethiopia: Some Problems and Prospects" by Fassil Teffara
• "The Contribution of the Recent Field Work at Kassala (Eastern Sudan) to Ethiopian Archaeology" by Rodolfo Fattovich
• "Taphonomie et archézoologie du site oldowayen de Gomboré I B à Melka Kunturé, Ethiopie Etude préliminaire" by Martine Faure
• "The Pastoral Nomads of Ethiopia and their Development Prospects" by Fedadu Gadamu
• "Aspects of literary production, distribution and consumption in Ethiopia before 1974" by Fedake Azeze
• "Groupes Geographiques et Groupes Tribaux Patrilineaires chex les °Afar" by Robert Ferry
• "Mashafa Haywet and Mangada Samāy: D'après onze manuscrits inédits" by Luigi Fusella
• "The Qemant Domestic Cycle, Ambilineality, and Time" by Frederick C. Gamst
• "Control of Media and Concept of Image by Haile Selassie I" by John Gartley
• "Diviser pour régner: les vicissitudes du découpage administratif de l'Ethiopie depuis la Guerre, étude géographique" by Alain Gascon
• "Titre: On Ethiopian Women and Feminism" by Ghenet Girma
• "'Oneself', 'One's Own' and 'One Another' in Amharic" by Gideon Goldenberg
• "Social Ministry of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the Past and the Present" by Ahuha Bishop Gorgorewo
• "Biographie Resumée d'Eloi Pino (1845-1907)" by Roger Grau
• "A Proposal for a Typological Characterization of Semitic Languages" by Y. Gruntfest
• "Le genre Ceratotherium (Mammalia, Rhincerotidae) dans le Pliio-Pléistocène d'Ethiopie et son évolution en Afrique" by Claude Guérin
• "Builders of Churches and Authors of Hymns: Makers of Ethiopian Church History" by Getatchew Haile
• "Commercial Farming Initiatives in Italian East Africa (Ethiopia), 1936-1941" by Larebo Haile
• "Against an Initial WH Filter in Amharic" by Girma Halefom
• "Revolution and the History of the Ethiopian State" by John W. Harbeson
• "Notes on the Ge'ez text of IV Ezra" by Walter Harrelson
• "Early Byzantine Sculptural Fragments from Adulis" by Marilyn E. Heldman
• "Ethiopia's Economic Prospects for the 1990s" by Paul B. Henze
• "Erste Informationen über die Kirche Athiopens im reformatorischen Deutschland" by Friedrich Heyer
• "Ethiopian Slavery and British Abolitionism: The View from the American Legation 1920-1935" by Dennis Hickey
• "L'Ethiopie de G. Gastaldi" by Bertrand Hirsch
• "Grande Somalie/Grande Ethiopie: Aspects parallèles, contradictoires et complémentaires des deux nations" by M. Jean Honnorat
• "The Life and Career of Shykh Talha B. Ja'far (c.1853-1934)" by Hussein Ahmed
• "Ethiopian Immigration Law On The Exclusion and Deportation of Foreign Nationals" by Ibrahim Idris
• "A History of Joseph" by E. Isaac
• "'Melody Types' and 'Formulas' in Ethiopian Chant: The Manuscript Evidence (13th-20th Centuries)" by Peter Jeffery
• "L'Art Rupestre de Djibouti dans son Contexte Est-Africain" by Roger Joussaume
• "Syntax and the history of the Semitic languages of Ethiopia" by Olga Kapeliuk
• "Falasha Religion: Ancient Judaism or Evolving Ethiopian tradition" by Steven Kaplan
• "Archaeological Research in Ethiopia: Progress and Current Situation" by Kassaye Begashaw
• "Some Issues in the Pronominal System in Adere" by Girmay Berhane
• "Using Modern Sources to Achieve Historical Reconstruction in the Study of Ethiopian Christian Chant" by Kay Kaufman Shelemay
• "The Customary Law Codes of Hamasen" by Friederike Kemink
• "Contemporary Ethiopian Woodcuts in Social Context" by Professor Wendy Kindred
• "La Theologie au Service de la Rebellion" by Manfred Kopp
• "Les stéphanites à la lumière des actes d'Isaie de Gunda-Gundē" by Stanislaw Kur
• "Education in People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia: Laying the Foundation for a Socialist Educational System" by Legesse Lemma
• "Les 'Ensablés': Fascistes Oubliés d'Ethiopie" by Fabienne le Houerou
• "Publication Cooperation Internationale d'un Catalogue des Anciens Manuscrits Ethiopiens à Miniatures" by Claude Lepage
• "Birth of a vernacular literature" by Wolf Leslau
• "Social Gatherings among the Shoa Oromo" by Herbert S. Lewis
• "Problemes du Mouvement Eustathien" by Gianfrancesco Lusini
• "Bridewealth, marriage and kinship in Hamar" by Jean Lydall
• "Social and Cultural Impact of Resettlement: The Case of Potters in the Beles Valley" by Loredana Magni and Stefano Berterame
• "The Ethiopian Manuscripts Marginalia" by Joanna Mantel-Niécko
• "Le Refus de l'Independance à Sagueneiti dans l'Erythrée des Années 40" by Roland Marchal
• "Haile Sellassie and Development, 1916-1960" by Harold G. Marcus
• "Abscence et Utilisation des Images. A Propos de Quatre Evenements Majeurs de l'Histoire Recente de l'Ethiopie" by Francois Margolin
• "Le gadla Yemrehanna Krestos: aperçu préliminaire" by Paolo Marrassini

Book of Abstracts from Papers Given at the Conference. These are:

• "Two Fragments of Ethiopian Church History" by Abba Ayelé Teklehaymanot
• "The cannibalist discourse in Me'en society, Southwest Ethiopia" by J. Abbink
• "The Dilemma of Arssi Balabbats: A Critical Study of Socio-economic position of Local Chiefs, 1836-1974" by Abas Haji
• "A Preview of Ethiopian Customary Law: The Application, Codification and Unity in Diversity" by Aberra Jembere
• "Anglo-Italian Conflicting Interests in The Lake Tana Region 1913-1935" by Abdussamad H. Ahmad
• "Sheko Phonology and Morphophonemics" by Aklilu Yilma
• "The Use of Food Aid and its Implications for Agricultural Production in Ethiopia" by Alemayehu Lirenso
• "Morphological features of two Oromo dialects: Harer and Wellaga" by Mohammed Ali
• "Compensating for the natural ecosystem: intensified agriculture (Southwest Ethiopia)" by Hermann Amborn
• "Axoum du Premier au Troisième Siècle: Les témoignages matérials" by Francis Anfray
• "Quelques Remarques sur la Morphologie du Verbe en Amharique" by Jean-Pierre Angoujard
• "Agricultural Price Policy in Ethiopia" by A. Aseffa
• "Regional Variation in Fertility, Mortality and Population Growth in Ethiopia 1970-81" by Asmerom Kidane
• "A Social Profile of Gondar Town in the Early twentieth Century" by Bahru Zewde
• "The Critical Edition of the Ethiopic Senodos: Some preliminary remarks" by Alessandro Bausi
• "Focus in Oromo" by Baye Yimam
• "Un procès en recherche de paternité" by Berhanou Abbebé
• "La système verbal de l'amharique" by Fernand Bentolila and Frew Shimelis
• "Coalition Politics and the Royal Office in Mid-18th Century Gondar" by LaVerle Berry
• "Problems in Axumite chronology" by Francois de Blois
• "Across the Great Divide: Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations in the Afar Rift and Adjacent Highlands of Ethiopia" by Steven A. Brandt
• "Agrarian Development Policy and Foreign Aid: The Ethiopian Experience" by Dr Stefan Brüne
• "L'énigme de la 75° Nationalité" by J. Bureau
• "Le Kebra Nagast et les Révélations du Pseudo-Méthode" by André Caquot
• "Les Industries Paleolithiques du Lac Langano Premier Aperçu Stratigraphique et Typologique" by Jean Chavaillon, Kassaye Begaschaw, Arlette Berthelet, Tamrat Wodajo and Zelalem Assefa
• "Groupes Patrilineaires et Territoriaux Chez Les °Afar" by Eduoard Chedeville
• "Les Trois Hebreux dans la Fournaise: Une enquete iconographique dans la peinture éthiopienne" by S. Chojnacki
• "Un ancien ensemble religieux islamique à Massaoua: la mosquée de Sayh Hammali" by Frederico Cresti
• "Political measures Taken by the Ethiopian Revolution to Resolve the Conflict in Eritrea" by Daniel Ghebrekidan
• "The Lands of the Church of Däbrä S'ähay Qʷesqʷam, Gondar" by Donald Crummey and Saumet Sishague
• "Rural Women and Household Labour Use Patterns in Ethiopia: A Review of Some Evidences" by Dejene Aredo
• "Addis-Abbaba master Plant 1983-1985: A Labour Demand Allocation Model for the Central Planning Region" by Francesco Gosen and Domenico Patassini
• "The History and Problems of Bridges in Ethiopia" by Dellelegne Teshome
• "Cases before the Emperors" by Franz Amadeus Dombrowski
• "The Jews of Ethiopia: Extinction or Rejuvenation?" by Jack Yair Edelstein
• "Ethiopia, Egypt and the Mahdiyya - Survialism in facing the West" by Professor Haggai Erlich

"Builders of Churches and Authors of Hymns: Makers of History in the Ethiopian Church" by Getatchew Haile. Notes to accompany a Paper delivered at the Conference.

In 1922 the Société Asiatique celebrated its centenary. Material connected with this is:

• Letter from Émile Senart to request the presence of a delegate at the centenary celebration from 10-13 July 1932. Printed in French, dated 1 May 1922.
• Letter from the Bureau of the Société Asiatique concerning the double celebration of the centenary of the Société Asiatique and the centenary of the discovery of "Champollion". Printed in French, undated.
• Advertisement for "Le Livre du Centenaire (1822-1922)" - a publication produced for the centenary of the Société Asiatique. Typed in French, undated.

Certificate and accompanying letter signed by Charles Athanase Walckenaer from the Institut de France, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres to certify that Hodgson had been made a Corresponding Member of the Academy. Printed and handwritten material in French, 2 sides, dated 27 December 1850.

Certificate and accompanying letter from the Turin's Royal Academy of Sciences (Regia Taurinensis Academia), Le Secrétaire de la Classe des Sciences Physiques et Mathématiques. to Brian Houghton Hodgson to announce Hodgson has been made an Associate Correspondent of the Academy. Certificate, printed material in Latin with handwritten insertions in Latin and French, dated 11 June, 1844; letter handwritten in French with printed letterhead, dated [8] June 1844.

This Series contains 52 letters between Thomas Manning and his father, William Manning, Rector of Diss. These date from 1785, when Thomas was a child on holiday, until 1810, the year of William Manning's death There are a further 5 letters between Thomas Manning and other family members.

"Ethnic Interaction and Integration in Ethiopian History: The Case of the Gāfāt" by Taddesse Tamrat. Text of a Paper delivered at the Conference.

In 1938, l'Institut d'Histoire de l'Émigration Politique Contemporaine celebrated the 750th anniversary of the death of the Georgian poet, Chota Roustaveli. This correspondence and printed material are in connection with that celebration. They are:

• Letter from The President, Institut d'Histoire de l'Emigration Politique Contemporaine, to the Royal Asiatic Society to inform them of the celebration, of the Organising Committee, and of associated names and activities. He asks if the Society will consent to send a representative. Typed with printed letterhead, dated 29 January 1938.
• "Institut d'Histoire de l'Émigration Politique Contemporaine" - printed pamphlet concerning the Committees of the Society and its activities.
• Letter from Royal Asiatic Society to l'Institut d'Histoire de l'Émigration Politique Contemporaine to state that Sir Oliver Wardrop would be the Society's representative upon the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the death of the Georgian Poet, Chola Roustaveli. Typed with printed letterhead, dated 18 February 1938.
• Postcard from Sir Oliver Wardrop to the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to state that the ceremony has been postponed until 30 March 1938. Handwritten, dated 20 February 1938.