Subseries RAS ICO/2/4 - Printed Material

Printed material concerned with the 9th International Congress. These are:

• Newspaper cutting from The Morning Post of a letter from Patrick Colquhoun, G.W. Leitner and H.W. Bellew announcing their declaration that the proposed International Congress of Orientalists in 1892 is not in accordance with the International Assembly of Orientalists' regulations. Dated 21 April [1891].
• Letter from Robert K. Douglas, J.F. Hewitt, E.W. Bullinger and A.A. Macdonell, Honorary Secretaries, to forward a copy of the circular for the 9th International Congress of Orientalists. Dated February 1891.
• List of the Officers for the Ninth International Congress of Orientalists, also inviting other Orientalists to join. Two copies, dated 12 May 1891.
• Letter from Robert K. Douglas, E.W. Bullinger and A.A. Macdonell, Honorary Secretaries, to announce to Meeting of the Congress in September 1892 and to inform of its legitimacy. Dated 26 October 1891.
• Letter from Robert K. Douglas, E.W. Bullinger and A.A. Macdonell, Honorary Secretaries, to ask for learned bodies to commit their support for the Congress. Undated.
• Ninth International congress of Orientalists: Notes of Arrangements during the Week.
• Order of Proceedings for Monday September 5th.
• Order of Proceedings for Tuesday September 6th.
• Order of Proceedings for Wednesday September 7th.
• Order of Proceedings for Thursday September 8th.
• Order of Proceedings for Friday September 9th.
• Order of Proceedings for Saturday September 10th.
• Timetable for Excursion to Cambridge on Saturday September 10th. List of Members, 2 copies.
• Supplementary List and Index to List of Members. List of Papers.
• Report of Committee appointed to consider the time and place of the next Congress by Thomas H. Thornton, 9 September 1892. 2 copies.
• A Catalogue of Books Presented to the Congress.
• Address delivered at the Opening of the Congress by Frederick Max Muller, 5 September 1892.
• Address to the Assyrian Section by Professor A.H. Sayce.
• Archaic Greece and the East by the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P., President of the Section for Archaic Greece and the East.
• Higher Education in India: Its Position and Claims by Sir Raymond West, President of the Indian Section.
• Speech of Prof. Kielhorn given at the Dinner in London to the Foreign Members of the Ninth Congress of Orientalists on Monday, the 12th September 1892.
• Pamphlet in Arabic.
• The Ninth International Congress of Orientalists 1892. Pamphlet of report from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society