American Oriental Society.

The American Oriental Society will hold its annual meeting at Columbia College in New York city, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 29, 30 and 31. This society was founded in 1842, and had its first meeting at Harvard.

Papers have been announced by the following Harvard members. Professor Lanman; An incident in the life of the illustrius Chinese Buddhist monk, Fa-hien. Professor Lyon; The recently discovered tablet of Raman-nirari. Mr. F. D. Chester; Ibrahim al-Mausuli: coincident traditions in the Kitab al-Agani, At-Tabari, and the Thousand and One Nights. Professor Toy; Foreign words in the Koran.