Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . the Rev. John Long,formerly of Calcutta, on The Aryan Race, itsOrigin in Central Asia, and its Emigration to 712 EUSSIA. Europe and India; besides other papers onsubjects of less general interest. General dis-cussions were held on the special codes of lawsdictated by the founders of the nomad em-pires in Central Asia; as to whether or not aMongol tribe or people existed before GenghisKhan; on the origin of the Turkish manu-scripts in the so-called Vigur character; onthe Central Asiatic calendars, and their rela-tion
Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . the Rev. John Long,formerly of Calcutta, on The Aryan Race, itsOrigin in Central Asia, and its Emigration to 712 EUSSIA. Europe and India; besides other papers onsubjects of less general interest. General dis-cussions were held on the special codes of lawsdictated by the founders of the nomad em-pires in Central Asia; as to whether or not aMongol tribe or people existed before GenghisKhan; on the origin of the Turkish manu-scripts in the so-called Vigur character; onthe Central Asiatic calendars, and their rela-tions to Chinese and Persian records; and onthe Sogdian character and monuments. In the Caucasian section (3), M. GamarofFpresiding, Prof. Gregorieff made an address onthe Caucasian race and its origin, and M. Ber-ger described several ethnographical objectswhich were exhibited in the Caucasian collec-tion on view in the rooms of the Ministry ofthe Interior. In the seventh section (Turkey), AhmedVefyk presiding, papers were read, or re-marks made, on The Ancient History of the. ?WTNTEB PALACE, ST. PETEESBUEG. Slavs, by M. Harkary; on The Khazars,byM. Ho worth; on The Present State of PopularEducation in Siberia, by M. Mourkos; andon certain special works pertaining to Arabianliterature and history. Ahmed Vefyk Effendispoke on the question, How far the mutualrelations of the Arabic tribes before Moham-med threw light on the political state of theIsraelitish tribes at the time of the Judges. In the fifth section (Eastern Asia), Prof. Leonde Rosny presiding, papers were read by on Japanese History and Tradition,in which he placed the beginning of the histor-ical period of Japan at about 600 years b. o. ; byProf, de Rosny, on The Possibility of recon-structing the Chinese Language as spoken dur-ing the Han Dynasty, or even previous to thatPeriod; by M. Vassilieff, on The ChineseLanguage, its Ideographs, etc. Prof, de Rosnyspoke of the theory of the discovery of Amer-ica by th
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