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states.   A member of the Committee learned of a collection numbering, it is said, 160 Persian and Arabic MSS., formed by the late William B. Hodgson.   They were traced to the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences in Savannah, Ga.  and after some correspondence the Trustees of that Institution passed a resolution authorizing the Director to forward the MSS. to the Smithsonian Institution on deposit, for study.
   Mr. Talcott Williams of Philadelphia while on a tour through Morocco undertook to make a collection for the Museum.   Among the objects thus acquired are many illustrating the manners and customs of the inhabitants of that country.
   The preparation of the Smithsonian Report on the Progress of Oriental Science in America during 1888, necessitated correspondence with many of the Orientalists of the United States, resulting in useful additions to the Sectional Library.

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   Through the good offices of the Hon. Oscar S.Strauss Ex. U.S.Minister to Turkey, and the courtesy of Prof. Howard Osgood of Rochester N.Y., the Museum has come into possession of a cast of the famous Temple inscription  discovered by the French archaeologist, Clermont-Ganneau, May 26th 1871, and now in the Imperial Museum at Constantinople.   The inscrip-