Excerpt from Oriental Studies: A Selection of the Papers Read Before the Oriental Club of Philadelphia 1888-1894
The Oriental Club, of Philadelphia, was organized April 3Oth, 1888, at an informal meeting held at the house of Mr. Talcott Williams, in response to a circular letter in which those invited "were requested to cooperate in forming an Oriental Society in Philadelphia, that shall bring together those interested in the several fields of Oriental study, for the interchange of ideas, and the encouragement of Oriental research." This invitation, signed Henry Clay Trumbull, Benjamin Smith Lyman, John P. Peters, Morris Jastrow, Jr., Herman V. Hilprecht, Edward W. Hopkins, Talcott Williams and Stewart Culin, was very generally accepted, the following persons being present at the meeting:
Tatsui Baba, Stewart Culin, George Dana Boardman, Joseph F. Garrison, M. W. Easton, Herman V. Hilprecht, J. Reudel Harris, Morris Jastrow, Jr. Edward W. Hopkins, Benj. Smith Lyman, Philip H. Law, Isaac Myer, E. Y. McCauley, R. W. Rogers, John P. Peters, Mayer Sulzberger, John Stronach, Talcott Williams, Henry Clay Trumbull.
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