A large number of international orientalist, authorities on Indic, Semitic, and Chinese studies, will assemble at Harvard on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of next week when the American Oriental Society meets in conjunction with the Second Conference on the Promotion of Chinese Studies under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.

The meetings, the greater majority of which will be open to the public, will be held in the Phillips Brooks House and in the Fogg Art Museum. Morning sessions will start at 9.30 o'clock and the afternoon sessions will begin at 2.30 o'clock.

Over fifty papers, on topics ranging throughout the entire field of Oriental religion, languages and life, will be presented during the sessions. The presidential address, by Professor Franklin Edgerton of Yale, will treat the subject, "The Upani-shads: what do they seek, and why?"

Among the more prominent speakers will be Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, who will speak on Early Indian Architecture; Baron A. Von Stael Holstein of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, who will describe, with illustrations, the Lamaistic Pantheon of 800 Buddhists statuettes which he discovered in the Forbidden City of Pekin: Professor William Hung, also of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, who will discuss the finding of the Nestorian Tablet; Professor Louis Hodous, of the Hartford Seminary Foundation; Dr. Berthold Laufer, of the Field Museum, Chicago; and Professor K.S. Latourette, of Yale University.