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On Tuesday next at 12 o' clock it will be pro-
posed n Convocation to confer the degree of
M.A. by Diploma on Henry Albert Schultens
Esqr. Gentleman-Commoner of Wadham College
(grandson of the celebrated Albert Schultens,
and son of the present Professor of Arabic
& Divinity in the University of Leyden) on
account of his great knowledge of the Eastern
languages; which he has shewn in two late
publications -- the one entitled Elnawa big [?]
sive Anthologia sententiarum Arabicarum:
which ^a work he has printed in the Original,
translated into Latin, & illustrated with a
commentary -- the other entitled Specimen
Proverbiorum Midanii: the whole of
whose ^which Collection (consisting of Six Thousand
proverbs) he intends publishing in Arabic
& Latin with all convenient speed, together
with Various Lections & Notes.