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Bull and the Lion (the signs of the ancient vernal equinox 

 and summer solstice), by the Sabrean nations, confirms more 

 strongly than almost any other proof the dispersion of man- 

 kind from a common country, and that country the one which 

 Scripture points out — ^the region of Assyria — meanwhile the 

 firm conviction that in these monuments we possess the me- 

 morials of the earliest equinoctial and solstitial points, — the 

 remarkable fact, that not one single sculptured monument has 

 placed the solar orb upon the head of any sign which might 

 proclaim a date anterior to that assigned by Moses for the 

 creation of the world — must ever remain, to my mind, a 

 strong corroboration of the sacred narrative. 



Fourth Meeting — November 26, 1849. 

 J. B. YATES, Esq., in the Chair. 



Thomas Nuttall, Esq., F.L.S., and the Rev. Thomas 

 CoRSEE, M.A., were elected corresponding members of the 

 Society. 



The following donations were announced : — 



Proceedings of the Ashmolean Society of Oxford : from 



the Society. 

 Proceedings of the London Botanical Society : from tlje 



Society. 

 Proceedings of the Warvnckshire Natural History 



Society : from the Society. 

 Essay on Meteorology: from the Ipswich Literary 



Society. 

 Plattner on the Blowpipe, translated by Dr. James 8. 



Muspratt : from the Editor. 



