20 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Four hundred and forty-eighth meeting. 



February 9, 1858. — Monthly Meeting. 



The Academy met at the house of the Rev. Dr. Frothingham. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters, from E. B. Elliott, 

 accepting Fellowship ; from the Royal Institution of Great 

 Britain, November 18, 1857, and the Geological Society of 

 London, December 3, 1857, acknowledging the receipt of the 

 Academy's publications. 



Mr. Folsom exhibited to the Academy a copy of an ancient 

 inscription obtained by him at Susa, on the north coast of 

 Africa, some years since. The block bearing the inscription 

 was placed in the corner of a shed-like building, and was 

 probably the pedestal of a statue. The inscription is as 

 follows : — 



L-TERENTIOAQVI 



LAEGRATTIANO 



QVAESTORIPRO 



VINCIAEAFRICAE 



AMICIOBPAREM 



IN VNI VERSOS ATQVE 



TALEMETPROPRI 



VMINSINGVLOS 



HONOREM 



L. Terentio Aqui- 



laB Grattiano 



Quaestori Pro- 



vinciae Africae 



Amici ob parem 



in universes atque 



talem et propri- 



um in singulos 



honorera. 



The exact signification of this inscription was commented 

 on by several gentlemen, and its obscurity noticed. Professor 

 Torrey suggested the word aeqvitatem for the words atqve 

 TALEM, as a reading which clears up the sense ; Mr. Folsom 

 having spoken of the inscription as being made out with 

 difficulty, thus leaving room for the possibility of an error in 

 copying. 



Dr. W. F. Channing exhibited specimens of lithographs 

 made by means of a new application of photography. The 

 process is known as Photo-lithography, and consists in re- 

 ceiving upon a prepared lithographic stone the image of the 



