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Ordinary Meeting, April 2nd, 1861. 

 J. P. Joule, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 

 Mr. John Parry and Mr. Thomas Carrick were appointed 

 Auditors of the Treasurer's accounts for the present Session. 



M. Durand Fardel, M.D., was elected a Corresponding 

 Member. 



Messrs. Henry Brogden, John Thomas Hobson, Ph.D., 

 William Alexander Cunningham, and George Robert Hay- 

 wood, were elected Ordinary Members. 



Mr. T. T. Wilkinson, F.R.A.S., exhibited an Amulet, 

 which, having been worn by an African chief who was 

 captured in war about a century ago, had been recently 

 examined, when it was found that the centre boss of about 

 an inch and a half diameter contained an Arabic manuscript, 

 the translation of which, kindly undertaken by Professor 

 Theodores, is as follows : — 



" In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate ; 

 may God favor our* master Mohammad! With God (is) a 

 protection from Satan, the accursed ; with the perfect words 

 of God a protection from evil for all that He has created, 

 planted, and raised; with God (is) protection from the evil 

 eye, and the evil mouth, and the evil foe, and the evil enmity, 

 and the evil neighbour, and the evil neighbourhood, and the 

 agitations of the night, and the agitations of the day, all of 

 them, O Lord of Worlds ! God ! No God (exists) but He ! 

 The Living, the Everlasting ! Neither sleep overtakes Him, 

 nor slumber ; His (is) what is in heaven and on earth ; which 

 of these can intercede with Him, unless by leave from Him ? 

 He knows what is before them, and what behind them ; but 

 they comprehend nothing of His knowledge, except in so far 

 as He pleases. He extended His throne over the heavens and 

 the earth, and on Him weighs not the watchfulness over them ; 

 Proceedings— Lit. & Phil. Society— No. 12.— Session, 1860-61. 



