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2. An attempt to illustrate the remaining Monuments of 

 the Ancient Etruscan Language. By the Rev. John 

 Williams, A.M., F.R.S.Ed. 



The principal object of tliis paper was to defend sonie interpre- 

 tations of words in the ancient language of Etruria, proposed by 

 Lanzi, and attacked by Niebulir ; as well as to point out some new 

 analogies with other dialects. The languages which the author 

 proposes particularly to call to his assistance are, Greek, Latin, 

 Anglo-Saxon, and Cambrian or Wt- Ish. The paper concluded with 

 an application of these aids to a variety of words in the Etruscan 

 language. 



March 4. 



Sir THOMAS MAKDOUGALL BRISBANE, 

 President, in the Chair. 



The following Donations were presented : — 



A Brief Inquiry into the State and Prospects of India. — From 

 William Blackwood, Esq., Bookseller. 



Essays by the late Robert Hamilton, LL.D., Professor of Mathe- 

 matics in the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen. 

 — From Alexander Thomson, Esq. of Banchory. 



Principes de Philosophic Zoologique. Par M. Geoffrey Saint- 

 Hilaire. — From the Author. 



Tableau de I'Hyoide dans les Quatre Classes des Animaux Ver- 

 tebres. Par M. Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire. — From the Author. 



The following communication was read : — 



On the Gradual Elevation of Land in High Northern 

 Latitudes. By J. F. W. Johnston, Esq., F.R.S.Ed. 



In this paper, the author shewed, by a number of phenomena 

 observable within the coasts of Sweden, chiefly around Stockholm, 

 and on the shores of the Lake Macler and its arms, that the con- 

 clusion of the Swedish surveyors in 1821, that a change of the re- 

 lative level of the land and water along the coasts of the Baltic had 

 in many localities taken place, could not reasonably be disputed. 



