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of the pronoun of the first person ani, literally ‘my person.’ 
In this instance the noun has a masculineform. More frequently 
however, the ¢ of the feminine gender is added, and also the 
u which forms the nominative case in Assyrian. Of this nature 
are the Assyrian attwa for @ntua, and the plural attunt; and 
also the Coptic antok, antov, antos, antéten, &c. 
««The form anakhnu is supposed to consist of the verbal 
root, a noun, and the possessive affix for ‘our.’ It is literally 
‘ Here is our company.’ 
‘“<'The pronouns of the third person are used also for the 
remote demonstrative ; the person spoken of being supposed to 
be away, while the speaker and the person spoken to are pre- 
sent to one another. ‘The Assyrian forms of these pronouns 
resemble the Gothic and Sanskrit, as the Hebrew and Arabic 
forms resemble the Greek and the Zend. 
‘It is observed that the Assyrian pronouns andku and 
atta have the precise forms of the corresponding persons of a 
tense of the verb, which denotes state, or permanent or habi- 
tual action. The forms of this tense belonging to the third 
person, on the contrary, do not terminate with the pronouns of 
that person, or in the same manner with them.” 
The Rey. Chas. Graves, D. D., read a paper on the prin- 
ciples which regulate the interchange of ma in certain 
symbolic equations. 
Sir W. R. Hamilton read a paper on some extensions of 
quaternions :— 
‘* Besides some general remarks on associative polynomes, 
and on some extensions of the modular property, Sir W. R. 
Hamilton remarked that if, in the quadrinominal expression 
Q=wiwmt+ nyt rz, 
the laws of the symbols «A be determined by the following 
formula of vector-multiplication, 
