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spect also to the author’s Median Alphabet, as given in the 
same paper, he now makes a few slight corrections, which, 
however, do not affect the general views there stated regarding 
that language. Dr. Hincks further gives a Babylonian alpha- 
bet or syllabary, exhibiting the values of sixty-five characters 
of the third Persepolitan writing, and of one hundred and 
twenty-eight of the Babylonian lapidary characters: placing 
the Babylonian characters in juxtaposition with the corres- 
ponding Persepolitan ones. He adds an analysis of fourteen 
proper names written in the latter character, and of two in the 
former; and he points out the mode of reading them in the 
different forms under which they appear in the inscriptions. 
Dr. Hincks moreover states, that, with the exception of a few 
letters, to which correct values had been assigned by Professor 
Grotefend, and a few others to which the same author had 
approximated, nothing in the right direction had hitherto been 
published concerning these two last-mentioned kinds of writing. 
The Rev. Charles Graves read a paper on the date of the 
manuscript commonly called the Book of Armagh.* 
Shortly after the Book of Armagh had been deposited in 
the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, Mr. Graves ob- 
served, on a careful examination, that numerous erasures had 
been made in it. These occur at the end of the following 
writings contained in the volume: 
1. The Confession of St. Patrick, fol. 24, d. 
2. The Gospel of St. Matthew, fol. 52, db. 
3. The Gospel of St. Mark, fol. 67, 0. 
4, The Gospel of St. Luke, fol. 89, d. 
5. The Revelation of St. John, fol. 170, a. 
6. The Acts of the Apostles, fol. 190, a. 
7. The second Book of the Life of St. Martin of Tours, 
fol. 214, a. 
8. A letter of Sulpicius Severus, fol. 220, a. 
* For an account of this manuscript see Transactions, vol. xx. p. 329. 
