oo. 
The President, under his hand and seal, nominated the 
following Vice-Presidents for the current year: 
Rev. C. W. Wall, D. D., Vice-Provost, T. C. D. 
John Anster, LL. D. 
James Apjohn, M. D. 
Rey. Humphrey Lloyd, D. D. 
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Rey. Charles Graves read a communication from Edward 
J. Cooper, Esq., on comets. 
Rey. Samuel Butcher read a paper by the Rev. Francis 
Crawford, on the connexion between certain terminations of 
words in the Hebrew and in different Indo-European lan- 
guages. 7 
The author has long been of opinion that a close connexion 
exists between Hebrew and the Indo-European family of lan- 
guages ; and that this connexion is not confined to the radical 
elements of these languages, but extends also to the formative 
elements. The object of the present paper is to exhibit some 
instances of the affinity which he has found to exist between 
the latter. 
He first notices the class of stem-words formed by add- 
ing to the original root, or some other stem, the iqae I pre- 
ceded by a vowel. 
Thus, in Latin, we have 
ag-il-is, from ag-o. 
doc-il-is, 5, doc-eo. 
fac-il-is, ,, fac-io. 
jid-el-is, 4, _fid-es. 
ann-al-is, 5, ann-us. 
In Latin the vowel which precedes / is a, e, or? In 
Greek the same mode of formation is found, but the vowel is 
more generally a; thus: 
