20 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [Vou IIT. 
The death of Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, the eminent chemist and geologist, 
and author of several valuable works, was announced. Dr. Hunt had 
been for a long time connected with the Canadian Institute as a life 
member, and a copy of his recent work on “Systematic Mineralogy 
based on a Natural classification” had just been received from him as a 
present to the Institute. 
Dr. George Kennedy read a paper by Prof. Campbell, Montreal, on 
“Siberian Inscriptions.” It was not only a review of the volume of in- 
scriptions from the Yenesei published by the Arehzological Society of 
Finland, but an actual attempt to decipher these hitherto unread relics 
of ancient literature by means of more accurate copies obtained by the 
writer from St. Petersburgh. The language they yield is Japanese, and 
it is the contention of Prof. Campbell that the authors of the inscriptions, 
mounds, and other remains of old civilization found throughout Southern 
Siberia were the Japanese in north-eastward migration from India, 
whence some of their own historians have derived them. The samples 
of inscriptions contained in the paper, which was illustrated by fac-simile 
drawings of the documents, plainly betray their origin as the work of 
Buddhist priests, and are dated from the time of Gautama’s death. The 
oldest so far belongs to the fifth century, A.D., and is the memorial of 
Sekata, the Sagoteno of Japanese, and the Shekingtang, or Sheketang, 
of Chinese historians. The inscriptions submitted are but specimens of 
a large number to be published, along with Indian, Buddhist, and Ame- 
rican mound-builder relics, in Prof. Campbell’s forthcoming work, “ The 
Eastern Track of the Hittites.” Should his readings stand the test of 
criticism the light they will shed upon the history of the Khitan dynasty 
of China and of the peopling of north-eastern Asia and the western coast 
of America will open up a record of novel and absorbing interest. 
Mr. Harvey said that the true opinion according to the best authorities 
was that the Etruscan people were subject to the Kabyle race. The 
Kabyles had ruled over Etruria for a couple of centuries. The language 
of the Etruscan inscriptions was taken from the Kabyle country. Prof. 
Campbell would have to reckon with these authorities. The Accadians 
were Mongols and had attained a very high civilization. 
FOURTEENTH MEEMING, 
Fourteenth Meeting, 20th February, 1892, the President in the chair. 
Donations and Exchanges since last meeting, 92. 
The following resolution was adopted :— 
