PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



OP LIVERPOOL. 



SESSION XXXV. 



MDCCCXLVI. 

 November 30. 



The Rev. J. BOOTH, LL.D., RES., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. William Dixon, Alfred Parr, M.D., and Mr. 

 John Wybergh, Jim., were elected Members of the 

 Society. 



The Society proceeded to fill the vacancy in the Council, 

 caused by the election of Mr. Cunningham to the office 

 of Vice-President ; when Dr. T. Inman was declared duly 

 elected. 



Mr. S. Turner, Vice-President, banded round a volume 

 of the Journal of the Asiatic Society, containing a Paper 

 by Major Rawlinson, on the Cuniform Inscriptions 

 recently discovered at Behistun, in ancient Media; and 

 took the opportunity of calling the attention of the Society 

 to those relating to Darius Hystaspes, &c. 



Mr. Mayer exhibited a specimen of brown diamond, 

 of considerable magnitude, from the recently discovered 

 mines near Bahia. He stated that he found it much harder 

 than the common transparent diamond of commerce, so 

 much so, that no means he had hitherto tried of cutting it 

 succeeded. 



