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44-. Arbok bins Islenza Fornleifafelags, 1884-85, Reykjavik. 



45. Yahrbiicher der K. K. Central Anstalt fiir Meteorologie unci Erdmag- 



netismus, Wien, 1883. XX. Band. 



46. BuUettino della Sezione Fiorentina della Societa Africana d'ltalia, 



V^olume I., Fascicoli 1, 2, 3, 4. 



Total Foreign, 207 numbers. 



Summary Compared with the Number Received During the Same Period of 



Last Year. 



1884. 1885. 



Canadian. 36 48 and 38 maps. 



United States 75 189 



Great Britain and Ireland . 63 178 



British Colonies, exclusive of Canada 20 23 



Foreign 93 207 



Total 287 645 



Increase 358 



The following were elected members : — F. T. Shutt, B.A., 

 J. H. Cameron, JIA., J. H. McGeary, B.A., Edward Farrar, 

 Esq., W. S. Andrews, Esq., Dion C. Sullivan, LL.B., G. A. 

 Dickson, M.A. 



The President presented the following paper, by Professor 

 Hutton, entitled 



CLASSICAL NOTES. 



In Demosthenes' first speech against Aphobus occur the following 

 words (815) : 



" eig yap rr/v avfijiopiav vTiep k/jtov avverd^avro Kara rag nevre /cat eIkocl fivag 

 TTEvraKoaiag Spa)(^/xag elaoepetv." 



Compare the second speech, 836, 837, 838 • 



" Tp/£(i6va fie rijg av/i/iopidg Karaorr/aag ovk. irrl fiiKpo'ig rifiijixaaiv a/J.' sttI 

 TijXiKoiiToig uare Kara rag Trivre Kal ecKoac fj.vag nevraKoaiag E'ic(p£peiv .... 



ov6e ravra aTvo(paivovreg gf <i)v rifiTjadfitvot rag eca<popag elae<pepe~s 



aXXd nfjv £K ye rfjg olmag Kal ruv TETrdpuv kcll dsKa avSpawdduv Kal ruv rpiuKovra 

 jivuv rfjv Eldipopav ovx olov ri yeviadai roaavrijv, barjv vfiElg awerd^aade npbg rtjv 

 avfifiopiav." 



In all these passages ziatpopa and ziaifiptiv mean not a special 

 property tax and the payment of such, which is their usual meaning, 

 but the taxable value of property and the return of suchjto the com- 

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