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hope that he may have the help, health, and energy to follow up his 
researches, and that we, the British public, will provide him 
liberally, without stint, with the means to go on. I say this 
because I have too often seen, with extreme regret, the manner in 
which the public of this country take up a thing, and then drop it 
when half finished, in contradistinction to the extraordinary per- 
severance of the German people, for when they make excava- 
tions they do them thoroughly. Let us try to show the same 
dogged perseverance, and go on with these Egyptian discoveries 
(cheers). 
Mr. Recinatp Sruart Poorz, LL.D.—I have been extremely 
gratified by this paper, which is the best justification, if it were 
needed, of the work of M. Naville. It is not only a learned paper, 
but the most cautious one I have ever heard from a learned dis- 
coverer, and herein hes M. Naville’s great merit,—he never takes 
you beyond where he can safely go. All I can add with reference 
to the paper is, that with all that M. Naville has said I 
cordially agree, and where I have, unfortunately, differed 
from him I am perfectly sure that he is right and I am wrong. 
As to the places where the monuments he has discovered have 
gone to, I think I ought to say that the Americans contributed, 
last year, £1,000 towards the Egyptian Exploration Fund, and 
England £1,100. The arrangements made were to give the artistic 
monuments to the, Art Museum at Boston and to retain the 
historical ones ourselves; for, although we gave £1,100, and 
were supported by a strong committee, with names lke my 
colleague amongst them, they had only an able secretary, Dr. 
Schhemann, and they trusted their £1,000 to us without any 
conditions whatever. It was very hard to send away what we did, 
but, under the circumstances, we could not do otherwise. I am ex- 
ceedingly gratified that the fine statue referred to by M. Naville in 
his paper has been given, with great heartiness, to his native place. 
With great satisfaction he will set up that monument in his native 
town, which will record what an eminent archeologist has done for 
England and other countries (applause). 
Mr. W. Sr. C. Boscawen (F'.R.Hist.Soc.).—The paper that has 
been read this evening is one of particular interest, for by it 
M. Naville has done a great deal to weld together two of the oldest 
civilisations in the world. More than ten years ago I expressed in 
the rooms of this Institute the opinion that we should find that the 
Hlamite invasion of Babylonia was an element exercising con- 
