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element in the Delta before the time of the Nineteenth dynasty. 
This has been recognised by Dr. Brugsch and by Pierret. 
“M. Naville’s suggestion that these Asiatic immigrations were due 
to the contemporary troubles in Mesopotamia seems to me interest- 
ing and important.” 
The Institute is to be congratulated on having had two such 
papers from its members in one week as the Annual Address 
of Professor Sayce and this paper by M. Naville. The one bearing 
on early Assyrian, the other on early Egyptian, history ; and it is an 
additional gain that they should have been brought together in the 
Transactions of our Society, whose objects, I may add, they both 
further. 
The Prestprent then announced the meeting closed, and the mem- 
bers and their guests adjourned to the Museum, where refreshments 
were served. : 
