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ORDINARY MEETING, January 7, 1884. 



H. Cabman Jones, Esq., M.A., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the fol- 

 lowing Elections were announced : — 



Membei'.s : — Rev. S. H. Buchanan. D.D., United States ; E. Burton, 

 Es([., N. S. Wales ; G. A. Spottiswoode, Esq., London, 



Life Associates :— R. J. Finnemore, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S., Natal ; Rev. 

 G. H. W. Lockhart-Ross, B.A., Sudbury. 



Associates :— The Right Rev. the Bishop of Tuam, Ireland; the Ven. 

 Archdeacon P. Teulon Beamish, D.D., LL.D., Victoria ; Rev. D. N. Beach, 

 United States ; Rev. E. Chichester, B.A. Camb., Dorking ; Rev. B. 0. 

 Young, Birmingham. 



Hon. Local Secretaries : — Rev. F. A. Allen, London ; C. S. Eby, Esq., 

 Japan ; Rev. F. R. Young, Reading. 



The following paper was then read by the Author :— 



THE CUNEIFORM mSGRIPTIONS AND THE ERA OF 

 THE JEWISH CAPTIVITY. (B.C. G05-538.) By 

 W. St. Chad Boscawen. 



'' rnHE Jewish captivity," writes the late Emanuel Deutsch, 

 I " was one of the most mysterious and momentous 

 periods in the history of humanity. AVhat were the 

 influences brought to bear upon the captives during that time 

 we know not. But this we know, that from a lawless, reck- 

 less, godless populace, they returned transformed into a band 

 of Puritans.^'* The people who had so often and so easily 

 yielded to the seductions of the rites of Baal and Ashtoreth, — 

 a people so rebeUious as to call forth the rebuke, " This is a 



* Literary Remains of Emnnuel Deutsch, " Essay on thoTalumd," p. 1-2. 



