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ORDINARY MEETING, February 4, 1884. 

 The Rev. R. Thornton, D.T)., Vice-President, in the Chair, 



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

 lowing Elections were announced : — 



Members : — Sir E, Beckett, Bart., Q.C., London ; Eev. C. Brown, M.A. 

 Oxon., Loudon ; Rev, T. Davies, M,A,, Ph.D., London ; Professor J. jNI, 

 Dixon, Japan ; B. Copson Garratt, Esq., London ; Rev. T. W. Lemon, 

 M.A, Oxon, S.C.L., Honiton ; H. A. Trulock Hankin, Esq., London. 



Associates : — A, C. Armstrong, Esq., Jun., United States ; A. E. 

 Bennett, Esq., Warminster ; General J, L. Chamberlain, United States ; 

 Professor 0. Cone, United States ; Professor E. W, Claypole, United 

 States ; J. Eraser, Esq., N. S. "Wales ; Major Guyon, Royal Fusiliers ; Rev, 

 C. F. Knight, M.A., Sheffield ; Rev. J, Langley, M.A., Birmingham ; Rev, 

 W. L. S, Lack Szyrma, M.A. Oxon., Penzance ; Alder Smith, Esq., F.R.C.S., 

 London ; Rev. T. Smith, B.A, Camb., Shipton-on-Stour ; H. S. Vail, Esq., 

 United States ; Miss E. H, Ebbs, Kent ; Miss E, France, London ; Miss 

 M, France, London ; Miss G, Harrison, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 



Hon, Local Secretary. — P. W. Eeinmuth, Esq., Innsbruck. 



Also the presentation of the following works for the library : — 

 Proceedings of the Royal Institution, Royal Geographical Societj', and 

 Sydney Observatory, From the same. " Ecce Terra," by Rev, Dr. Burrs 

 and "Kadesh Barnea," by Rev, Dr, Trumbull, F^'om the Authors. 



The following paper was then read by the Author : — 



NEBUCHADNEZZAR, KING OF BABYLON. B.C. 605— 

 B.C. 562. [On recently-discovered inscrijotions of this 

 King.) Bj Ernest A. Budge, M.A. 



THE excavations carried on in Mesopotamia during the last 

 few years have been productive of especially good 

 results. Not only has Assyrian grammar and lexicography 

 been enriched by magnificent '' finds " of bilingual and 

 grammatical tablets, but a considerable quantity of history 

 has been made known to us through the discovery of cylinders 

 which were inscribed during the latter years of the Babylonian 

 Empire. They are pecuharly valuable, because they are the 

 productions of those who lived at the time when the events 

 happened which they record. Moreover, by means of the 

 numerous contract and loan tablets which are in the collection 

 of our National Museum, a keener insight has been afforded 

 us of the commercial and other affairs of the Babylonian and 



