ORDINARY MEETING.* 

 Professor E. Hull, LL.D., F.R.S., in the Chair. 



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

 following Elections were announced :— 



Associates : — The Eight Rev. Bishop Wilson, D.D., Melanesia ; Major- 

 General A. B. Tulloch, C.B., C.M.G. ; Rev. J. L. Darling, M.A., 

 Ireland ; Rev. W. H. Seddon, M.A., Middlesex ; Professor H. V. 

 Hilprecht, Ph.D., D.D., United States. 



The following paper was read by the author : — 



PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA BY THE ISRAELITES. 

 By Major-Geueral TULLOCH, C.B., C.M.G. (With 

 Map.) 



MILITARY operations even in remote ages, provided 

 fairly authentic accounts of them are available, are 

 always interesting. 1 therefore venture to submit for critical 

 consideration a march which took place some three thousand 

 years ago, and although the narrative of it has been con- 

 stantly read for many hundred years, the truth of that state- 

 ment has always been received either with doubt or else 

 conveniently placed beyond criticism by labelling the whole 

 affair as inexplicable : 1 refer to the Exodus of the Israelites 

 from Egypt. 



My notes on the subject would hardly be worth consider- 

 ation from a military point of view, but the matter has lately 

 been referred to, and as there are now many thoroughly 

 professional soldiers in Egypt, some of whom might be glad 

 of an opportunity for further examination of the country 

 where the march took place, this study of the Exodus may 

 not be thought unworthy of consideration. 



Some years ago (January and February, 1882) I was 

 engaged in making a military report on the Suez Canal, in 

 which it was necessary to investigate the possibility of the 



* liJth of 30th Session. 



