ORDINARY MEETING.* 

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



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

 following Elections took place : — 



Members :— Rev. Professor Milton G. Evans, A.M., D.D., United States 

 Eev. C. H. W. Johns, M.A., Camb., Cambridge. 



Associate : — E. Anderson, Esq., C.B., LL,D., London. 



The following subject was then taken up by the author : — 



CERTAIX IXSCBIPTIOXS A XI) RECORDS REFER- 

 RJXG TO BABYLOXIA AXD EL AM AXI> 

 THEIR RULERS, AXB OTHER MATTERS. By 

 Theophilus G. Pin'ches. M.R.A.S. 



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I. — The Earthly Paradise. 



IHE question of the position of the Garden of Eden is 

 X an attractive theme that will always, in all probability, 

 find exponents to come forward with their ideas upon the 

 subject, and far be it from me to find fault with any of them 

 — there are probably but few that do not help the cause of 

 science, either directly or indirectly. It is not with any 

 new theoiy, however, that I now come to you — there is 

 little or no fresh material for that. What I now refer to is 

 the Babylonian idea of the position of Paradise, and 

 wherein it ao-rees with, or differs from the Bibhcal account. 



* January 20, 3rd meeting of Session 1S96. — The investigation of the 

 subject taken up at this Meeting has been delayed on account of the 

 visual difficulties attendant on critical research among Babylonian records. 

 The study of the texts was ended, so far, and the matter passed for press 

 October 1, 1897, see also p. 90. — Ed. 



