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The Cuarrman.—If there are any other remarks to be made we 
shall be very glad to hear them. 
A letter has reached us which was to be read. We rather 
wish it had been typed, as it is rather difficult to read without 
preliminary examination. 
The Secretary.—The letter in question is from the Rey. Dr. 
Walker, who, I am sorry to say, is laid up by illness. He takes 
great interest in the subject, and he has sent us a long communi- 
cation, but from my ignorance of this particular subject I cannot 
read it without great difficulty, which would take up much of 
your time. 
I would humbly suggest that those who send in communications 
should kindly get them typed. It is a simple and cheap process, 
and makes communications absolntely as legible as if they were 
printed. 
Mr. Pincues.—I do not think I have much to say in reply. 
Naturally, not being the author of the paper, I cannot speak of 
its contents as I should like to do. I have not been to the part 
to which he refers, and which he has visited; and unfortunately 
I have not had time enough to read certain books on the subject 
which I should have liked to do, especially that by M. Chantre, 
to whom I have referred, who has written a very important 
work upon it, but it is rather too voluminous to master in a short 
time, especially when one has other occupations. Then, I believe, 
Ramsay has been there and has written about it, but I am not 
quite certain on that point. | 
There are one or two points that have been mentioned by 
Mr. Rouse to which I think I might refer. First as to the double- 
headed eagle. It is a very remarkable thing that that eagle, 
which is found on a great many monuments of Hittite origin, has 
its counterpart on a statue which is rather far from the Turki, 
and which was the centre of Hittite civilization, viz., the ancient 
Babylonian city of Lagash. From that place a large number of 
very important antiquities have been, as will be remembered by 
many, obtained by the French Government, and on some of the 
sculptures the double-headed eagle is shown. 
I have also been studying, for the last year or so, a very 
important collection of Babylonian tablets from that spot, viz., 
Lagash—now Tel-lo—belonging to Loid Amherst of Hackney, 
and I have paid special attention to the mutilated cylinder seals: 
