290 JOSHUA RUTLAND, ESQ., ON THE MAORI’S PLACE IN HISTORY. 
There are some green salt-cellars in the British Museum that are 
described as jasper. 
The Babylonians studied astronomy for the purpose of fore- 
telling events, and not for the purpose of navigating the ocean ; 
and their knowledge of it is shown by the fact that they had 
named most of the stars, probably all the stars they could see, and 
it is to them that we owe the present names of the signs of the 
zodiac, and probably of most of the constellations. 
The Cuatrman.—I think I shall be entirely in accord with the 
feeling of the meeting in asking our Secretary to communicate to 
the author our thanks for his very interesting paper. 
The Secrerary.—I should like to ask Dr. Walker what authority 
he has for making brass synonymous with bronze? Certainly 
they are not anything of the kind. 
Rev. F. A. Watker, D.D.—AIl I meant to indicate was that 
the word translated ‘brass,’ in the Holy Scriptures, is really 
bronze. It is not the same amalgam as brass. 
[The meeting then terminated. | 
