ORDINARY MEETING, January 19, 1885. 
A. McArruur, Esq., M.P., V.P., In THE CHAIR. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the fol- 
lowing Elections were announced :— 
Mempers :—W, A. McArthur, Esq., London; J. F, Usher, Esq., M.D,, 
Australia. 
AssociaTEs :—F, Gardiner, Esq., United States; Rev. J. P. Ellwood, 
India. 
Also the presentation to the Library of the following works :— 
“ Metropolitan Water Supply.” By J. Thornhill Harrison, Esq. 
From the same. 
“From Source to Sea.” By W. P. James, Esq., F.LS. o 
atto. 
A Lecture on the “ Historical Evidence of the Abramic Migration ” was 
then delivered by Mr. W. St. C. Boscawen. A brief discussion ensued in 
_ which Mr. Hormuzd Rassam, Mr. Trelawney Saunders, Mr. Tyler, a visitor, 
Mr. W. Griffith, and Mr. Boscawen took part; the meeting was then 
adjourned. 
[Mr. Boscawen’s investigations, when complete, will be laid before the 
Institute in the form of a paper.] 
