EVIDENCES OP THE MIGRATION OP ABRAM. 137 



Southern Babylonia also. Kudur-Mabuj? will have been a younger brotlier 

 of Kudur-Lagamar, who reigned over Yavutbal (Yatbur) on the eastern 

 frontier of Khalda3a, while Kudur-Nakhunte was the contemporary 

 sovereign of Shushan, 



Letters were also received from Professors T. K. Cheyne, D.D., and S, D. 

 Peet, of the United States, remarking on the value of the paper, and the 

 great need of further exploration ; and it is hoped that the remarks of the 

 latter may be amplified and given to the Institute in the form of a paper. 



The following letter was received from the Eev, H. G. Tomkins : — 



" Park Lodge, AVeston-super-Mare. 

 "January 1, 1885. 



" Mr. Boscawen's paper on the Abramic Migration is highly interesting, 

 and I regret that I cannot be i^resent when it will be read. 



" In a paper which I submitted to the Institute in April, 1877, and in a 

 book entitled Studies on the Times of Abraham, I dealt with this great 

 subject. Afterwards I was delighted to find a very remarkable agreement 

 between the results of my inquiries and those of the Abbe Vigoroux in the 

 early part of his now famous work. La Bible et les Dccouvertes Moderncs, of 

 which a fourth and enlarged edition appeared last year. 



" Mr. Boscawen has added material and argument of a valuable kind to 

 those already available in support of the historic character of the narrative, 

 and especially has established the very early and influential existence of a 

 dominant Semitic power in the plain of the Euphrates, and shown its bearing 

 on the conditions of Abraham's life. 



" 1 hope the genenJ relations of his paper to the great historic field will be 

 duly and vividly shown in discussion on the subject ; and I feel sure this will 

 be so, since I know that my friend Professor Sayce, as well as Mr. Budge, 

 has devoted attention to its elucidation. 



" One thing requires constant advocacy, namelj^ the urgent need of well- 

 directed excavations in the great city-mounds of Western Asia. Doubtless 

 the ancient Kharran would yield rich spoil, as Mr. Boscawen suggests, and 

 give us connecting links with the great Hittite land across the Euphrates, 

 in the Western track of the father of the faithful. 



"The list of very early Semitic proper names (p. 110) is worthy of close 

 attention. May 1 be allowed to refer to a paper of my own in the Trans- 

 actions of the Institute some years ago, " Oh Biblical Proper Names,'" in the 

 hope that it may yet be of some use in stimulating the minds of students ? 



" Pardon a very trivial note from a busy man on New Year's Day, and with 

 the most earnest good wishes for a good New Year to the Victoria Institute, 

 I remain," &c. 



Also a letter from the Eev. Dr. Alfred Edersheim, in which the writer says 

 " I may be allowed to express my high appreciation of a paper, which is not 

 only full of interest, but the outcome of such extensive acquaintance with 

 the subject." 



And a letter from Professor Howard Osgood, of the United States, saying, 

 "I have seen nothing in the paper deserving of adverse criticism ; and I 

 desire to express my great indebtedness to Mr. Boscawen."' 



