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ORDINARY MEETING, May 3, 1886. 

 Rev. W. Weight, D.D., in the Chair. 



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

 following paper was read by Mr. W. St. Chad Boscawen, F.R.Hist.Soc, 

 the author being unavoidably absent in Egypt on an exploring expedition. 



Mr. Boscawen said : Those who have not studied the subject will desire 

 to know where the names to which tbo paper rektes were found. In 1872, 

 M. Mariette was excavating in the Temple of Karnak, endeavouring to clear 

 it out as thoroughly as possible in order to obtain the plan, which he was so 

 successful in getting, and with which he has illustrated his great work on 

 Karnak. In clearing the great gateway of the Temple, which was known 

 to have been built by Thothmes III., he excavated to the depth of several 

 feet, and found a list of names extended right down to the foot of the pylon. 

 The inscriptions, which were published by him in a separate part of his work 

 on Karnak, consisted of several hundreds of geographical names of cities in 

 Syria, Palestine, and Nubia. Since that time M. Maspero, who has succeeded 

 M. Mariette as director of the explorations in Egypt, has gone over these 

 names very carefully. Of course, in no study more than that of Egyptology 

 is the old proverb that " two heads are better than one " better exemplified, 

 especially in connexion with the work of copying inscriptions. There are 

 very few inscriptions of which we do not obtain a better copy when a second 

 person has gone over them. The result is, therefore, that in M. Maspero's 

 copy we have an improvement on that of M. Mariette, and I think that the 

 long study M. Maspero has given to the work makes his paper very important. 



SUB LES NOMS GE0GEAPHIQUE8 DE LA LT8TE BE 

 TE0UT2I0S III. QU'ON FEUT BAPPORTER A LA 

 GALILEE. By G. Maspero. 



TE n'ai rien a dire des deux premiers numeros de la li.ste; 



sinon que M ^ Qodsliou est pour moi la Qodshou de 



I'Oronte, non pas la Kadesli de Neph.tali,* et que, malgre Fauto- 



ritede Conder,-|- je place ^\ ,^ \ Magidi,a Lejjun, au pied 



du Carmel. Pour trouver eusuite un nom dont Pidentification 



soit certaine, il faut descendre jusqu'au No. 9: c y^ jiH']'^ \k 



Doutina, est certairiement la Dotha'in de la Genese (xxxvii. 17) 



yiy^) pour laquelle le second livre des Rois (vi. 13) no' 



i881, 



* Mariette, Les Listes geofjraphiques des Pylones de Kariiak, pp. 1? 

 + Palestine Exploration Fund, 1«81, pp. 86-88, 232-234, 319-3^ 



