108 THE EEY. F. A. WALKER^ D.D., F.L.S., ON 



ADDENDA YII. 



AVlien Harmachis prays, '' Let a sign be given and even now to seal 

 my life to the life above." The sign granted, lo and behold ! is the lotus. 



Harmachis disappears from sight of men while initiated into the 

 mysteries of Isis concerning the higher life. The vision he is accorded 

 of the same is soon lost to his view, and the lotus, type of the unseen, 

 vanishes from his hand. Not without signiticance is he named 

 Harmachis (Hor-em-akhu), Horus on the horizon. Like his namesake 

 Horus, the divinity not in full light of the zenith, not surrfiuuded by the 

 middav blaze. 



ADDENDA YII I. 



Eespecting v/tV^c»?c durra, compaie Virg. Gen., S. 7:'. 

 "Ibi flava seres mutatu sidere farra 



The Chairman (D. Howaud, Esq., F.C.S.).— Tt is always- 

 particularly interesting, when those who have the skill, will studj 

 the side-notes of Herodotus, that wonderfully minute observer and 

 accurate reporter. The interest of these little notes on plants is 

 very great, especially throwing so mirch light, as they do, on 

 ancient botany. How it came about that Herodotus stated that 

 wheat and barley were not eaten or Avere not appreciated in 

 Egypt, one does not quite discover, but no doubt he was told so. 

 I believe nowadays it is considered that his Greek injures the 

 correct Attic Greek of the modern school boy ; liappily in my days- 

 Attic Greek was not thought much of, and we were allowed toi'ead 

 Herodotus, to our great enjoyment. 



T. Chaplin, Esq., M.D. — I think I may venture to say that Ave 

 may believe Herodotus Avas not altogether misinformed or mis- 

 taken about the disgrace Avhich attached to the eating of Avlieat 

 and barley. Something of the same kind exists at the present 

 day in Oriental countries. It comes about in this Avay ; Avheat 

 and barley are cultivated by the poor inhabitants of Eastern 



