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Discussion. Remarks bv Prof. E. Hull, LL.D., F.L.S., 



AND OTHERS .... .... .... .... .... ... .... b'7 



Communications Received 72 



Author's Final Reply ... 82 



Meeting 84 



Meeting .... ... .... .... .... ... .... 85 



On Serpent-Worship and on the Venomous Snakes of India 

 and the Mortality caused by Them. By Sir Joseph 

 Fayrer, K.C.S.I., LL.D., M.D., F.R.S Illustrated 85 



Discussion. Remarks by Sir Richard Pollock, K.C.S.I., 

 Surgeons-General Beatson, Cornish, CLE., C. A. 

 Gordon, C.B., Q.H.P., Admiral Grant, C.B., and others 



Special Communication from Dr. Augustus Mueller, of 

 Yackandandah, Victoria, on Snake Poisoning, and his 

 Researches to obtain an Antidote 116 



Note .... 121 



Meeting 123 



King Gcdea .... .... .... .... Illustration 123 



Paper " On Some of the Recent Discoveries in the Realm of 

 assyriology, with special reference to the private llfe 

 of the Babylonians." By Theo. G. Pinches, Esq., of the 

 Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British 

 Museum ... 123 



Akkadian and Semitic Types Illustration 128 



Appendix. Akkadian Documents with the Texts Discovered 



by Mr. Hormuzd Rassam 149 



Discussion. Remarks by Mr. W. St. C. Boscawen, M. 



Bertin, Rev. W. St. C. Tisdall, M.A., and others .... 171 



Communications. From Major C. R. Conder, R.E., D.C.L., &c 177 



Author's Final Reply 184 



Meeting 185 



Paper " On the Philosophical Basis of the Argument from 

 Design." Br the Rev. J. H. Bernard, D D., Archbishop 

 King's Lecturer, Trinity Cull., Dublin 185 



