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out some ruins near Hazeroth as belonging to a caravan who 
afterwards were lost in the Tih, and never heard of again. 
There was other corroborative evidence to shew that this last 
legend referred to the Israelites. 
November 22, 1869. 
The President (Professor CAYLEY) in the Chair. 
New Fellow elected: 
S. S. Lewis, B.A., Corpus Christi College. 
Communications made to the Society : 
(1) On the Degeneration of Curves. By W. K. Cuir- 
FoRD, M.A., Trinity College. 
(2) On a Machine for solving Equations. By Mr 
J.C. W. Entis. 
(3) The Reptiles of the Kimeridge Clay of Cambridge- 
shire. By Mr H. Szztey, F.G.S. 
To which was added a note on an animal of the Pterodactyle 
kind from the Wealden, which was larger than any known land 
animal. 
February 21, 1870. 
The President (Professor CAYLEY) in the Chair. 
Communications made to the Society :— 
(1) On the Antiquity of some of our familiar Agri- 
cultural Terms. By F. A. Paury, M.A. 
The author pointed out that the digamma sound was still 
retained in English, as for example in our numeral “one;” so 
that this form was more ancient than that of es, which was 
once digammated. He then called attention to the tendency of 
language to reveal primitive forms, and to the fact that agricul- 
tural life was favourable to the preservation of old words. Pro- 
bably many old Aryan words still survive among the peasantry, 
