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with an account of a meeting held in that city for the purpose of 
advocating the opening of museums to the public on Sunday. A 
resolution in its favor, advocated by Lord Rosebery, was carried ; 
sundry bishops of the Established Church of England asserting that 
they could see no harm to religion in so doing. Surely, when such a_ 
progressive movement meets the approval of dignitaries high in the 
church, laymen may be pardoned for seeing nothing reprehensible in 
the matter. Are not the works of the Creator as worthy of study as 
translations of Jewish manuscripts, by men whose ignorance of the 
Hebrew and Greek languages we may suspect, when we are informed 
by modern scholars that nearly one thousand errors may be detected 
in the English version of the Bible alone (unrevised edition). No 
doubt it would be wrong and exceedingly unjust to deprive the usual 
employees of the onze day of rest to which they are clearly entitled, 
but arrangements may be made which would render this objection 
of little consequence. As I have already mentioned, unfortunately 
or otherwise, we are not prepared for a move in this direction yet. 
ADDITIONAL NOTES. 
The recent discoveries of Sir William Dawson in the erect tree 
stumps of the coal measures, Nova Scotia, may have escaped the 
notice of the members of the section. The organic remains were 
submitted to Professor Scudder for examination, who recognized 
the following, viz.: Amphibians, twelve species ; Land Snails, three 
species ; Millepedes, eight species; Scorpions, three species ; In- 
sect, one species. 
Celts and thety Relics. Since the paper on this subject was 
published, attention has been called to several points not touched 
upon. The omission regarding the Sythic origin of the race was quite 
accidental. I was perfectly aware of the fact of what Major Rawlinson, 
the celebrated cuneiform Assyrian scholar, had stated, with 
regard to the Khorsabad inscriptions of the introduction of a strong 
Sythic element at this period into the population of Central and 
Western Asia. He showed that the Sacz (Syths) were always 
named Tsimiri by the Babylonians and Assyrians—that these were 
to be found in every province of the empire constituting the militia 
of the kingdom. Major Rawlinson observed that these nomad tribes 
included Celts, Slavonians, Teutons. The Zimri, of Jeremiah, 
referred to the same tribe. The ancient Britons even now call 
