113 
Monpay, 26TH JUNE, 1854. 
THOMAS ROMNEY ROBINSON, D.D., PResipEnt, 
in the Chair. 
His Excellency the Earl of St. Germans, Lord Lieutenant of 
Ireland, attended the meeting. 
The President communicated an outline of the second part 
of his paper on the properties of electro-magnets. 
The Rey. Dr. Todd exhibited a large collection of gold 
ornaments recently found in the county of Clare, and made some 
remarks on the gold ornaments of the ancient Celts, Gauls, 
and Danes. 
The Secretary read a paper by the Rev. Edward Hincks, 
D.D., on the personal pronouns of the Assyrian and other 
languages, especially Hebrew :— 
‘«‘ According to the views maintained in this paper, the so- 
called pronouns of the Hebrew-Assyrian family of languages, 
belonging to the first and second persons, are of very different 
classes. 
<¢ Some of them consist of a verbal root an, to which the 
real pronouns are attached ; which real pronouns are radically 
the same as the corresponding pronouns of the Indo-European 
languages. Thus, the Assyrian andku, Hebrew anoki, Arabic 
ana, and Coptic anoh, is literally ‘Here I am.’ Of the same 
nature are the Assyrian and Hebrew atta, of which the primi- 
tive form anta is preserved in Arabic; and the feminine and 
plural forms of the second person. 
*‘ Other so-called pronouns consist of a noun with a pos- 
sessive affix attached to it. Such is the second Hebrew form 
VOL. VI. K 
