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of the personal history of Isaiah, to be found elsewhere; and 
as these are numerous, extending backwards to his infancy, 
and are quite consistent with other facts and references in the 
writings of Isaiah, we thus become indirectly indebted to He- 
rodotus for a biography of the chief of the prophets, about 
whose personal history so little has been preserved by the 
Jewish writers, though he really appears to have been one of 
the most extraordinary characters who ever appeared in East- 
ern history. 
Dr. John B. Barker read a paper on the stomach of the 
zebu. 
The Secretary of the Academy announced a donation of 
two copies of a large medal in copper and silver, struck by 
the order of George V., King of Hanover, in honour of Carl 
F. Gauss, and presented to the Academy by order of His 
Majesty, through the Royal Society of Gottingen. 
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