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The President, under his hand and seal, nominated the 

 following Vice-Presidents for the current year : 



Eev. C. W. Wall, D. D., Vice-Provost, T. C. D. 



John Anster, LL. D. 



James Apjohn, M. D. 



Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, D. D. 



Rev. Charles Graves read a communication from Edward 

 J . Cooper, Esq., on comets. 



Rev. Samuel Butcher read a paper by the Rev. Francis 

 Crawford, on the connexion between certain terminations of 

 words in the Hebrew and in different Indo-European lan- 

 guages. 



The author has long been of opinion that a close connexion 

 exists between Hebrew and the Indo-European family of lan- 

 guages ; and that this connexion is not confined to the radical 

 elements of these languages, but extends also to the formative 

 elements. The object of the present paper is to exhibit some 

 instances of the affinity which he has found to exist between 

 the latter. 



He first notices the class of stem- words formed by add- 

 ing to the original root, or some other stem, the liquid I pre- 

 ceded by a vowel. 



Thus, in Latin, we have 







ay-il-is, 



from 



ag-o. 



doc-il-isy 



33 



doc-eo. 



fac-il-is, 



35 



fac-io. 



Jid-el-is, 



33 



Jid-es. 



ann-al-is, 



35 



ann-us. 



In Latin the vowel which precedes I is a, e, or i. In 

 Greek the same mode of formation is found, but the vowel is 

 more generally a ; thus : 



