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spect also to the author's Median Alphabet, as given in the 

 same paper, he now makes a few slight corrections, which, 

 however, do not affect the general views there stated regarding 

 that language. Dr. Hincks further gives a Babylonian alpha- 

 bet or syllabary, exhibiting the values of sixty-five characters 

 of the third Persepolitan writing, and of one hundred and 

 twenty-eight of the Babylonian lapidary characters : placing 

 the Babylonian characters in juxtaposition with the corres- 

 ponding Persepolitan ones. He adds an analysis of fourteen 

 proper names written in the latter character, and of two in the 

 former ; and he points out the mode of reading them in the 

 different forms under which they appear in the inscriptions. 

 Dr. Hincks moreover states, that, with the exception of a few 

 letters, to which correct values had been assigned by Professor 

 Grotefend, and a few others to which the same author had 

 approximated, nothing in the right direction had hitherto been 

 published concerning these two last-mentioned kinds of writing. 



The Rev. Charles Graves read a paper on the date of the 

 manuscript commonly called the Book of Armagh.* 



Shortly after the Book of Armagh had been deposited in 

 the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, Mr. Graves ob- 

 served, on a careful examination, that numerous erasures had 

 been made in it. These occur at the end of the following 

 writings contained in the volume : 



1. The Confession of St. Patrick, fol. 24, b. 



2. The Gospel of St. Matthew, fol. 52, b. 



3. The Gospel of St. Mark, fol. 67, b. 



4. The Gospel of St. Luke, fol. 89, b. 



5. The Revelation of St. John, fol. 170, a. 



6. The Acts of the Apostles, fol. 190, a. 



7. The second Book of the Life of St. Martin of Tours, 

 fol. 214, a. 



8. A letter of Sulpicius Severus, fol. 220, a. 



* Foi' an account of this manuscript see Transactions, vol. xx. p. 329. 



