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May 23. 

 SIR Wm. R. HAMILTON, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



The Rev. Dr. Kennedy Bailie, late F. T. C. D., concluded 

 a paper which he had commenced on the last meeting but 

 one of the Academy, the subject of which was a general 

 statement of his researches in certain parts of Asia Minor, 

 relative to Inscriptions of the Grseco-Roman era. The fol- 

 lowing is an outline of his communication. 



He commenced with some brief notices of what has been 

 done by scholars in this department of classical literature, 

 and with remarking on its importance, as illustrative of the 

 language, the history, and the institutions of the people who 

 have bequeathed these monuments to after-ages. In this 

 section, the labours of Chandler, Pococke, Spon, Clarke, and 

 Professor Boeckh, were particularly commemorated. 



Next followed an account of the rules by which he was 

 guided, in forming his collection of inscriptions, during a 

 tour which he had recently made in the countries bordering 

 on the Mediterranean. 



The third section embraced notices of the inscriptions 

 which he copied in six of the Apocalyptic sites, namely, 

 Ephesus, Philadelphia, Sardes, Thyatira, Pergamus, and 

 Smyrna, and of a few others which he found in some neigh- 

 bouring localities, viz. two sepulchral, from the sites of the 

 ancient Cotyaion, and three from the Turkish town of Kir- 

 kagatch, situated on the road from Thyatira to Pergamus. 



The Ephesian monuments related chiefly to circumstances 

 connected with the Artemisiac festivals. They were three in 

 number ; one, a psephisma, or decree of the senate and 

 people of Ephesus; the two remaining, honorary tituli. 



Of the four inscriptions found at Philadelphia, the most 

 remarkable was a fragment of a titulus, which, in all proba- 

 bility, had been inscribed on the pedestal of a statue of the 



