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1. " Of crectness. For whatever is heaped up stands firmly. 

 Hence the Shemitic aman to prop, to establish. Compare also cumu- 

 lus, admen, almas, <JU^ to swell, &c. &c. 



2. " Of covering or hiding, as <^+?, cf. i^&f to roll up, j&£ to cover, 

 j&£ the (covering) dust, l&c to cover. The & changes again so often to 



alif, hence in Hebrew efer, ashes. 



11 In other languages also the ideas of erectness and collecting lead to 

 the notion of trusting or believing, of Germ, glauhen, to believe, klauben, 

 to scrape together, to collect, whilst we have in Latin firmus, i. e. erect 

 and affirmare. 



" The Sanscrit ' om 1 may have had originally a final n and also, as 

 Babu Rajendraldla Mitra stated, the meaning of an affirmative parti- 

 cle. If so, the syllable om alone would express this fully, so that we 

 need not lay a particular stress on the final n in amen and the n of 

 the original form of the mysterious om. 



" That the final n in ^yo\ and the Hebrew amen is merely accessory 

 may also be seen from the verbal, where we have the same syllable 

 j*| and an r as the modifying consonant. 



" For the original meaning of yo\, which our dictionaries have not yet 

 explained, is ' to establish,' from which we readily get the meanings 

 to affirm, to declare, to command and (in Hebrew) to speak. 



" I may also add that the Hebrews attached no mysterious sense to 

 the word amen." 



Communications were announced — 



1. From the Under-Secretary to the Government of India, Public 

 Works Department, the concluding portion of the Report of the 

 Archaeological Surveyor to Government for the season, 1862-63. 



2. From the Same, Diary of Occupations of the Archaeological 

 Surveyor for the month of January, 1865. 



3. From Babu Gopinath Sen, Abstract of the Hourly Meteorologi- 

 cal Observations taken at the Surveyor General's Office in December, 

 1804. 



Mr. Heeley read some extracts from General Cunningham's Report 

 of the Arclueologioal Survey for 1862 63. 



