635th ordinary GENERAL MEETING, 



HELD IN COMMITTEE ROOM B, THE CENTRAL HALL, 

 WESTMINSTER, on MONDAY, DECEMBER 5th, 1921, 



AT 4.30 P.M. 



Professor T. G. Pinches, LL.D., M.R.A.S., m the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read, confirmed, and signed. 



The Hon. Secretary announced the election of the following Members 

 and Associates since the last Meeting:— Dr. Louis E. Wood, John 

 Sterry, Esq., Sir Charles J. Owens, C.B., the Rev. Russell J. Howden, B.D., 

 E. A. McGill, Esq., M.Sc, A.M.I.C.E., the Rev. J. A. Brunberg, D.D., 

 A. T. Babbs, Esq., F.S.I., and Archdeacon J. P. Kempthorne as Members, 

 and Major Holness, R.A.V.C., 0. M. Alger, Esq., J. G. Althouse, Esq., 

 C. A. Dyer, Esq., H. M. Gilchrist, Esq., J. H. Manuel, Esq., Mrs, Bertha 

 Carr-Harris, the Rev. W. E. Rowlands, Dr. John A. Widtsoe, Sir Robert 

 J. Kennedy, K.C.M.G., James Dunn, Esq., Pastor F. E. Marsh, the Rev. 

 W. E. Oswald Parry, and the Rev. Charles Garratt as Associates. 



The Chairman then called upon the Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson, MA., 

 to read his paper on " Darius the Median and the Cyropaedia of Xenophon 

 in the Light of the Cuneiform Inscriptions." 



DARIUS THE MEDIAN AND THE CYROPAEDIA OF 

 XENOPHON IN THE LIGHT OF THE CUNEIFORM 

 INSCRIPTIONS. By the Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson, 

 M.A. 



CHARLES ROLLIN, a distinguislied French historian, 

 composed a work, entitled Histoire Ancienne (published 

 in Paris in twelve volumes, 1730-1738), which attained wide 

 celebrity, and was translated into English and many other 

 languages besides. In commencing his history of Cyrus, Rollin 

 wrote as follows : — ■ 



" The history of this prince is differently related by 

 Herodotus and Xenophon. I follow the latter, as judging 



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