47th OEDINARY general MEETING, 



HELD (BY KIND PERMISSION) IN THE ROOMS OF THE 

 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS, ON MONDAY, 

 JUNE 16th, 1913, AT 4.30 p.m. 



The Right Hon. the Earl of Halsbury, F.R.S., President 

 OF THE Institute, occupied the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding meeting were read and signed and the 

 Secretary announced the elections of Captain M. McNeile, R.N., Mr. 

 Harry (i. Munt, and Mr. T. Isaac Tambyah as Associates. 



The President then called upon Mr. Arthur W. Sutton to deliver 

 a lecture on his journey from Suez to Sinai. 



jxL dates March 7th to 23rd, 1912. I was accompanied by 

 my friend Dr. Mackinnon, of Damascus, who was also with me 

 when visiting Petra in Arabia in 1907. As this latter tour had 

 thrown so much light upon the later wanderings of the 

 Israelites, I had a particular desire to make the desert journey 

 to Sinai itself, and thus follow the earlier journeying of the 

 people as they left Egypt under the leadership of Moses. 



In the month of February, through my friend Mr. Bolland of 

 the Sudan Agency War Office, Cairo, I met in that city Naum 



* The address was based upon a Journal of Travel, which has been 

 issued in book form, sumptuously illustrated, by Messrs. J. and J. 

 Bennett, Ltd., The Century Press, 8, Henrietta Street, W.C., with the 

 title " My Camel Eide from Suez to Mount Sinai." From that volume a 

 number of illustrations are here reproduced, by permission of the 

 publishers. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS. 



FEOM SUEZ TO SINAL* 

 (With 100 Lantern Illustrations.) 



By Arthur W. Sutton, Esq., J.P., F.L.S., 



Honorary Treasurer of the Institute. 



Mount Sinai came within the 



