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THEOPHILUS G. PINCHES, LL.D., M.E.A.S., ON 



in a Turanian language and nomenclature. The Kurds were called 

 Kardukhoi by Greeks, and are described by them as a powerful 

 and warlike people ; and the Romans called their coimtry Gordyene 

 and Kordyene ; while Josephus appears to have called the people 

 Kardoi : and, seeing that /• and I are often interchanged by difierent 

 languages, Kardoi or Karduoi would have easily passed in another 

 country into Kaldaioi. 



The name Kardunias given to the country of Kallimazin, King 

 of Babylon, byAmenophis III, Bang of Egypt in the fifteenth century 

 B.C., seems to be allied to Kordyene, and may refer to an earlier 

 ascendancy of the Kordukhi or Kurds over Babylonia. (See Conder, 

 Tell Amania Tablets, p. 185.) 



The Rev. J, Agar Beet, D.D., said : — What impresses me most 

 about the Empire of Nebuchadrezzar and the great city which he 

 boasted (Dan. iv, 30) that he had built, is the short duration of the 

 former, followed by the consequent decay of the latter. Doubtless 

 there was an earlier Chaldean monarchy. But the fame of Babylon 

 is due to the greatness of Nebuchadrezzar, who completed the work 

 which his father had begun. But, some twenty-three years after 

 his death, the city which he built as the capital of a great empire 

 was captured by Cyrus the Persian, and never regained its influence, 

 except for a moment under Alexander the Great. 



This recalls to us the German Empire, which suddenly sprang into 

 existence in a.d. 1870, and, after nourishing a world-wide ambition, 

 collapsed in a.d. 1918. 



The Right Rev. Bishop G. Forrest Browne, D.D., in proposing 

 a vote of thanks to the Lecturer, remarked on the fact that while 

 the Babylonians were said to have been great astronomers, and to 

 have had the Sun-god as one of their chief deities, there seemed to 

 be no evidence of the orientation of their temple with an alignment 

 to the sunrise at any of the special times of the year. The temple 

 shown on the screen was stated to have its opening at the north- 

 west, which was not what might have been expected from advanced 

 astronomers if they built with an eye to astronomy. 



Mr. Theodore Roberts, in asking for a vote of thanks to the 

 Chairman, Dr. Schofield, pointed out that the paper that had been 



