THE 610th ORDIXARY MEETING, 



HELD IX COMMITTEE ROOM B, THE CENTRAL HALL, 

 WESTMINSTER, OX MOXDAY, JUXE 2xd, 1919, 



AT 4.30 P.M. 



The Rev. Professor D. S. Margoliouth, D.Litt.. 

 IN THE Chair. 



The Minutes of the p^e^ious Meeting were read, confirmed and signed. 



The Secretaby, Mr. Sewell, announced the election of the Rev. Canon 

 Berry, formerly an Associate, to be a Member, and the election of Major 

 P. J. Wiseman and Herbert A. Hall as Associates. He also announced 

 the death of Sir T. F. Victor Buxton, Bart., a Member. 



It was also announced that oA\ing to the serious illness of Lady Halsbury, 

 Lord Halsbury would be unable to deliver the Annual Address on June 16th. 

 Lt.-Col. Mackinlay had veij kindly undertaken to deliver the Aimual 

 Addi-ess, his subject being the Literary Marvels of St. Luke. 



" THE MOSAIC CALENDAR:' By E. Walter Maunder, 

 Esq., F.R.A.S., Superintendent of the Solar Department, 

 Royal Observatory. Greenwich. 



BY The Mosaic Calendar " I wish to denote the complete 

 circle of national rehgious observances enjoined by the 

 Law ascribed to Moses, and recorded in the Pentateuch. 

 I have no desire to deal with the ritual laid down for these 

 observances, or with the typical, prophetic, or theological signifi- 

 cance attaching to them. But these ordinances have a special 

 interest for me in connection with my own profession, since they 

 have a specific relation to the heavenly bodies. Thus in Genesis 

 i, 14-15, we read : — 



And God said, Let there be fights in the firmament of 

 the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them 

 be for signs, and for appointed assembfies, and for days, 

 and years : and let them be for lights in the firmament 

 of the heaven to give light upon the earth : and it was so," 



" Seasons." 



In our Enghsh versions, the word which I have rendered 

 appointed assembfies " is given as seasons." There is 

 no doubt as to its meaning. In the great majority of cases 

 where we meet with it in the Old Testament, it is translated 



