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OKDINARY GENERAL MEETING* 

 Colonel Mackinlay in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the 

 Ee V.John Urquhart was elected a Member. 



The following paper was read by the Author : — 



TEE BIBLE PEDIGBEE OF THE NATIONS OF THE 

 WOBLD, as attested and expanded hy ancient Becords and 

 Traditions, and hy early and long-lasting national Names. 

 By Martin L. Eouse, Esq., B.L. 



Section I. Japhet and Gomer. 



A PRIZE was recently awarded by the Victoria Institute 

 for the best essay that set forth the Bearing of recent 

 Oriental Discovery upon Old Testament History. The subject 

 of the following pages embraces that field of evidence within 

 the wider one of pagan records and traditions at large, while it 

 has the narrower aim of confirming only one section of the 

 sacred history contained in the Bible. But it equally accords 

 with the general objects of our Society ; and it is meant only 

 to be introductory to a much more comprehensive treatise, 

 which, if my life is spared, I shall give to my leaders and fellow- 

 workers here. Confiding, then, in your sympathy, I take the 

 first step in tabulating my own and other men's researches upon 

 an early and most important section of Bible History, to test 

 its trustworthiness both by the unwitting agreement of the 

 sculptors and scribes of Egypt and Shinar, and by that of the 



* Monday, February 19th, 1906. 



