238 REV. A. B. GRIMALDI_, M.A._, ON THE ZODIACAL ARRANGEMENT 



a request which I transferred to him" when I was at a loss how to 

 fill this evening with a suitable paper. In turning over documents 

 I found two papers by Mr. Grimaldi, and it occurred to me that the 

 subject of this paper would be of great interest ; certainly it is a 

 subject of which we have very little knowledge but which now will 

 be better known to the members. I beg to propose a hearty vote of 

 thanks to the Lecturer. 



Colonel Hendley, C.I.E. — I should like to ask the Lecturer 

 whether the coins he saw with signs of the Zodiac were coins of the 

 Mogul Empire, because he referred to the vase alone being 

 represented. Li these Mohammedan coins the figure would be, if 

 possible, left out. 



Mr. Grimaldi. — Yes, on these coins it is only the vase. They 

 are gold mohurs of Jehanger, 1627. 



Colonel Hendley. — You spoke of the Eeformation having done 

 away with the influence of the Zodiac, but all through Eastern 

 countries the Zodiac is a most potent influence from an astronomical 

 point of view. No boy can have a name without the Zodiac being 

 referred to, nor can his partner in life be selected for him without it 

 being consulted as to the particular star ... so that every 

 birth and death of three hundred million people are influenced 

 by the Zodiac. 



Mr. Grimaldi. — I only spoke of countries affected by the 

 Eeformation. There is a Zodiac at Ifiley, near Oxford, a Norman 

 one. The most curious, I think, in England is in Brookland, on the 

 borders of Kent, but it is not round the doorway, but on the font. 

 This is, I believe, the only Zodiac on a font, that is in England, and 

 it is a very great curiosity of the highest interest. I believe it is 

 Pre-Xorman, though it is called Norman. 



A Member. — What is the cycle of Seth and Cassini ? Is it what 

 Josephus calls the Great Year and states to be equal to six hundred 

 ordinary years, which it was needful for the lives of the antediluvian 

 patriarchs to exceed, as he says, so that they might see the fulfil- 

 ment of their stellar predictions.* 



Mr Grimaldi. — My lecture has not been based upon a personal 

 scientific knowledge of astronomy. Josephus refers to this extra- 



* Tliis is really the summary of Josephus's statement; he does not 

 actually say that the cycle was discovered before the Flood, {Jos. Ant., 

 I, iii, 9.) 



