524TII ORDINAEY GENERAL MEHTING, 



HELD (by KIMD PERMiySIOX) IN THE 



LECTUEE HALL OF THE EOYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS, 

 MONDAY, JANUARY 8th, 1912, AT 4.30 p.m. 



The Chair was taken by the Eev. Canon Gikdlestone, M.A. 



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

 following elections were announced : — 



Member. — Walter Henty, Esq. 



Associates. — The Dowager Lady F'earce and Eev. J. Stuart Holden, M.A. 



The Chairman in introducing the lecturer, the Rev. George 

 Milligan, D.D., Professor of Biblical Criticism at Glasgow University, 

 said : There are two things that are interesting to adl housekeepers, 

 one is pottery and the other is paper. Even the children are interested 

 in paper about Christmas time because it so often wraps up their 

 Christmas presents, but very few people know the ancestry of paper 

 or pottery. Now, however, archaeological science has fixed its 

 attention on broken pottery and fragments of paper ; pottery as old 

 as the days of the Eoman Emperors and paper older still. I think 

 when w^e regard the records of the Palestine Exploration Fund we 

 find that the study of broken pottery is becoming a science, and that 

 there are strata in pottery as in the earth's surface. When you go 

 from pottery to paper you do not find strata, but you find matters 

 of great interest. Two things which we have taken the most interest 

 in in this connexion are the census taken by the old Roman Emperors, 

 and the language in which the old papyri are written. You get 

 there the language of some of the earliest days of Christianity. 

 Dr. Deissmann's enthusiasm has so carried him away that he almost 

 refuses to recognize anything which should be called Hell-enistic, 

 because he knows what we call Hellenistic should be called the 

 popular language of the people. After all, however, we cannot forget 

 that Judaeo-Greek, which is another name for Hellenistic, means 

 Jewish thought in the Greek language. As Rabbi Duncan said, the 



