REV. GEORGE MILLIGAN, ON THE GREEK PAPYRI. 73 



Vatican, been found to agree with them in the main, or are there 

 any important variations 1 



Mr. E. R. P. Moon : What were the proportions of literary or 

 non-literary output written, at the period under review, upon vellum 

 and parchment on the one hand, and on papyrus on the other, in 

 Egypt r' 



Mr. Martin Rouse asked if the Lecturer thought St. Paul's 

 large letters were due to his weakness of sight or tendency to 

 blindness. 



In proposing a vote of thanks. Colonel Mackinlay said : 

 It is my pleasing duty to propose a hearty vote of thanks to our 

 learned lecturer. The Council of the Victoria Institute frequently 

 find a difhculty in obtaining subjects for papers, which are fully 

 in accord with its chief objects and aims, which are to make use 

 of all the available results of science and investigation in the 

 elucidation of the Holy Scriptures. 



But the subject this afternoon is most suitable, the handling of it 

 has been extremely interesting and instructive, and we owe a debt 

 of gratitude to Professor Milligan for the great help he has given us. 

 I have much pleasure in moving that we offer him our sincere 

 thanks. 



Dr. Thirtle said : It affords me great pleasure to second the 

 resolution. If in regard to such researches as have been explained 

 this afternoon our obligation to the German scholar, Dr. Deissmann, 

 is great, none the less is it true — and beyond question true — that, 

 as English scholars or students, we owe a heavy debt to Professor 

 Milligan. Possibly some who have heard to-day's lecture may not 

 be aware of the devotion with which Dr. Milligan has pursued this 

 subject for many years past. To such, and indeed to all, I earnestly 

 commend his volume, recently issued, Selections from the Greek 

 Papyri (Cambridge University Press), a work which should be in 

 the hands of any who require a manual introductory to the important 

 subject now before us. I may also remark that, in collaboration 

 with Dr. J. Hope Moulton, of Manchester University, the Professor 

 has, for several years past, been contributing to 2'he Expositor a 

 series of " Lexical Notes from the Papyri " ; and thus he has done 

 much to place within reach of students a profoundly interesting 

 body of material, supplemental in a rich degree to that supplied by 

 the best modern Lexicons of the Greek New Testament. 



