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OIIDINAKY GENERAL MEETING* 

 Lieut.-General Sir H. L. Geary, K.C.B., V.R, ix the Chair. 



Tlie Minutes of the (ileiieral Meeting held on June 13tli were read and 

 confirmed. 



Elections. — The following candidates were elected : — 



Members : — Professor J. Dyneley Pi-ince, Columbia University, New 

 York ; Eev. Chas. T. Townley, M.A., Christ Church Rectory, 

 Wisbech ; Leonard Sutton, Es([., F.L.S., Hillside, Reading ; J. M. 

 Peebles, Esq., M.D., Michigan. 



Associates : — Rev. H. 0. Thomson, D.D., Albuquerque ; Miss Caroline 

 Tindall, Beyrout ; Heywood Smith, Esq., M.D., London ; John H. 

 Roscoe, Esq., London ; R. Tilden Smith, Esq., Clapham ; A. C. 

 Furse, Esq., Highgate ; Mrs. Theodore Bent, London ; George A. 

 Stonier, Esq., London ; C. Wallington, Esq., London ; Rev. Forster 

 Ashwin, M.A., Bury St. Edmunds ; Henry B. Bilbrough, Esq., 

 London ; Rev. A, R. Cavalier, London ; Colonel W. Sidebottom, 

 Manchester ; Rochester Theological Seminary, New York. 

 The following paper was then read l)y the author : — 



''BESEARCHES IN SIXAir 

 ]3y Professor W. M. Flinders Petrie, D.C.L. 

 (Review by the Secretary.) 



OF Professor Petrie's immerous works the last is certainly 

 not the least important. Tlie " Researches in Sinai " is 

 the outcome of a vast amount of laborious observation, resulting 

 in throwing fresh light on the cult and character of the very 

 early Egyptian monarchs and their subjects, esp::;cially in con- 

 nection with the search for minerals in a region not forming a 

 portion of Egypt proper, but adjoining it, and incidentally 

 throwing light on parts of O.T. history. Having myself travelled 

 through the Sinai tic region in 188o-4 when accompanying the 

 expedition sent out by the Palestine Exploration Committee, it 

 affords me special interest to read the narrative recorded, and 

 examine the numerous photo-illustrations with which this line 

 work is embellished. Almost every page contains a surprise ; 

 and the remarkable knowledge of the ancient hieroglyphics which 

 the author has acquired in his researches in Egypt and the 

 Nile valley are here happily applied in deciphering tal)lets 

 dating back over 5,000 years B.C. and more ancient even than 

 those of Tel el Amarna and of Abydos. Professor Petrie is to 



* Monday, December 10th, 1906. 



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