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OEDIXAEY GENEEAL MEETING* 



Lieut.-Gexeral Sir H. L. Geary, K.C.B. (Vice-President) 



IX THE Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following paper was read by the Author : — 



THE PEDIGREE OF THE XATIONS. No. 11. 

 By M. L. Eouse, Esq., B.L. 



IX presenting the Institute with a second paper upon the 

 Pedigree of the Nations, it was my intention to go on 

 reYiewing the respectiYe progenies of the sons of Japhet in the 

 order wherein these are giYen in the Tenth of Genesis. But^ 

 when I began to investigate more seriously than I had 

 hitherto done the parentage of the nations of Central and 

 Eastern Asia, I met with a problem as to the distribution of 

 the families of Magog and Tubal which I saw that I could 

 not properly solve and set forth before the appointed day. 

 Therefore, in preparing this paper, I have departed from the 

 Bible order ; and, since I have already dealt with the peopling 

 of Europe by two great families of Japhet, I have examined 

 and shall brins; before vou the migrations of another that has. 

 both peopled our own continent and largely stocked the 

 adjoining regions of Asia and of Africa. 



After reading my former paper, in which I determined the 

 position of the eastern branch of the race of Ashkenaz — the 

 earliest Saxons — as around the southern quarters of the Caspian 

 Sea, I remembered that just north of the Ascanimian 

 Mountains, which ran eastward from the southern coast of that 

 sea, there had stood from a remote period the tow^n of 

 Askabad ; and the thought struck me, might not this contain 



* Monday, February 4th, 1907. 



