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ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING* 
General J. G. Halliday in the Chair. 
The Minutes of previous meeting were read and confirmed. 
Election. — Miss Gwendoline Crewdson was elected Associate. 
The following paper was read by the Author : — 
RESEMBLANCES BETWEEN INDIAN AND JEWISH 
IDEAS AND CUSTOMS ( with lantern slides). By Colonel 
T. Holbein Hendley, C.I.E. 
T HE subject of the present paper is rather of a miscellaneous 
character. It treats of resemblances between a number 
of Indian ideas and customs and similar ones which are 
mentioned in the Bible, whether they relate to the Jewish 
nation or to the people beyond their borders, with whom the 
Hebrews were brought in contact, but which are alluded to in 
the Scriptures. I am aware that many such Biblical ideas and 
customs have been compared with those of other countries 
both ancient and modern. Of most of these, however, I do not 
intend to speak, but I have thought it might be useful, and 
might lead to interesting discussion if I brought together a few 
notes upon the subject with special reference to such matters as 
have come within my own knowledge. It is, perhaps, necessary 
to state that my own experience was chiefly gained in North 
India, although my studies, particularly in relation to Indian 
jewellery, and in connection with the collection of objects for 
exhibitions and museums, have led me to make researches and 
inquiries in all parts of the great peninsula, and of the East. 
I will commence with some remarks upon land. 
Love of the land, and especially of hereditary possessions, as 
well as a keen desire to own it, are common to all agricultural 
* Monday, 25th January, 1908. 
