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ORDINARY MEETING* 
* 
David Howard, Esq., Y.P., in the Chair. 
The following candidates were elected : 
Associates. — W. R. Preston, Esq., 37, Gloucester Place, W. Harold 
Peirce, Esq., Philadelphia, U.S.A. 
The following lecture was delivered : 
ON TEE EVIDENCE OF MALAY, JAVANESE, 
ARABIAN AND PERSIAN ADMIXTURE IN 
THE INCA OR KESHUA LANGUAGE OF PERU, 
AMONGST THE AYMARA LANGUAGE OF THE 
PEASANT CLASS. By F. W. Christian, Esq, B.A. 
O YER twenty years ago, whilst a schoolboy at Eton, I read 
with deep interest those two splendid books, Prescott’s 
Conquest of Mexico, and The Conquest of Peru. It fired me with 
a most ardent ambition to explore that strange and picturesque 
domain of the history of Pre-Columbian man in America, and if 
possible to trace the migrations of Asiatic Columbuses from the 
Pacific side, and at the same time to endeavour to throw some 
light upon the settling of the little dots of lands scattered on 
the broad bosom of the great Hai-Nan, as the Chinese call the 
vast South Sea. 
How the study and patient labour of the best years of my 
life has succeeded, this evening’s lecture may in some sort set 
forth. I ask for a patient consideration of the evidences bit by 
bit, upon which is built up the theory of an Asiatic origin of the 
dynasty of the Incas which the Spaniards found nearly four 
hundred years ago established in the upper and lower valleys of 
Peru and along the coast-line facing Asia, from Quito or Ecuador 
to the desert of Atacama and the river Maule on the Chilian 
border. 
* Monday, May 18th, 1908. 
