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Ordinary Meeting-, April 2nd, 1861. 
J. P. Joule, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. John Parry and Mr. Thomas Carrick were appointed 
Auditors of the Treasurer’s accounts for the present Session. 
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M. Durand Fardel, M.D., was elected a Corresponding 
Member. 
Messrs. Henry Brogden, John Thomas Hobson, Ph.D., 
William Alexander Cunningham, and George Robert Hay- 
wood, were elected Ordinary Members. 
Mr. T. T. Wilkinson, F.R.A.S., exhibited an Amulet, 
which, having been worn by an African chief who was 
captured in war about a century ago, had been recently 
examined, when it was found that the centre boss of about 
an inch and a half diameter contained an Arabic manuscript, 
the translation of which, kindly undertaken by Professor 
Theodores, is as follows : — 
“ In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate ; 
may God favor our master Mohammad ! With God (is) a 
protection from Satan, the accursed; with the perfect words 
of God a protection from evil for all that He has created, 
planted, and raised; with God (is) protection from the evil 
eye, and the evil mouth, and the evil foe, and the evil enmity, 
and the evil neighbour, and the evil neighbourhood, and the 
agitations of the night, and the agitations of the day, all of 
them, O Lord of Worlds ! God ! No God (exists) but He ! 
The Living, the Everlasting! Neither sleep overtakes Him, 
nor slumber ; His (is) what is in heaven and on earth ; which 
of these can intercede with Him, unless by leave from Him ? 
He knows w'hat is before them, and what behind them ; but 
they comprehend nothing of His knowledge, except in so far 
as He pleases. He extended His throne over the heavens and 
the earth, and on Him weighs not the watchfulness over them ; 
Proceedings— Lit. & Phil. Society — No. 12.— Session, 1S60-61. 
