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ORDINARY MEETING, February 2, 1880. 
Rev. Robinson Thornton, D.D., Vice-President, 
in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, and the 
following election was announced : — 
Associate : — Rev. P. F. Nursey, B.A., Radnor. 
Also the presentation of the following Work for the Library : — 
Proceedings of the Royal Society. From the same. 
The Chairman. — I have great pleasure in introducing Mr. Baasam. 
(Cheers.) The name of that distinguished traveller is well known, not only 
in connection w r ith the subject of his paper, “ Recent Assyrian and Baby- 
lonian Research,” to the success of which he has contributed as nun h feS, if 
not more, than any living man ; but I also think we have heard of him as 
engaged in Abyssinia. (Cheers.) He may indeed be termed a perfect 
citizen of the world, for he has not confined his travels to Europe and 
Asia, but we hear of him in Africa also. It is, however, in connection with 
Asiatic research that he now appears before us, and I am glad to have the 
opportunity of introducing one so eminent on this his first visit to the 
Society of which he is now a member. I am sure his paper will be found 
extremely interesting, and that he will be able to afford a satisfactory 
reply to any question that may be put to him at its close. (Cheers.) 
The following paper was then read by the Author : — 
REGENT ASSYRIAN AND BABYLONIAN RESEARCH. 
By Hormdzd Rassam, Esq. 
I N a former paper, which I read some time ago before the 
Society of Biblical Archaeology, I gave an account of my 
researches in Assyria, which I had carried on there in 1877, for 
the Trustees of the British Museum ; and now, in this paper 
which I have the pleasure to read before you, I intend to give 
a resume of my last explorations in Nineveh and Babylon, 
with a description of the different ancient sites existing there 
at present. 
2. To those who are interested in archaeological research, 
and more especially with that part of it which relates to the 
inspired writings, there is something more than fascinating to 
