ORDINARY MEETING, April 19, 1880. 
H. C Adrian Jones, Esq., in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, and the 
following elections were announced : — 
Associates : — Rev. H. K. Moore, Queenstown ; F. M. Sexton, Esq., 
Birmingham ; Rev. G. P. Quick, Rio Janeiro. 
Also the presentation of the following Works for the Library : — 
“ United States Geological and Geographical Survey.” From the same. 
“ Proceedings of the American Geographical Society.” 4 vols. „ 
“ Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.” „ 
“ Report of the United States Comptroller of the Currency.” „ 
“ United States Deaf and Dumb Congress at Columbus.” „ 
“ Cretaceous Plants.” By Dr. Wallich. „ 
“ The Threshold of Evolution.” By the same. „ 
A Pamphlet. 
The following paper was then read by the Author : — 
THE RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY OF THE ARYANS 
OF NORTHERN EUROPE. By R. Brown, Esq., F.S.A. 
1. The Aryan Race in the Holethnic Period. 
T HERE was a time when the mighty Aryan* race, small in 
numbers and simple in manners, lived undivided in 
Western Asia ; and from this beginning sprang Yedic-Indian, 
Baktrio-Iranian, Slav, Greek, Latin, Teuton, and Kelt, nation- 
alities as yet unborn. The primitive Aryans spoke one lan- 
guage, the Proto-Aryan tongue ; and ere they separated, 
although what we now know as grammar and dictionary were 
* According to Prof. Max Muller the term “ Aryan ” is derived from ar 
or ara , the ear- th, as ploughed (vide p. 315, note on Ertha). Thus Arya 
is “ one who ploughs.” 
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