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and they may be very cognate to the questions discussed before us. I have 
always thought, from the close connection of the Egyptian and other civiliza- 
tions with the Etruscan, that it must he Turanian in origin, although it ha 
been asserted on high authority that it was Semitic, or even Aryan. 
Rev. G. Currey, D.D. — In connection with this very interesting sub- 
ject, I may refer to an instance in which the Etruscans are brought into 
contact with another people. We all know that the Romans derived from 
the Etruscans their arts of divination. We find in Ezekiel an account of 
Nebuchadnezzar casting lots and making divinations before he marched 
against Jerusalem, and we are told “he made his arrows bright, he consulted 
with images, he looked into the liver” (Ezek. xxi. 21), evidently practising 
the arts of divination common among the Turanians, and by them intro- 
duced into Rome. Now the Chaldean arts of divination seem to have been 
derived from the old inhabitants, the Accadians. And so, when we find the 
Chaldeans practising these arts in the same way as the Etruscans, we have a 
curious point of contact between the Etruscans and Chaldeans. 
Mr. Taylor. — M. Lenormant has brought out these facts very forcibly in 
his essay on the magic of the Chaldeans, showing that their magic was the 
magic of the Finns. 
A Member. — I should like to draw attention for a moment to the striking 
figures which have been referred to by Mr. Taylor, and which are in the 
British Museum. I believe these figures to be worth many books, and cer- 
tainly their character shows something very similar to the Chinese or 
Mongolian type. They show a great length of foot and slightness of body 
and arms and legs. I should be glad if Mr. Taylor could give us his views 
in reference to them. 
Mr. Taylor. — This touches on a remarkable point which I should have 
mentioned myself, had it not been for fear of exceeding the limits of the time 
at our disposal. One of these figures is that of a man of extreme old age 
and emaciation, which accounts for its slightness. It represents, moreover, a 
man whose body had not been burned, but buried, and, therefore, he ought to 
be one of the Tartaric rather than of the Finnic stock. Here, as well as in that 
portrait of the Etruscan warrior which I have shown you, you have great 
obliquity of the eyes and height of the cheek-bones ; and I should take one 
as an example of the conquering, and the other of the conquered race. In the 
later Etruscan portraits you have a greater approximation to the Greek and 
Roman type of figure. These Mongol features have absolutely vanished from 
the Turks of the present day, through their intermarrying with Aryan 
women. The Osmanli have lost their characteristics, just as the Hungarians 
are losing them. 
The Chairman. — I have listened to Mr. Taylor’s paper with a double 
pleasure ; not only because it is a valuable philological and ethnological 
Essay, but also on account of its logical value. I was much delighted with 
the way in which the inductive method was put before us. We have been 
shown by the most complete induction, and by a comparison of resemblances 
