ORDINARY MEETING, April 16, 1883. 
Rear-Admiral Henry D. Grant, C.B., in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, and the 
following elections were announced : — 
Members : R. Hills, Esq., New South Wales; Rev. R. F. Hessey, M.A., 
Basingstoke. 
Associates : I. A. Arnold, Esq., United States ; T. W. E. David, B.A., 
New South Wales ; S. L. Jepson, A.M., M.D., United States ; C. C. 
Jones, Esq., Jun., United States ; Rev. S. Mitchell, New South Wales ; 
Christopher Rolleston, Esq., C.M.G., New South Wales ; B. B. 
Warfield, Esq., United States. 
The following Paper was then read by the Author : — 
BABYLONIAN CITIES . — By Hormuzd Rassam, Esq. 
I T may be remembered tbat a little more than three years 
ago 1 had the honour of reading a paper before you in 
connexion with my discoveries in Assyria and Babylonia. 
Since then I have been out twice to that country, superin- 
tending the national researches on behalf of the Trustees of 
the British Museum, and I am glad to say that in my several 
explorations I have been rewarded with new discoveries of 
monuments and records of those celebrated and ancient 
kingdoms. 
I have already casually noticed before you my fortunate 
discovery of the City of Sippara or Sepharvaim of the Bible ; 
but as I did not enter then fully into the way I hit upon it, I 
