The next Meeting of the Society will be held at 9, Conduit Street, Hanover Square, W., on Tuesday, 2nd March, 1886, at 8 p.m., when the following Papers will be read:

I. Memoir of Dr. Birch by P. le Page Renouf and E. A. W. Budge, M.A., with Notes on the Chinese by Professor Douglas. II. E. Lefébure:-"Le Cham et l'Adam égyptiens."

III. Dr. M. Gaster :-The Apocalypse of Abraham.

NOTICES.

SUBSCRIPTIONS to the Society become due on the 1st of January each year. Those Members in arrear for the current year are requested to send the amount 1 Is. at once to the Treasurer, B. T. BOSANQUET, Esq., 54, St. James's Street, S.W.

PAPERS proposed to be read at the Monthly Meetings must be sent to the Secretary on or before the 10th of the preceding month.

Members having NEW MEMBERS to propose are requested to send in the names of the Candidates on or before the 10th of the month preceding the meeting at which the names are to be submitted to the Council. On application, the proper nomination forms may be obtained from the Secretary.

The LIBRARY of the Society, at 11, Hart Street, Bloomsbury, W.C., is open to Members on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, between the hours of 11 and 4, when the Secretary is in attendance to transact the general business of the Society.

THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ARE REQUIRED FOR THE
LIBRARY OF THE SOCIETY.

BOTTA, Monuments de Ninive. 5 vols., folio. 1847-1850.
PLACE, Ninive et l'Assyrie, 1866-1869. 3 vols., folio.
BRUGSCH-BEY, Grammaire Démotique.

I vol., folio.

Geographische Inschriften Altaegyptische Denkmaeler.
Vols. I-III (Brugsch).

Recueil de Monuments Égyptiens, copiés sur lieux et publiés par H. Brugsch et J. Dümichen. (4 vols., and the text by Dümichen of vols. 3 and 4.)

DÜMICHEN, Historische Inschriften, &c., 1st series, 1867.

2nd series, 1869.

Altaegyptische Kalender-Inschriften, 1866.

Tempel-Inschriften, 1862. 2 vols., folio.

GOLENISCHEFF, Die Metternichstele. Folio, 1877.

LEPSIUS, Nubian Grammar, &c., 1880.

DE ROUGE, Études Égyptologiques. 13 vols., complete to 1880.

WRIGHT, Arabic Grammar and Chrestomathy.

SCHROEDER, Die Phönizische Sprache.

HAUPT, Die Sumerischen Familiengesetze.

SCHRADER, Die Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament. 1872.
RAWLINSON, CANON, 6th and 7th Ancient Monarchies.

PIERRET, Dictionnaire d'Archéologie Égyptienne. 8vo. Paris, 1875.
BURKHARDT, Eastern Travels.

WILKINSON, Materia Hieroglyphica. Malta, 1824-30. (Text only.)
CHABAS, Mélanges Égyptologiques. Séries I, II, III. 1862-1873.

Voyage d'un Egyptien en Syrie, en Phénicie, &c. 4to. 1867.
Le Calendrier des Jours Fastes et Néfastes de l'année
Égyptienne. 8vo. 1877.

MASPERO, Du genre épistolaire chez les Égyptiens de l'époque
Phraonique. 8vo. Paris, 1872.

De Carchemis oppidi Situ et Historia Antiquissimâ. 8vo. Paris, 1872.

PROCEEDINGS

OF

THE SOCIETY

OF

BIBLICAL ARCHÆOLOGY.

SIXTEENTH SESSION, 1885-86.

Fifth Meeting, 2nd March, 1886.

F. D. MOCATTA, ESQ.,

IN THE CHAIR.

The following Presents were announced, and thanks ordered to be returned to the Donors :

From the Royal Society :-The Proceedings.

No. 240.

8vo. London.

Vol. XXXIX.

From the Royal Institute of British Architects:-The Journal of Proceedings, Vol. II, New Series.

1886. 4to. London.

No. 9.

18th February,

From the Royal Geographical Society:-The Proceedings, February, 1886. Vol. VIII. No. 2. 8vo.

From the Geological Society :-The Quarterly Journal, Vol. XLII
Part I. No. 165. February, 1886. 8vo.

From the Royal Archæological Institute :-The Archæological
Journal. Vol. XLII. No. 168. 8vo. London. 1885.
From the Royal Asiatic Society :-Journal of China Branch.
Vol. XX. No. 4, New Series. Shanghai. 1885.

From the Anthropological Institute :-The Journal.
No. 3. February, 1886. 8vo. London.

Vol. XV,

From the Northern Society of Antiquaries :-Aarbøger [YearBook]. Part IV. 1885. List of Members. 1885. 8vo.

From the Editor:-The American Antiquarian and Oriental Edited by S. D. Peet. Vol. VIII, No. 1. January,

Journal.

1886. Chicago.

From the Smithsonian Institution :-Third Annual Report of The Bureau of Ethnology. J. W. Powell, Secretary.

Washington. 1884.

From the Editor:-The Johns Hopkins University Studies. Fourth Series. I.-Dutch Village Communities on the River Hudson. By Irving Elting, A.B. 8vo. Baltimore. 1886. From the American Oriental Society:-The Proceedings at New York. Svo. October, 1885.

From the Author :-The Babylonian and Assyrian Cylinder Seals of the British Museum. By Theo. G. Pinches, Esq. 8vo. London, 1885.

Reprinted from the Journal of the British Archæological Association. 1885.

From the Author :-Les Castes en Égypte. Par Dr. A. Wiedemann. Extrait du Museon. 8vo. Louvain. 1886.

From the Author :-Recherches sur la Glyptique Orientale, M. J. Menant. Second Partie. 8vo. 1886.

From the Author :-The Empire of the Hittites. By W. Wright, D.D., F.R.G.S. Second Edition. 8vo. London. 1886.

From the Author :-Bibliography of Egypt and the Soudan from earliest Times to 1885 inclusive. By H. H. Prince Ilbrahim Hilmy. Vol. I. 8vo. 1886.

From the Publishers, Messrs. Longmans & Co. :-The Book of Genesis. A translation from the Hebrew. By François Lenormant. Translated from the French. 8vo. London.

1886.

From William Simpson-Discovery of Caves on the Murghab. By Captain De Laessoë and the Hon. W. G. Talbot, R.E. From the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. XVIII. Part 1. 8vo.