The next Meeting of the Society will be held at 9, Conduit Street, Hanover Square, W., on Tuesday, 1st June, 1886, at 8 p.m., when the following Paper will be read :—

I.-F. G. HILTON PRICE, F.S.A., "Notes upon Egyptian Antiquities in the Collection of F. G. Hilton Price, F.S.A."

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

The following Presents were announced, and thanks ordered to be returned to the Donors, a special vote of thanks being voted to Mr. F. Cope Whitehouse for his donations:

From the Geological Society :-The Quarterly Journal. Vol. XLII. Part 2. No. 106. May 1, 1886. 8vo. London.

From the Royal Institute of British Architects:-The Journal of Proceedings. Vol. II. New Series. Nos. 15 and 16. 6th and 20th May, 1886. 4to. London.

From the Royal Geographical Society: The Proceedings. Vol. VIII. No. 6. 1886. 8vo.

From the Victoria Institute :-The Journal of the Transactions.
Vol. XVIII. 8vo. 1885.

From the Anthropological Institute :-The Journal.
No. 4. May, 1866. 8vo. London.

Vol. XV.

From the Royal Archæological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland :-The Archæological Journal. Vol. XLIII. No. 169. 8vo. London. 1886.

From the Editor:-The American Journal of Archæology. Vol. II. No. I. 8vo. Baltimore. 1886.

From the Editor:-The Johns Hopkins University Studies. Fourth Series. V. An Introduction to the Study of the Constitutional and Political History of the States. By J. Franklin Jameson, Ph.D. 8vo. Baltimore. 1886.

From the Editor: The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal. Edited by Rev. Stephen D. Peet. Vol. VIII. May, 1886. No. 3. 8vo. Chicago.

From the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres :-Comptes Rendus des Séances de l'année 1885. Quatrième série.

Tome XIII. Bulletin d'Octobre-Novembre-Décembre.

Paris. 1886.

8vo.

From the Author, R. V. Lanzone :-Dizionario di Mitologia Egizia. Quinta Dispensa. Parte Seconda. 4to. Torino. 1886.

From the Author: Handbücher der Alten Geschichte. I. Babylonisch-Assyrische Geschichte. Von C. P. Tiele. I. Teil, von den ältesten zeiten bis zum tode Sargons. II. Gotha. 8vo. 1886.

From the Author :-De Hoofdtempel van Babel en die van
Borsippa (naar de opschriften van Nebukadrezar). Door.
C. P. Tiele. 8vo. Amsterdam. 1886.

Overgedrukt uit de Verslagen en Mededeelingen der
Köninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeeling
Letterkunde. 3de Reeks. Deel III.

From the Author :— Witnesses from the Dust, or, The Bible illustrated from the Monuments. By Rev. J. N. Fradenburgh, A.M., Ph.D. 8vo. Cincinnati. 1886.

From the Author :-Researches in the Moeris Basin, a volume specially prepared for the library of the Society, with abstracts and copies of papers read at Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, and Cairo since November 5th, 1885, English, French, Greek, and Arabic; illustrated with photographs taken by him in the Raian and Fayoum basins, and on the Bahr Jousuf. By Cope Whitehouse, M.A.

The following Candidates were submitted for election, having been nominated 4th May, 1886, and elected Members of the Society :

Rev. A. S. Geden, M.A., Oxon, Dalkeith, Midlothian.

Rev. Professor Biggar, M.A., Magee College, Londonderry.

John Newton, M.R.C.S.E. and L.A.C., 9, Westcliffe Road, Southport.

John Whitehead, The Esplanade, Guernsey.

The following was, by special order of the Council, nominated for election, and elected a Member of the Society :Rev. William Ewen, M.A., B.D., Kinning Park Parish, Glasgow.

Mr. F. G. Hilton Price, F.S.A., read a Paper describing a number of Egyptian Antiquities in his Collection.

In the course of the year 1885 some very interesting excavations and discoveries were made at a place now called Ekhmîn or Ekhmim, situated upon the right bank of the Nile, in the Thebaid, opposite to Souhag. This town occupies the site of a very ancient Khem,

city called Chemmis, and written in hieroglyphics & Khem,

and 0

Aput; it was sacred to the god Khem or Ames, it was the chief city of the Panopolite nome, and in later times its name was changed to Panopolis.

Judging from the antiquities therein discovered, we learn that the place must have been occupied as a city from a very early date, probably about the XIth dynasty, throughout the later Empire, the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. A few interesting antiquities, mostly of Ptolemaic and Roman times, have found their way recently to London.

The most interesting objects sent me from this site are two sepulchral boxes of sycamore wood. They are shaped much in the form of a pylon, being 18 inches high, 17 inches wide at the base, 14 inches wide at the top, and 10 inches deep from back to front.