FUND FOR ALTERATION AND EXTENSION OF THE SOCIETY'S LIBRARY. In consequence of the removal of the Offices of the Society to No. 11, HART STREET, BLOOMSBURY, W.C., a special fund has been formed for the alteration and extension of the Society's Library. The following subscriptions have already been received by the Secretary. Further amounts subscribed will be duly acknowledged in the Proceedings : £ s. d. 5 5 O ... 5 ... ... ... ... ... 2 35 55H 0 1 2 3 I ... 2 3 3 5 The Rt. Rev. the Lord Bp. of Durham ... ... ... ... ... 352 2 00 5 2 Rev. Josiah Miller ... 5 ... Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart.... J. Manship Norman, M.A. Miss Peckover John E. H. Peyton ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 ... 5 ... ... ... 20 O O ... ... THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ARE REQUIRED FOR THE LIBRARY OF THE SOCIETY. LAYARD, Monuments of Nineveh, 2 series, 1849, 1853. 2 vols., folio. Nineveh and Babylon. I vol., 8vo., 1853. Nineveh and its Remains. 2 vols., 8vo., 1849. FERGUSSON, Palaces of Nineveh and Persepolis. 1 vol., 8vo., 1851. Geographische Inschriften Altaegyptische Denkmaeler. Altaegyptische Kalender Inschriften, 1866. Tempel Inschriften, 1862. 2 vols., folio. LEPSIUS, Nubian Grammar, &c., 1880. DE ROUGE, Études Égyptologiques. 13 vols., complete to 1880. Arabic Chrestomathy. I vol., texts, and complete glossary. DELITZSCH, Assyrische Lesestücke, 1878. Assyrische Studien. Heft i., 1874. SCHROEDER, Die Phönizische Sprache. HAUPT, Die Sumerischen Familiengesetze. SCHRADER, Die Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament, 1872. Herodotus. 4 vols. DE SAULCY, Journey Round the Dead Sea. 2 vols., 8vo. Babylon and Persepolis. 8vo. BURKHARDT, Eastern Travels. LABORDE, Arabia Petrea. 8vo. HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY, ST. MARTIN'S LANE. SAMUEL BIRCH, D.C.L., LL.D., &c., PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. THE following Presents were announced, and thanks ordered to be returned to the Donors : From the Royal Geographical Society:-Proceedings, and Monthly Record of Geography. Vol. III. 8vo. No. 1. January, 1881. From the Palestine Exploration Fund :--The Quarterly Statement. January, 1881. From the Author :-Koptische Grammatik von Ludwig Stern. 8vo. Leipzig, 1880. From the Author :-Die Composition und die Schicksale des Manethonischen Geschichtswerkes. Von Dr. Jacob Krall. 8vo. Wien, 1879. Manetho und Diodor, eine Quellenuntersuchung. Von Reprinted from the Journal der Phil. Hist. Classe der Kais. From the Author :-Zur Kritik der Chronologischen Angaben des Aus den Berichten der K. Sächsischen Gesellschaft der From the Author :--Hittites in America. By John Campbell, From the Canadian Naturalist, Vol. IX., No. 6. From Hyde Clarke. Une Enquête judiciare a Thèbes au temps de la XX dynastie; étude sur le papyrus Abbott par G. Maspero. 4to. Paris, 1872. Extrait du Tome VIII des Mémoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres. From G. Bertin :-Journey through Arabia Petræa to Mount Sinai and the excavated city of Petra, the Edom of the prophecies. By M. Léon Laborde. 8vo. London, 1838. From Thomas Stainton :-Vrbis Hierosolymæ qvemadmodvm ea Christi tempore florvit, et suburbanorum eius breuis descriptio .. Christiano Adrichomio Delpho auctore. 8vo. Coloniae Agrippinae, 1588. From W. Harry Rylands :--Layard. Nineveh and its Remains. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1849. :-Layard. Nineveh and Babylon. 8vo. London, 1853. :-Rawlinson. History of Herodotus. London, 1875. 4 vols. 8vo. The following have been purchased by the Council for the Library of the Society : Lieblein, J. Recherches sur la Chronologie Egyptienne, d'après les listes Généalogiques. 8vo. Christiania, 1873. Programme de l'Université pour le Ier Seméstre, 1872, avec neuf Tables autographiées. F. Chabas. Les Pasteurs en Egypte. Amsterdam, 4to., 1868. Mémoire publié par l'Académie Royale des Sciences à Amsterdam. Dr. Friedrich Münter. Versuch über die Keilförmigen Inschriften zu Persepolis. Kopenhagen, 8vo. 1802. M. Silvestre de Sacy, lettre à M. Millin sur les inscriptions des monumens Persépolitains. 8vo. Paris. Extrait du Magasin Encyclopédique, année viii., t. v., p. 438. Dr. Friedrich Münter. Religion der Babylonier. 4to. Kopenhagen, 1827. Philoxène Luzzato. Le sanscritisme de la langue assyrienne, ou les restes de la langue assyrienne recueillis et expliqués par le sanscrit. 8vo. Padoue, 1849. The following were nominated for election at the next meeting on February 1st, 1881:— Bouverie Pusey, Pusey House, Cambridge. Samuel Kinns, Ph.D., The College, Highbury New Park, N. Alexander Bennett McGrigor, LL.D., 19, Woodville Terrace, Glasgow. Rev. Edward Hayes Plumtre, D.D., Bickley Vicarage, Kent. Rev. Algernon Charles Dudley Ryder, M.A., Ickleford House, Hitchin, Herts. Rev. Herbert Wilson, M.A., Hurst Lodge, Horsham, Sussex. The following were duly elected Members of the Society, having been nominated on December 7th: Rev. A. Delattre, S.J., Ancienne Abbaye de Tronchiennes les Gand, Belgium. Rev. Hardwicke D. Rawnsley, Wray Vicarage, Ambleside. Rev. Walter J. B. Richards, D.D., St. Mary's, Westmoreland Road, W. Basil Woodd Smith, Branch Hill Lodge, Hampstead. Thomas Stenhouse, 14, Lyndhurst Road, Hampstead, N.W. Rev. Alex. Williamson, LL.D., Chefoo, China. The alteration in Rule XXIX., of which notice was given on 7th December, 1880. Proposed by William Simpson, and seconded by Thomas Christy, that the Rule be changed as follows, the word second being substituted for first, was passed by the Meeting. The Rule will now therefore read : XXIX. The Anniversary Meeting of the Society shall be holden in the second week in January, &c., &c. |