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. James Backhouse ... ... ... Rev. Charles James Ball Hyde Clarke... Miss Clendinning P. J. de Horrack ... ... ... I I O O 230 ON O O O 335 255 2 Rev. George Currey, D.D. ... ... I I ... ... 20 50 ... O ... ... ... ... 2 O THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ARE REQUIRED FOR THE LIBRARY OF THE SOCIETY. PLACE, Ninive et l'Assyrie, 1866-1869. 3 vols., folio. FERGUSSON, Palaces of Nineveh and Persepolis. 1 vol., 8vo., 1851. Geographische Inschriften Altaegyptische Denkmaeler. 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. LANE, Manners and Customs of Modern Egyptians. 2 vols., 8vo. LEPSIUS, Nubian Grammar, &c., 1880. -Königsbuch der Alten Aegypter. 4to., 1858. DE ROUGE, Études Égyptologiques. 13 vols., complete to 1880. Arabic Chrestomathy. I vol., texts, and complete glossary. DELITZSCH, Assyrische Studien. Heft I, 1874. SCHROEDER, Die Phönizische Sprache. HAUPT, Die Sumerischen Familiengesetze. SCHRADER, Die Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament, 1872. RAWLINSON, CANON, Five Great Monarchies. 3 vols. OSBURN, The Monumental History of Egypt. 2 vols., 8vo. ROBINSON, Biblical Researches. 8vo., 1841-1852. PIERRET, Dictionnaire d'Archéologie Égyptienne. 8vo. Paris, 1875. BURKHARDT, Eastern Travels. WILKINSON, Materia Hieroglyphica. Malta, 1824-30. (Text only.) HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN Ordinary to her majesty, ST. MARTIN'S LANE. The Bronze Ornaments of the Palace Gates from Balawat. [SHALMANESER II, B.C. 859-825.] EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY SAMUEL BIRCH, Esq., D.C.L., LL.D., F.S.A., &c. Parts I, II, and III have now been issued to Subscribers, with some portion of the letterpress description by Mr. THEO. G. PINCHES. In accordance with the terms of the original prospectus, the price for each part is now raised to £1 10S. Terts in the Babylonian Wedge = writing. Being a series of carefully autographed plates, copied from tablets written in the Babylonian character only; compiled by THEO. G. PINCHES, of the Department of Oriental Antiquities, British Museum. The design of the Author is to furnish students with the means of making themselves acquainted with the Babylonian style of writing, and to this end the texts, which will be of high value and interest, will be accompanied by as complete a syllabary of the Babylonian characters as can now be made, arranged in a convenient form for reference. It is proposed to issue the work in two parts :-Part I is now in preparation, and will be ready for issue towards the end of the present year. The price will be about 4s. for each part. 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. No. 11. 8vo. November, 1881. From the Geological Society:-Quarterly Journal. Vol. XXXVII. Part 4. No. 148. 8vo. London, 1881. From the Philosophical Society of Glasgow :- Proceedings. Vol. XIII. No. 1. 8vo. Glasgow, 1881. From the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland :— Ditto, ditto, Tabulæ, fasciculus primus (Tab. I-XIV). Parisiis. 4to. 1881. From Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart., &c., &c., Vice-President :Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu, Edipus Ægyptiacus, hoc est Vniuersalis Hieroglyphicæ Veterum Doctrinæ temporum iniuria abolitæ instauratio. 3 vols. Folio. Romæ, 1652. From Arthur Cates, Hon. Sec. :-Bibliotheca Orientalis. By Karl Friederici. 8vo. Leipzig. 1879 and 1880. 2 parts. From Robert Bagster :-Records of the Past. in six. London. 8vo. 1875-81. 12 Volumes, bound Babylone et la Chaldée. Par Joachim Ménant. Paris. 8vo. 1875. Classification des Caractères Cuneiformes, Babyloniens et Ninivites. Par Ed. de Chossat. 4to. Paris. Assyrische Lesestücke nach den originalen theils revidirt theils zum ersten male herausgegeben, &c. Von Dr. Friedrich Delitzsch. Leipzig. Folio. 1876. Mémoire sur quelques Papyrus du Louvre. Par G. Maspero. Paris. 4to. 1875. Index Alphabétique de tous les mots contenus dans le Livre des Morts, &c. Par J. Lieblein. Paris. 8vo. 1875. L'Exode et les Monuments Égyptiens, Discours prononcé à l'occasion du Congrès International d'Oriéntalistes à Londres. Par Henri Brugsch-Bey. Leipzig. 8vo. 1875. Plates of the Black Obelisk of Shal A series of 15 Folio maneser II (c. 823 B.C.). See Records of the Past, Vol. V, p. 27. From the Author:-Language, and Theories of its Origin. Robert Brown, F.S.A. London. 8vo. 1881. By Reprinted from the Journal of Transactions of the Victoria Institute. From the Author :-Glimpses into the Past. By Henry Phillips. jun., A.M., Ph.D. Philadelphia. 8vo. 1881. The following have been purchased by the Council for the Library of the Society: The New Testament, translated out of the Greek: being the 1880. |