Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology

PROCEEDINGS • •• •"*„

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THE SOCIETY

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BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY.

TWENTY-FOURTH SESSION, 1893-94.

FirstMeeting, 7th November, 1893.

P. LE PAGE RENOUF, Esq., President,

IN THE CHAIR.

ThePresidentreferredto the severe loss the Society had

recently suffered by the death of Dr. C. Leemans and

ProfessorE. L. Lushington, D.C.L.,LL.D.,etc.

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

FromSir H. H. Howorth, K.C.M.G.,etc. :—Inscriptiones Palaeo-

persicaeAchaemenidarum, etc. By Dr. Cajetanus Kossowiez.

Petropoli. 8vo. 1872.

From the Author :—Alfred B. Moldenke. BabylonianContract

Tabletsin the Metropolitan Museumof Art [New York,U.S.A.].

8vo. NewYork. 1893.

From the Author :— Charles E. Moldenke, A.M., Ph.D. The

Taleof the Two Brothers,a Fairy Taleof Ancient Egypt,with

hieroglyphic transcriptionand translation. NewYork. 8vo.

1893.

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