PHARAOHS, Dr. Naville, the discoverer of Bubastis and of the Treasure City of Pithom, has just given to the world the results ut his work in identifying other cities and districts in Egypt, more especially some connected with the Exodus of the Israelites; and at the end of the month of June he presented these results before one of the largest meetings ever held by the Victoria (Philosophical) Institute, of Adetphi Terrace, London, the great ball in which the meeting was held being so crowded that any had to be accommodated in the vestibule. 'The chair was taken on th occasion by the President, Sir Gubriel Stokes, Bart., past President of the Royal Society, and' the present occupant of Sir Isaac Newton's Professorial Chair at Cambridge University. The business of the evening was commenced by Captain F. Petrie, the Honorary Secretary, reading the Report, which showed that the Institute's members and Associ in England, India, Australia, China, and other parts of the world had now risen to 1,400; a number which was being added
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