Annual report. List of members.

  • Royal Society of Literature
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[1827]
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Credit: Annual report. List of members. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    expressly said, in the hymn to Apollo by Homer, to have taken delight in Mount Mycale, upon which Priene is built.—Read May 17 th, 1826. III.—“ On some Egyptian Monuments in the British Museum and other Collections.” By the Right Hon. Charles Yorke, M.R.S.L. and W. M. Leake, Esq. M.R.S.L. This Paper consists of descriptions and explanations of several drawings of the finest works of Egyptian Art in England, intended to facilitate the important study of the Hieroglyphics. In an Appendix are sub- joined extracts from two Letters, addressed to the Rev G. A. Browne> of Trinity College, Cambridge, by M. Champollion, upon the subject of the drawing (No. 14), representing the Cover of the Sarcophagus of Rameses Meiamoun, brought from Thebes, and presented to that University by Belzoni. The Appendix also con- tains eight inedited Greek inscriptions, copied in Egypt, by Mr. W. Bankes, Mr. Salt, Mr. Henry Lewis, and the late Mr. Cooke, together with some remarks upon them. IV Portions of a Manuscript, entitled, “ Remarks on Brut Tysilio, a Fabulous Chronicle, erroneously attributed to a British Prince of the Seventh Century, and printed in the second volume of the Myrvyrian Archceology of WalesBy the Rev. Edward Davies, R.A.R.S.L.—Read June 21 st, and November \st, 1826.
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