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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much after the one adopted by the Chemical Club. Weekly meetings will be held in a room in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, of which Professor Trowbridge has granted the use to the club. During the year it is expected that every man will prepare at least one paper, and read it before the other members of the club. In this way, it is thought, an exchange of opinions may be made which will prove valuable to all the persons concerned. It is probable that no one will be eligible to membership in the club unless he has taken at least...
...unknown. The oldest recovered specimens are from about 4000 B. C., and come from Tello in Southern Babylonia. The essential feature of the script, after the period of picture writing was past, is the wedge. These in combination make all the signs, several hundred in number. The script read at first downwards, but afterwards to the right. The wedges have but three directions, horizontal, perpendicular, or oblique, at an angle of about forty-five degrees. Any given Babylonian writing is composed of a mixture of the signs representing objects with those representing syllables. For our ease in consulting and learning...
English B. Themes will be read in Sever 11 today at 2 o'clock...
ENGLISH B.Themes will be read in Sever 11, on Tuesday, March 26, at 2 o'clock...
Although the Babylonian inscriptions from Persepolis were translations of the deciphered old Persian, yet the difficulty of the Babylonian script stood in the way of reading the Babyilouian characters. A given sign did not always represent the same sound nor the same idea. One could read the shorter Babylonian inscriptions without knowing how to pronounce a single sign. By degrees it was seen that the various signs were syllables and not letters. From this discovery the work went rapidly forward. In 1857 so much had been written on the subject that the Royal Asiatic Society of London appointed a committee...