[890] Mohl, op. cit. Report, June 1869, ii. 257.
[891] Ib. June 1864, ii. 565.
[892] Mohl, op. cit. June 1861, ii. 364.
[893] Trans. S. B. A. 1886, ix., article by Mr. Pinches. Cf. Report, May 1862, J. R. A. S. 1862, xix.
[894] Layard, Nineveh and Babylon, new ed. p. xxxviii, note.
[895] J. R. A. S. 1860, xvii. Report, 1859. Memoirs, p. 241.
[896] For a list of these see Memoir, p. 170.
[897] He received the Conyngham Medal of the Royal Irish Academy in 1848 (Athenæum, May 1850). Layard has well said: ‘In any other country but England a man of such attainments and so eminently calculated to confer honour upon the nation to which he belonged, would have received some reward, or would have been placed in a position of independence to enable him to pursue his studies. But in spite of numerous representations to Government and of the European reputation he had established, he was allowed to remain without any public recognition of his literary and scientific acquirements.’—Nineveh and Babylon, new ed. p. xlvi, note.
[898] Aug. 24, 1850.
[899] The signs are reproduced from M. Oppert, Le Peuple des Mèdes, 1879.