TALBOT2732

5 Richmond Grove
Barnsbury. N.
SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHÆOLOGY
9, Conduit Street, W.
ASSYRIAN AND EGYPTIAN TRANSLATIONS

16^th Dec^r 1873.

Dear Sir

Many thanks for your paper ¹ which will help us nicely over the difficulty with the Journal. I am obliged to delay publication for a fortnight but that will not matter much now

The Records of the past ² are all ready for for issue when Sir Henry Rawlinson ³ shall send his revise of the Behistun text. Unfortunately M^r Cull ⁴ lent me the text of 1846 to print, and I have had great trouble and loss of time in getting it revised. The vol will be out however by the end of the year.

The Warden of the Standards (M^r Chisholm)⁵ has been weighing the Assyrian Weights, Ducks & lions, at the B.M.⁶ and finds that they all appear to be based on a decimal system with a unit very close to that adopted in the Metric System

Dear Sir Yours fa^ly
W. R. Cooper

H Fox Talbot. Esq. FRS.

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