The

Solomon. The careful placing of the huge blocks Foundation of stones, both those above ground level and those hidden from sight down to the solid rock below was a great achievement.

Stones.

The Church at Siloam.

On the slope of the hill to the south stood the royal city of King David which has entirely disappeared. At the foot of the hill is the Pool of Siloam, near to which some interesting discoveries were made for the Palestine Exploration Fund by Dr. Bliss, who found an ancient church twenty feet underground, which was The Siloam probably built by the Empress Eudocia in the fifth Tunnel. and destroyed in the seventh century. Under the church the well-known tunnel brings the water The Siloam from the Virgin's Fountain to the Pool, and in this Inscription. was found the famous inscription which is generally believed to have been cut in the time of King Hezekiah.

Returning to the Haram area, there is to be seen near the south-west corner the remains of an ancient arch, which Captain Warren found to be the commencement Robinson's of a grand approach to the Royal Cloister of the Jewish Temple. The springing of the arch is now close to the surface, but the valley at this point was originally 80 feet deeper, so great has been the accumulation of débris in the course of centuries.

Arch.

Place.

A Spanish
Jew.

A little to the north of the arch the Jews, who, by the way, now number 50,000 in Jerusalem and are more numerous than the Christians or the Mahomedans, have their The Wailing Wailing Place whither they resort on Fridays to lament the loss of Jerusalem and to pray for its restoration. Near the south wall of the Haram is the Mosque of Aksa, originally built by the Khalif Abd-el-Melek in A.D. 691, but since destroyed and rebuilt several times. It was the head-quarters of the Knights' Templars during the Christian occupation of Jerusalem in the twelfth century. North of the Mosque of Aksa stretches the Haram enclosure upon which formerly stood the great Temple of the Jews. That Temple has now entirely disappeared; so completely has the prophecy been fulfilled that

The Haram
Area.

Plan of the
Temple.

Temple
Inscription. interesting relic was found by Monsieur C.
Ganneau in the form of one of the Greek inscrip-
tions which, as we are told by the historian Josephus, were

not one stone was to be left on another. But an

placed on the barrier beyond which Gentiles were not allowed to pass.

The Dome

The
Sakhrah.

The site of the Temple is now occupied by the beautiful Mahomedan building in the centre of the Haram enclosure, and wrongly called the Mosque of Omar. of the Rock. It is not a mosque and was built, not by Omar, but by the Khalif Abd-el-Melek in the seventh century over the Sakhrah or Holy Rock. Its proper name was the Dome of the Rock, and the Lecturer showed a remarkable view of its interior, with the bare rock in the place of a pavement-the rock, once the refuse heap of Jerusalem, but long since cleaned and sweetened, and made holy, and with traditions clustering around it, the like of which appertained to no other rock in the world. Its traditions relate to Abraham, Jacob, and David, and it formed the base of the Holy of Holies in the Temple of King Solomon.

The PRESIDENT, at the close of the lecture, proposed a hearty vote of thanks to the LECTURER, which was seconded by Lt.-Gen. Sir HENRY GEARY, K.C.B., Vice-President, and supported by the Treasurer, Mr. A. W. SUTTON, by Professor EDWARD HULL, and the Ven. Archdeacon POTTER. The LECTURER briefly replied, and on the motion of the Very Rev. the DEAN OF CANTERBURY the thanks of the Meeting were passed to the PRESIDENT for taking the Chair, and the proceedings terminated at 6 p.m.

**The titles given in the insets are those of the chief illustrations shown.

President.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF HALSBURY,
D.C.L., F.R.S.

Vice-Presidents.

SIR T. FOWELL BUXTON, BART., K.C.M.G.
DAVID HOWARD, ESQ., D.L., F.C.S., F.I.C. (Trustee).
LIEUT.-GEN. SIR H. L. GEARY, R.A., K.C.B.

PROFESSOR EDWARD HULL, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S.
REV. CANON R. B. GIRDLESTONE, M.A.

GENERAL J. G. HALLIDAY.

VERY REV. H. WACE, D.D., Dean of Canterbury (Trustee).

Honorary Auditors.

E. J. SEWELL, ESQ. | H. LANCE GRAY, ESQ.

Honorary Treasurer.

ARTHUR W. SUTTON, ESQ., J.P., F.L.S.

Secretary and Editor of the Journal.
E. WALTER MAUNDER, ESQ., F.R.A.S.

Assistant Secretary.

MR. ALBERT E. MONTAGUE.

Council.

(In Original Order of Election.)

REV. CHANCELLOR J. J. LIAS, M.A.

THEO. G. PINCHES, ESQ., LL.D., M.R.A.S.

VEN. ARCHDEACON W. M. SINCLAIR, M.A., D.D.
REV. JOHN TUCKWELL, M.R.A.S.

LIEUT.-COLONEL GEORGE MACKINLAY (Chairman).
ARTHUR W. SUTTON, ESQ., J.P., F. L.S.

REV. PREBENDARY H. E. FOX, M.A.

PROFESSOR H. LANGHORNE ORCHARD, M.A., B.Sc.
RT. REV. BISHOP J. E. C. WELLDON, D.D.
SYDNEY T. KLEIN, ESQ., F.L.S., F.R.A.S., M.R.I.
WILLIAM J. HORNER, ESQ.

ALFRED T. SCHOFIELD, ESQ., M.D.

HEYWOOD SMITH, ESQ., M.A., M.D.

REV. H. J. R. MARSTON, M.A.

VEN. ARCHDEACON BERESFORD POTTER, M.A.
J. W. THIRTLE, ESQ., LL.D., M.R.A.S.

E. J. SEWELL, ESQ.

ALFRED W. OKE, ESQ., B.A., LL.M.

LT. COLONEL M. A. ALVES.

REV. PROFESSOR D. S. MARGOLIOUTH, D.LITT.
R. W. DIBDIN, ESQ., F.R.G.S.

JOSEPH GRAHAM, ESQ.