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QUARTERLY ~TATEMEN'f, JULY, 1896.J THE PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND. THE..ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Fund will be. held on Tuesday, the 14th day of July, at 4 P.M., at the Royal Institution, ..Albemarle Street, W. Lord Amherst of Hackney will preside, and the meeting will be addressed by: - :M:ajor-General Sir Charles Wilson, R.C.B., R.E.; Lieut.-Colonel Watson, C.M.G., R.E.; The Rev. William Wright, D.D.; and others. Early application for tickets of admission ghould be made to the A.cting Secretary. The. Committee deeply regret that as Dr. Bliss and ]\{r. Dickie were returning one evening to their camp an attack was made upon them, and Mr. Dickie received a stab in the shoulder, and had his arm broken. lIe was doing wen when the last accounts were despatched, and, it is hoped, will soon recover. Dr. Bliss himself escaped injury. Herr von Schick's elaborate report on the Church of the ..Ascension, the publication of which has been delayed owing to want of space, is in the printer's hands, and will appear in the October number of the Quarterl.'lJ Statement. H err von Schick reports that, owing to the exceptionally heavy fall of rain during the past season, much water accumulated in