586 Extracts from the Minute- Book of the Linnean Society. 
Nov. 16. 
linen immediately enveloping the body of a mummy 
from Thebes, which was recently presented to the 
Museum of the Philosophical Society of that town. 
Mr. Atkinson states, that ‘the subject appears to 
have been a person of ordinary cast, and not preserved 
with the care usually bestowed on the bodies of persons 
of a higher rank. The viscera and internal parts have 
contained thousands of larvæ, which have been pre- 
vented from arriving at their perfect state by the pro- 
cess of embalming being finished. Few of the insects 
had penetrated more than through two or three folds 
of cloth, and there perished." 
Since the above communication was received, Mr. 
J. S. Miller of Bristol, A.L.S., has transmitted some 
specimens of Insects found by him on the unwrapping 
of an Egyptian mummy. The insects proved in both 
cases to be the same, and were undoubtedly Dermestes 
vulpinus and Necrobia violacea, although of a much 
lighter colour than usual. 
Read some Observations on the Motacilla Hippolais 
of Linn. by the Rev. Revett Sheppard, M.A. F.L.S. 
Mr. Sheppard considers that ‘ all succeeding authors, 
with the exception of Bewick, have mistaken Lin- 
nzus's bird, and that the Lesser Pettychaps (a name 
badly substituted for Lesser Willow-Wren) has no claim 
whatever to be considered as the Motacilla Hippolais, 
for which Linnæus refers to the Pettychaps of Ray, 
whose description exactly agrees with the Greater 
Pettychaps. Some parts, however, of Linnzus’s de- 
scription seem at variance with Ray's; but they may 
easily be reconciled." In the year 1819 Mr. Sheppard 
shot 
