586 Extracts from the Minute- Book of the Linnean Society. 



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 larvae, 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 violaceay although of a much 

 lighter colour than usual. 



Nov. 16. 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- 

 naeus's bird, and that the Lesser Pettychaps (a name 

 badly substituted for Lesser Willoz0-Wren) has no claim 

 whatever to be considered as the Motacilla Hippolais^ 

 for which Linnaeus refers to the Pettychaps of Ray, 

 whose description exactly agrees with the Greater 

 Pettychaps. Some parts, however, of Linnaeus's de- 

 scription seem at variance with Ray's ; but they may 

 easily be reconciled." In the year 1819 Mr. Sheppard 



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