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which has been placed in a new show-case. The body- 

 was found by Mr. Ernest Mackay, Assistant to Professor 

 Flinders Petrie, F.R.S., lying in a wooden box on its 

 left side, which faced East, and with its head to the 

 North. The legs and arms are very contracted, as is 

 generally the case with burials of this period, the custom 

 coming down from pre-dynastic times. Linen wrappings 

 of two different textures enclose the bones. The box, 

 which is made of " sycomore " wood, secured at the 

 corners by hard tholes of acacia, was discovered in one 

 of six shallow pits, lying alongside the Eastern face of a 

 large brick " mastaba " or tomb. 



Assyrian, Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



Nothing of importance has been added to either of 

 these sections during the year. 



Room No. II. 

 Ethnographical Collection. 



A number of small objects, interesting in themselves, 

 have been added to this department, the general 

 arrangement of the exhibits remaining as before. 



Room No. III. 



Industrial Art Collection. 



Specimens of German craftsmanship of the 1 6th and 

 17 th Centuries have been added in the shape of a series 

 of wrought iron door and trunk locks and candlesticks, 

 and a cast iron fireback, mainly from Nuremberg, and a 

 fine wooden altar-panel, carved with the subject of "The 

 Last Supper " and coloured. 



