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Tweedie, in her “Mexico as I saw it,” stated that even to-day 
corn in the cob was placed near the mouth of the corpse. ; 
The Harlyn Bay graves were found in regular lines, and in 
some cases four cists had been super-imposed ; probably through 
the centuries, during which the place was used for interments, the 
sand encroached and covered up the lower tiers. There were a 
few circular cists made up of two compartments, and in these 
cases the skull and some of the limbs seemed to have been 
severed before death. Prof. Bullen thought that possibly these 
might be connected with some sacrificial ceremonies. 
The lecturer said that the dental phase of the skulls in Mr. 
Mallett’s little museum particularly interested him. As a result 
of a short examination of the collection, a paper was read before 
the Odontological Society in February of 1903, when it was hoped 
that he would go on with the investigations, especially in regard 
to the alterations that had taken place in the skulls, jaws, and 
teeth since those early times. He was able to enthuse a young 
Cornishman, living in London, to accompany a late President of 
the Odontological Society and himself for a week-end to Harlyn 
Bay. Before going down, however, a learned Member of the 
Camera Club, Dr. Leon Williams, lent them a_ splendid 
instrument, his own invention, for measuring skulls. In this he 
(the lecturer) thought that Dr. Williams showed a generous and 
truly scientific spirit. By means of slides, the lecturer showed 
the working of the ingenious “‘ craniometer,” which was suited to 
measuring skulls from fixed points either in the living or dead 
subject. 
The special trip down to Cornwall took place on March 2oth, 
1903. After concluding their work in the museum, taking notes, 
measurements, and exposing plates, they went out and built up a 
screen of four or five blankets to keep off the wind and sharp, 
cutting sand, and then, working like any navvies on the line, they 
tried for all they were worth to find a cist. Many tons of sand 
they shifted, but to no purpose, their total find after six hours’ 
hard work being one ox’s molar, a knuckle bone of some sort, and 
a piece of slate that might possibly be called a pre-historic 
scraper. 
Now, as to the scientific results of their little trip. Up to 
the present they had not been startling, although it was true that 
a second paper had been read before the Odontological Society. 
Roughly speaking, one might say that modern life, with its much- 
cooked food and made-up dishes, the terrible knife and fork 
invention, the rapid rate of living, the saving of weakly ones by 
medical science (who saw fit to breed their own kind in another 
generation), all made up a total which, in matters relating to the 
dental structures, was a dear price to pay for modern civilization. 
The lecturer compared skulls found at fifteen feet level with a 
single skull found at but a spade’s depth. He pointed out the 
