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the incision was made much earlier there than in the lower half, made 

 April 7th, 1908. {Appendix, No. U). 



On that occasion also the layer of wadding which now filled 

 the coffin had been deposited. After the removal of the wadding (PI. 

 I., fig. 2), there appeared at the head-end of the coffin a cranium and 

 an upper arm bone from the left side, and in the middle and lower parts 

 of the coffin some large and small pieces of decayed wood, which on 

 account of their form could be assumed to date back to the original 

 coffin, and to have been deposited there, probably in 1853. Under this 

 lay a relatively perfect skeleton, still partially enveloped in the remains 

 of the shroud, of a brownish-gray color, and resting upon a lower layer 

 of mouldered coarse saw-dust. (PI. I,, fig. 3). At the head-end of the 

 coffin were discovered the tolerably well preserved remains of a pillow 

 with a rounded depression, which had probably arisen from the resting 

 of the dead man's head on this spot. 



A close examination of these remains of the shroud, etc., which 

 Professor Dr. G. Lageeheim of Stockholm has been kind enough to 

 undertake, has yielded the result that the larger bits of wood were of 

 elm (Ulmus), and the saw-dust of pine (Pinus silvestris); the remains 

 of the shroud consisted of coarse and fine kinds of woolen cloth, 

 whose partly decomposed and very fragile fibres showed no signs of 

 having been colored. Certain pieces showed a bordered edge and 

 holes regularly cut out, but no embroidery. The covering of the pillow 

 was of coarse woolen cloth, the stuffing of wool with rather well pre- 

 served fibres. Finally, in the upper end of the coffin, there was also 

 found a little piece of cloth with an unmistakable knot, found to be of 

 genuine Chinese silk, probably the remainder of a neck-tie. Some hairs, 

 from 2 to 4 cm. long, were also found, which, after the microscopical 

 investigation of Prof. A. Hammae, were proved to have undoubtedly 

 belonged to a human being, and which because of the diffusion of the 

 pigment seems to have had a pale red color. ^ 



' The supposition expressed in tlie 14Lh point of the minutes, that these liairs, as also 

 the bits of cloth lying close to them, constitute the fragments of a wig, received no support 

 upon closer examination. 



In regard to the color of the hair, it should be remembered that, according to the 

 testimony of SnEARSMrrH, his landlord in London, Swedenborg was »of a brown complexion» 

 10 (p. 196), and his hair »was not dark, but approaching to a pale auburn.» 32 (Vol. II., p. 

 554). »His hair had been a dark brown, but what he had left was by age become a dark 

 gray.» 32 a (p. 17). — According lo Librarian Ciörwell's description of Swedenborg's appear- 



