90 J. V. HULTKRANTZ 



No. 14. 



Proceedings preparatory to redepositing in the coffin Swedenborgs 



skull, etc., in the Anatomical Institution, 



Upsala, June 12th, 1908. 



Minutes kept in the Anatomical Institution in Upsala, 

 June 12th, 1908. Present: Professors E. Clason, M. Ram- 

 ström, and as secretary the undersigned, Hammar. 



§ 1. The skull and four fragments of a lower jawbone, which, on May 

 29th of the present year, had been taken out of Em. Swedenborg's coffin in 

 Upsala Cathedral, as well as a pillow found in the coffin, having now Ijeen 

 subjected to the investigations which we, in view of the commission given by 

 the Royal Society of Sciences of Upsala to Professor V. Hultkrantz and the un- 

 dersigned Ramström and Hammar, have found necessary, we have now come 

 together for the taking of preparatory nieasures to restore these objects to the 

 coffin in the Cathedral. 



§ 2. It should here first be noted that these above-mentioned skeletal 

 parts have, during the time they have been under our care, been preserved, 

 between the periods of examination, in a locked cabinet, the key of which has been 

 in the possession of Professor Hultkrantz. and, after his departure from the city, 

 of the undersigned. Hammar. 



§ 3. It should furthermore be recorded that the various parts of the 

 lower jawbone which had been delivered to us, have, for the purpose of the 

 cranium's identification, been joined together in their natural connection with 

 suitable connective medium, and, as they did not in their original brittle condi- 

 tion admit of closer investigation, they were further joined together by means 

 of varnish: the piece of jawbone thus obtained by the connection of the frag- 

 ments of bone constitutes nearly the whole horizontal arch of the lower jawbone; 

 it contains all the four fragments of the lower jawbone which had been deli- 

 vered to us. 



§ 4- The skull and the lower jawbone, reconstructed to the extent above 

 stated, and the remainder of the pillow taken out for examination, are enveloped 

 in cotton and white tissue paper and put into a mahogany case, which is cover- 

 ed with white wrapping paper and strings and sealed with two seals, one marked 

 M. R., th(:' other J. A. H. The same seals are found under these minutes. One 

 of the signets remains in the possession of the undersigned Ramström, and the 

 other in the possession of the, undersigned Hammar. 



Upsala, as above, 



J. Aug. Hammah. 

 Simultaneously present : 



Edw. Clasox. Martin Ramsteöm. 



(Seal.) (Seal.) 



