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nation of some portions of the mummy and the substances connected 

 with it, which was given entire in the Phil. Mag. and Annals for Oc- 

 tober last ; N. S. vol. iv. p. 290. — The second article, concluding 

 the work, consists of an anatomical examination of certain parts of 

 the mummy, by Messrs. T. P. Teale and R. Hey. From this we 

 extract the following particulars : The cranium was covered by an 

 easily-separable layer of dry animal matter, and in some parts a few 

 short hairs were distinguishable. The dura mater was found, well- 

 preserved, in its natural situation. The cavity of the cranium was 

 rather more than half filled with the same spices as those found 

 outside the body, among which were a few lumps of resinous matter. 

 The brain itself appeared to have been removed through an opening 

 made by an instrument passed through the right nostril and driven 

 forcibly through the thin layers of the sphenoid bone in which the 

 sphenoidal cells are situated. The eyes were in their natural situ- 

 ation ; " the incisor teeth, both of the upper and lower jaw, were 

 short, cylindrical and truncated, having a broad, horizontal, and 

 nearly circular base, which appeared worn by attrition." The tongue 

 appeared to have been spread out when soft ; the cavity of the mouth 

 was filled with the spices like that of the cranium. " The general 

 contour of the cranium and fiice differed from the European in the 

 greater prominence of the jaws, and the depression of the forehead." 

 On the left side of the al)domen was an incision extending from the 

 cartilages of the ribs to the crest of the ilium. The cavity of the 

 abdomen was also filled with the aromatics, and not a vestige of its 

 viscera could be found ; but a small portion of the diaphragm re- 

 mained. In the left side of the chest were deposited, separately in- 

 closed in linen, as before mentioned, the kidneys, the liver, and the 

 heart. The fractured surface of the two latter resembled that of 

 glue. The trachea occupied its natural situation, and to it adhered 

 what seemed to be part of the lungs; the remainder of the thorax 

 was filled with the spiceiy. A dissection being made of the soft parts 

 at the back of the pelvis, the glutaeus maximus muscle was dissected 

 from the ilium and reflected: the muscular fibres yielded a little to 

 the finger, were of a deep brown-red colour, and were slightly trans- 

 lucent. The sciatic nerve was dissected out, and easily traced up- 

 wards to its several origins. 



Such is the series of antiquarian, chemical, and anatomical re- 

 searches constituting this work. The results throughout are of a 

 very satisfactory character; and the facts elicited are related by all 

 the writers in the simple and unpretending manner which so well 

 becomes the true votaries of science. Mr. Osburn has brought to 

 his subject commensurate zeal and knowledge of Egyptian antiqui- 

 ties : and the argument by which he refutes the only objections 

 which could with any plausibility be urged against the conclusion, 

 that the monarch during whose reign Natsifamon died was Re- 

 messes v., and by which, consequently, the precise date of the 

 mummy is established, we deem as perfect and as irrefragable an ex- 

 ample of archaeological induction, as can be found in the history of 

 any period or of any nation. It might almost be said, in allusion to 



this 



