lived about 3000 years ago ; it will be admitted, that the pre- 

 serving power of the mummifying process employed by the 

 ancient Egyptians, and now discovered by Dr. Granville, must 

 be great indeed. 



This mummifying process consists in the thorough impreg- 

 nation of every part, soft or hard, with bees'-wax. There are 

 besides, myrrh, gum, resin, bitumen, and even tannin (an- 

 other new fact brought to light by the author of this paper) in 

 the composition of the mummy ; but none of these, either 

 singly or conjointly, appear to be sufficient without the bees'- 

 wax, to preserve the body, or convert it into a perfect mummy. 

 Dr. Granville has proved this by successive steps, and con- 

 vinced those who saw the exhibition after the meeting of its 

 accuracy, by showing one of the nates of the mummy wholly 

 deprived of the wax by ebullition and maceration, which was 

 beginning to putrefy, and which now looked no longer like its 

 mummified fellow, but more like the preparation of a 

 recent specimen of that part. 



The disease of which the female died was ovarian dropsy ; 

 and the uterine system, with the sac that had contained the 

 morbid fluid during life, forming the oldest pathological pre- 

 paration of its kind in existence, was exhibited to the society. 

 The heart, lungs, diaphragm, one of the kidneys with the 

 ureter, the gall bladder, and part of the intestines, were also 

 shown. 



Mai/ 5. — Dr. H. H. Southey was admitted a Fellow of the 

 Society ; and a paper was communicated by Peter Barlow, Esq. 

 FRS., in a letter to Mr. Herschel, On the Magnetism imparted 

 to Iron Bodies by Rotation. 



Mai/ 12. — John Taylor, Esq. was admitted a Fellow of the 

 Society ; and a paper was read. On the Magnetism produced 

 in an Iron Plate, by Rotation ; by S.H.Christie,Esq. AM. FRS. 

 May 19. Mr. George Harvey, John Smirnove, Esq., and the 

 Rev. Dr. Morrison, DD. were respectively admitted Fellows of 

 the Society ; and the following papers were read : — 



A Description of the Transit Instrument by Dollond, erected 

 at the Observatory at Cambridge; by Robert Woodhouse, 

 AM. FRS. 



On the Fossil Elk of Ireland ; by Thomas Weaver, MRIA., 

 8tc. : communicated by Professor Buckland. 



During his recent avocations in the North of Ireland, Mr. 

 Weaver had enjoyed, he stated, an opportunity of determining 

 some facts showing that the Elk whose fossd remains so fre- 

 quently occur in Ireland, lived and died in the countries where 

 it is now found ; and similar facts had been ascertained about 

 the same time, in the West of Ireland," by the Very Rev. Arch- 

 deacon of Limerick ; particulars of which had been communi- 

 cated to the Royal Dublin Society, and would form, Mr. Weaver 



