VOL. LIV.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. J^ 



simple cases of the problem in question, and thence to proceed gradually to the 

 more complex, as has been here done in the present problem, where the several 

 preceding cases lead one after another to the points and lines required for the last 

 case, in which the problem is stated in its most extensive form. • m 



END OF THE FIFTY-THIRD VOLUME OP THE ORIGINAL. 



/. Of a Mummy, inspected at London 17 63. By John Hadley, M.D, 



F.R.S. p. 1. Fol.LIF. 



The mummy, which is the subject of this paper, is the first article in Dr. 

 Grew's catalogue of the rarities of the r. s. He informs us, that it was a 

 present from Henry Duke of Norfolk ; and was an entire one, taken out of the 

 Royal Pyramids. He then proceeds to describe the manner in which the several 

 part* were wrapped up : but this he has not done exactly ; as most of these very 

 parts had evidently never been opened, till we examined them : and were then 

 found in a very different state from that in which they are represented by him. iri 



This mummy had been greatly injured, before it came into their hands; the 

 head had been taken off from the body ; and the wrappers with which they had 

 been united, having been destroyed, the cavity of the thorax was found open 

 towards the neck : and part of the upper crust, with the clavicles, having been 

 also broken away, the heads of the ossa humeri presented themselves, covered 

 with a thin coat of pitch. The feet also had been broken off from the legs ; 

 and were fixed by wires to the end of the wooden case in which the mummy lay. 

 The outer painted covering, which reached from the upper part of the chest 

 nearly to the bottom of the legs, had been removed, and fastened on again by 

 a great number of ordinary nails, driven up to the head into the substance of 

 the mummy. This had most probably been done by those who had orders 

 some years since to repair it ; and by this, and by the manner in which they had 

 fastened on the feet, they seem to have done their work in a most clumsy manner. 

 This whole external covering of the fore part of the mummy consisted of seve- 

 ral folds of broad pieces of linen cloth ; made to adhere together by some 

 viscous matter, which had not yet lost its property ; and the whole had received 

 an additional degree of strength and substance from the coat of paint laid on. 

 The figures, which were not entirely defaced, were of the usual kind, and were 

 all so much injured, as to render a particular description of them very difficult, 

 if not impossible. 



There were not the least remains of hair or integuments on any part of the 

 head ; some parts of the skull were quite bare ; particularly about the temporal 

 bones; which had the natural polish, and appeared in every respect like the 



