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near, but about to go, and that he must be provided for his journey ; aud here they 

 found something like the old Greek practice of placing a coin in the hands of the 

 dead to pay the ferryman. 



5. Note on Photographs of Mummies of Ancient Egijptian Kings, recently 

 unrolled at BoulaTi. By Sir J. William Dawson, C.M.G., F.B.S. 



These photographs, representing the mummies of Seti I.,Eameses II., andRa- 

 meses III., have been kindly communicated by Dr. Schweinfurth, of Cairo. They are 

 of great interest as enabling us to see the actual features of these ancient Egyptian 

 kings, and to compare them with their representations in the monuments, and with 

 modern Egyptians. It appears that the features of Seti are scarcely of Egyptian 

 type, as represented either by the monuments of the older dynasties or by the 

 present Egyptians ; though, as Dr. Schweinfurth shows in a drawing accompanying 

 the photographs, a similar style of countenance still exists among the Copts. It 

 also appears that the features of Rameses II. strongly resemble those of his father, 

 and are very like those on some of his statues. Both Seti and Rameses have narrow 

 and somewhat retreating foreheads and strongly developed jaws, indicating men of 

 action rather than of thought, and both were men of great stature and bodily 

 Aigour, and seem to have lived to advanced ages. 



Dr. Schweinfurth, in a letter accompanying the photographs, invites especial 

 attention to the fact that mummies when unrolled speedily decay, and thinks that 

 the Association should exert its influence in behalf of the preservation of these 

 precious relics, either by restoring their wrappings or by placing them in air-tight 

 cases, so that they may escape the destruction which has fallen on so many 

 mummies in European museums. 



6. 071 the Anatomy of Aboriginal Australians. 

 By Professor A. Macalistee, F.B.S. 



7. Notes on a Tau Gross on the Badge of a Medicine Man of the Queen 

 Charlotte Islands. By R. G. Haliburton. 



The author said this badge was interesting, as Queen Charlotte Island is one of 

 the most isolated of the Northern Pacific islands. It lies off the west coast of 

 British Columbia. This symbol was used by the Indians on large sheets of copper, 

 to which they assigned a high value, and each of which they called a ' tau.' The 

 connection of that name with the symbol is world-wide. Our T is simply the 

 tau symbol, and is called ' tee ' or ' tau.' The medicine men represent the tau 

 sometimes on the forehead. The ancients used to mark the captives who were to 

 be saved with a tau or cross. Ezekiel refers to this, and the word he uses for ' the 

 sign ' to be marked on the foreheads of them that are to be saved, really is ' the 

 tau ' or ' cross.' 



No one has divined why the scarab was so sacred. He was led to a solution 

 by seeing an exaggerated tau cross on the back of a scarab. On looking into the 

 Egyptian name for the scarab he found it to be tore, and that the sutures on the 

 beetle form a tau cross. But the same name is applied to the same beetle by our 

 peasantry, ' tor-beetle,' or ' dor-beetle.' Wilkinson represents a god with a scarab 

 for a head — and one of the names of which was tore. The use of the prehistoric 

 or pre-Christian cross ia world-wide, and a puzzling problem which he would not 

 enlarge upon. 



8. Remains of Prehistoric Man in Manitoba. 

 By Charles N. Bell, F.B.G.8. 



The author in this paper announced the existence in the Canadian North-west 

 of sepulchral mounds, and pointed out the hitherto unknown fact that there is a con- 



