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forecast the measure of success attending the day’s hunting or other business, 
heal the sick, afflict healthy people with disease, and cause death. In Swedish 
Lapland the magic drum fell under the ban of the law in 1671, when several 
Lapp magicians were apprehended and their drums burnt. The sacred drum of 
the Samoyeds is described by Gourdon in 1614 as ‘a great tabor made with a 
wolf’s skin,’ and he mentions that a hare’s foot was used as a drumstick. The 
Lapp drum is struck with a specially made hammer. Although the Lapp drum 
is now only seen in museums, the magic drum of the Samoyeds is still in use. 
The North American and Greenland Eskimo give a prominent place to the drum, 
but it seems to be chiefly used by them as a musical instrument. 
4. Recent Excavations at Sakkara, with special reference to the Tomb 
of Hesy. By J. KE. Qureetn. 
About 400 tombs of the Second and Third Dynasties have been examined 
during the last two winters. They are mastabas of crude brick, with stairway 
shafts, of small burial chambers in which the body lay in a contracted position. 
All except the poorest had been robbed in antiquity. In one only, that of Hesy, 
were paintings found. 
The wooden panels of Hesy were placed in the Boulac Museum by Mariette 
more than forty years ago, but no description of the tomb was published, and its 
site had been lost. This year it was refound, and an hitherto unobserved wall, 
forming a part of it, has been disclosed. This wall is over 30 metres long, 
and is covered with paintings of a markedly different design from any hitherto 
known. The deceased is represented seated under a tent, while before him, on 
a large mat, are laid trays of wood containing his funeral furniture. There are 
in this scene no hieroglyphs, no human figures, nothing resembling the other 
Old Kingdom tombs. A clay sealing dates the monument to the reign of Nefer- 
Kha, the builder of the Step Pyramid (Third Dynasty). 
5. Sarawak Music. By Dr. C. 8S. Myzrs. 
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 
The following Papers and Report were read :— 
1. The Suprasylvian Operculum in the Brains of Primates, with special 
reference to its Condition in Man. By Professor Raout ANTHONY 
and Dr. A. 8. pe Sanra Marta. 
To arrive at any proper conception of the morphological significance of the 
neopallial swelling which forms the upper lip of the Sylvian complex in the human 
brain, it is indispensable that our interpretation should be based upon the new 
conceptions of telencephalic topography set forth mainly in the works of Pro- 
fessor G. Elliot Smith, which our own recent researches ? have in some measure 
helped more precisely to define in respect of certain points. 
The suprasylvian operculum of the Primates is essentially a part of the corti- 
cal territory which we have called ‘peripheral.’ From the morphological point 
of view it can be considered as the result of an expansion of the cortex at the 
place where the change of thickness in the wall of the cerebral hemisphere occurs 
as the result of the presence of the central grey nuclei (corpus striatum). 
Consisting in the human brain of arcuate convolutions, each possessing an 
axial sulcus, and separated the one from the other by more or less definite 
10. R. Acad. des Sciences Paris, 1911; Rev, Scientifique, 1911; Rev, Anthro- 
pologique, April and July 1912, 
