232 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE.—1914. 
Typical Proto-Egyptian pentagonoid skull, with small, broad, flat- 
bridged nose (nasals fused), not separated by any depression from the 
frontal; oblique orbits, and typical high ramus and coronoid process 
of the alien type of jaw. L. 173, B. 133, H. 133, F. 92, T.F. 110, 
U.F. 67, N. 47x 23°5, Interorb. 24, R.O. smashed. 
2173 A. This is a woman with teeth well worn; left upper molars 
carious, abscesses at all upper molars. Temporal part of coronal 
suture closed, as well as the whole sagittal and part of lambdoid. 
Big broad ovoid head, with senile thimning commencing. Broad face 
with out-curved zygomatic arches and out-splayed angles of jaw. 
Long, very narrow nose, with prominent spine, but not very high 
bridge. Large square orbits, with deficient lateral walls. Left femur 
is severely affected by osteomyelitis, according to Professor Ferguson, 
of Cairo, who had taken the bone before I arrived at Saqqara. Large 
inflammatory excavation in front of right sacro-iliac joint. L. 183, 
B. 137, F. 96°5, H. 135, Biz. 183, T.F. 125, U.F. 80, Interorb. 23, 
R.O. 39x 365, L.O. 40x 37, N. 55x 23, Big. 106. 
2173 D. A woman’s skull, almost edentulous, but all the sutures 
are still open. A broad, flat, beloid cranium associated with a small 
infantile face, “.175)'B; 138; PB, 90) HB. 117, Biz. 1195 PEO, 
U.F. 69, R.O. 37x 30, L.O. 36x31, N. 52x 22. 
2175. A man with all upper incisors and right canine teeth gone, 
probably the result of some alveolar disease, leaving now a large hole 
about 27 mm. in diameter. The three principal sutures are closed. 
Has a large, lofty, well-filled ovoid skull. Face very long, narrow 
and ovoid, with Proto-Egyptian type of orbits; but small, narrow, 
high-bridged, sharp-margined nose. Pointed jaw with a high ramus, 
set at so oblique an angle that the sigmoid height cannot be measured. 
Ty. 185°5; BB. 144,’ FB) 96; Hi: 140, ‘Biz. 131,  T:F.130, GEoave 
(estimated), Interorb. 21, R.O. 41x 32, L.O. 40x32, N. 50x 24. 
2262. A woman with a perfect set of healthy, almost unworn 
teeth; temporal part of coronal suture closed. A big broad pentago- 
noid skull with large alien jaw and rounded orbits. L. 189, B. 141, 
BB: 95)°H.'131, Biz: 122,-T.F. 119).U.F» 72, Intererh: 24/487@: 
37 x 33, L.O. 36 x 33°5, N. 49 x 24. 
This individual exhibits signs suggestive of some form of mummifi- 
cation having been attempted. If so, it is the earliest authentic 
evidence of such a practice. The skeleton was found completely 
invested in a large series of bandages—more than sixteen layers still 
intact, and probably at least as many more destroyed—ten layers of 
fine bandage (warp seventeen and woof forty-eight threads to the 
centimétre), then six layers somewhat coarser cloth, and next to the 
body a series of badly corroded, very irregularly woven cloth, much 
coarser (warp six and woof fourteen per centimétre) than the inter- 
mediate and outer layers. Hach leg was wrapped separately, and 
there was a large pad on the perineum. The bandages were broad 
sheets of linen rather than the usual narrow bandages. The body was 
flexed, as was usual at this period. 
_In the wide interval between the bandages and the bones there 
was a large mass of extremely corroded linen, whereas the intermediate 
