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The South Sally Port is even less promising. Pengelly reports honeycombing, 

 of the upper deposits at least, by burrowing animals, and a basal deposit, archseo- 

 logically barren, of mixed sandy grit and cave earth. 



At this point we are over 100 feet from the entrance, and all experience seems to 

 be against hope of finding occupation sites further into the interior of the Cavern. 

 We return to the entrances, but they are unfortunately closed to us. Immediately 

 outside the one the ground is covered by the machinery supplying electric light to 

 the cave. The other opens on a public right of way, and is the only means by which 

 tourists enter to view the interior. 



The plateau is above, under houses and private gardens, and here again excavation 

 is impossible. There remains a shelf or platform, running below the escarpment at 

 a level varying from 15 feet to 30 feet above the entrances, from 30 feet to 40 feet 

 broad, and extending on both sides of the entrances. We have obtained permission 

 to sink a series of pits here during the remainder of this summer and autumn in the 

 hope of finding the remains of hearths and occupation sites. 



We desire to add the names of the Rev. H. B. Hunt, M.A., and Mr. J. J. Judge 

 to those mentioned in previous reports as ready helpers in the work. 



(Signed) F. Beynok, H. G. Dowie, A. H. Ogilvie. 



Egyptian Peasantry. — Report of Committee (Prof. J. L. Myres, Chair- 

 man ; Mr. L. H. D. Buxton, Secretary ; Mr. H. Balfour, Mr. E. N. 

 Fallaize, Capt. M. W. Hilton Simpson, Prof. H. J. Rose) appointed 

 to investigate the Culture of the Peasant Population, of Modern Egypt. 



The Committee reports that Miss Winifred Blackman, whose inquiries among the 

 peasant population of Egypt have now been continued since 1922, with the help of 

 grants from the Royal Society, the Percy Sladen Trustees, The Wellcome Medical 

 Museum and other sources, has remained in Egypt throughout the past twelve months, 

 and has therefore fulfilled the condition on which the Association's grant at the Leeds 

 meeting was made. The grant has accordingly been paid over to her. 



During the past year Miss Blackman has lived in the neighbourhood of Cairo, 

 and has succeeded in collecting much folklore from her native acquaintances. Samples 

 of drugs, charms and other objects used in native medicine have been sent to the 

 Wellcome Medical Museum, 54a Wigmore Street, London, W. 1, in return for the 

 Museum's subsidy, and are now arranged for exhibition there. The Committee 

 recommends that ethnographical specimens collected with the Association's grant be 

 offered to the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford. 



Miss Blackman's book on The Fellahin of Upper Egypt was published in the autumn 

 of 1927 by Messrs. G. G. Harrap & Co., London, and she hopes soon to complete 

 her monograph on the Cults of Sheikhs and Saints in Egypt. 



