loth January, igii. 



Sir John W. Byers, M.D., President, in the Chair. 



EXPLORATIONS IN NUBIA. 



Bv Professor Elliot Smith. 



(Abstract.) 



The Chairman said they were there that evening to have 

 what he was confident would be a most interesting lecture from a 

 distinguished and well-known member of the medical profession — 

 Dr. Griffin Elliot Smith — who was himself a remarkable example 

 of the cosmopolitan nature of the British Empire. A native of 

 New South Wales, a doctor of medicine of the University of 

 Sydney, Dr. Smith came to Cambridge, where he graduated as 

 master of arts and became a fellow of St. John's College. From 

 Cambridge, where he was demonstrator of anatomy, he went to 

 Egypt as professor of anatomy in the Egyptian Government 

 School of Medicine, Cairo, returning subsequently to England, on 

 being appointed professor of anatomy in the University of Man- 

 chester, while from 1909 to 1911 he was also Arris and Gale 

 lecturer to the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Professor 

 Smith was well known for his extremely original work on the 

 comparative anatomy and evolution of the brain, which led to his 

 being elected a fellow of the Royal Society. Whilst at Cairo, 

 Professor Smith worked under the famous French savant., Sir 

 Gaston Camille Maspero, director general of antiquities and of 

 excavations in Egypt, devoting his attention specially to anthro- 

 pology and the art of mummification. He had ample opportunities 

 for following these interesting studies both at the famous museum 

 in Cairo and at Girga, a small town in Upper Egypt on the west 

 bank of the Nile, a little more than three hundred miles south of 



