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completed, I place a tube on to each nostril, to allow of respiration 

 when the face is covered with plaster, and I plug the ears. He is then 

 made to recline on the charpoy in the manner I have indicated, and a 

 well oiled cord is laid along the neck from the shoulder in front of 

 the ears and over the top of the forehead to the shoulder on the other 

 side, the ends are allowed to hang down the shoulders a little way. 

 The eyes being gently but firmly closed and the quills in the nostrils, 

 the plaster is poured over the face, neck and as much of the head as 

 can be reached without interfering in the least with the position of 

 the patient ; when the plaster is beginning to set, the ends of the string 

 which passes from shoulder to shoulder are laid hold of by the two 

 ends and pulled towards each other, thus separating the head and 

 facial portions of the cast from one another ; when the latter has harden- 

 ed it is carefully removed and the man can then open his eyes and 

 breathe naturally. With the former portion still remaining on the head 

 and part of the shoulders, he is made to sit up, and the back of the 

 head and neck ■; is well smeared with butter, and another well oiled 

 string is placed along the posterior margin of the still adherent 

 portion of the cast. The plaster is then poured on to the back of the 

 head and neck ; and when it has commenced to harden, it is separated 

 from the remaining portion of the first cast by pulling the ends of the 

 string towards each other. These two pieces are then removed, and 

 the three are found to fit to each other in the most perfect manner. 

 The process is thus completed ; I have found it attended with little or 

 no difficulty, and as I have manipulated on a number of hill tribes 

 who are generally difficult people to manage, I fully expect to be able, 

 through time, to have life busts of all the accessible Indian races. 



These busts will prove of considerable value when crania cannot 

 be obtained, and there is no country in the- world in which the 

 craniologist finds greater difficulty in obtaining materials for study 

 than India, where the inhabitants either burn their dead or regard 

 their remains with superstitions awe. 



Dr. Partridge, as Secretary to the Falconer Memorial Committee, 

 presented a marble bust of the late Dr. H. Falconer to the Asiatic 

 Society. He stated that 44 members of the Society had subscribed 

 Us. 20 each for the purchase of the bust, and two subscriptions have 

 yet to be realized, but even then a balance of Us. 110 would be still due 



