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back is most often wanting (p. 94) seeing that I have found it in 
40 cases out of 42 mummies examined. The statement on p,94 : 
"tout ce qui ne devait pas être apparent était systématiquement 
néghgé par les embaumeurs" is altogether misleading, for the 
process of packing was in most cases most carefully performed in 
every region of the body, irrespective of its situation. M.Fouquet's 
further remarks concerning his inability to detect the openings 
for introducing the packing accords as ill with his statement : — 
"J'en ai toujours trouvé une à chaque bras et à chaque av^ant- 
bras, une pour chaque cuisse et pour chaque jambe" (p. 93), as 
both expressions of opinion fail to receive confirmation from the 
photographs ilkistrating the present contribution. 
The statements attributed to Professor Lacassagne are even 
more misleading. " Quelques-uns de ces tissus et les linges qui les 
touchaient, ont pu fournir, au professeur Lacassagne à qui je les ai 
envoyés à Lyon, la réaction de l'hémoglobine caractéristique des 
tâches de sang" [op, c/f.,p. 93). No one has a wider knowledge 
of all tlie most modern tests, chemical and biological, for blood 
stains nor a better acquaintance with these methods in medico- 
legal practice than my colleague, Professor W. A. Schmidt, of 
the Cairo School of Medicine. Dr. Schmidt has examined large 
numbers of pieces of stained cloth and pieces of highly vascular 
tissues from a large series of mummies : he tells me that he has 
been utterly unable to recognise the presence of haemoglobin, 
although the tests in use now are immeasurably more delicate 
and sure than those in use ten years ago. All the reddish stains 
on linen were found to be due to resin. 
" Un fragment de peau d'une autre momie a permis à l'éminent 
médecin légiste d'affirmer que la mort du sujet avait été causée 
par l'immersion et que le cadavre avait diï séjourner plus de 
quinze jours dans l'eau" (ojj. cit., p. 93). 
How did M. Lacassagne recognise from a piece of skin the 
