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Dn Granville's essay on 
Egyptian mummies, and the extent of its contributions to- 
wards the elucidation of this interesting topic, if we except 
the little that Dr. Grew has said in his printed catalogue of 
the Museum of the Society in 1681. 
Nor had the inquiries of scientific men on the continent 
been more successful until lately. Thus Kestner, who de- 
scribed the mummy at Leipzig ; Hertzog who opened the 
one at Gotha, in which more idols, beetles, frogs and nilo- 
meters were found than had ever been met with under similar 
circumstances; Gryphius, who in the year 1662, gave an 
account of two mummies in the Dispensary of Crusius at 
Breslau ; and lastly Brunniel, who dissected the mummy at 
Copenhagen, found little more than fragments of bones, or 
whole skeletons in a dry and unsatisfactory state. Bruck- 
MAN and Storr, the one at Cassel, the other at Stuttgard, are 
quoted by Blumenbach, as having written on the subject of 
mummies ; but I have not had the means of procuring their 
descriptions, which, however, to judge from Blumenbach's 
language, contain no better account of the state of those spe- 
cimens of Egyptian art, than he himself had been able to 
give from his own experience. 
Long before either Doctor Hadley or Blumenbach had 
directed their attention to Egyptian mummies, Rouelle, an 
eminent French chemist, and Caylus, an antiquarian, had 
treated the same subject with minute precision, although not 
with better results. Of two papers, which the former had 
promised, one only was published in the M^moires of the 
French Academy of Sciences. In that paper, Rouelle has 
given an account of several mummies he had examined, with 
a view to ascertain the mode in which they had been em- 
