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Dr. Granville's essay on 
Independently of the information thus collected from the 
writings of different authors, calculated to convince me that 
chance had put me in possession of a better, and a differently 
prepared mummy from any that had hitherto been recorded’; 
many curious facts corroborative of that conviction, and 
capable of illustrating the anatomical history of mummies in 
general, were communicated to me by the late Dr. Baillie, 
by Sir E; Home, Mr. Brodie, Mr. Clift, and others. It 
would appear from their statements, that the inquiry into the 
condition of these singular preparations had, from time to 
time, engaged their attention ; and that if nothing very new 
or very interesting was discovered by those eminent anato- 
mists respecting them, the circumstance is to be attributed to 
the cause already alluded to, namely, the imperfect state of the 
mummies which fell under their inspection. Both the late 
Dr. Baillie and Mr. Wilson mentioned to me that they 
were present at the opening of a mummy by Mr. Hunter, 
who found it to consist of a mere skeleton, with the skin over 
it perfectly dry ; the whole presenting so confused a mass that 
no one particular part could be recognised. Mr. Brodie saw 
and examined three mummies that belonged to Lord Mount- 
norris, and which he found quite dry and uninteresting. 
Another mummy, brought to England several years ago by 
Colonel Leake, and at the dissection of which Mr. Brodie 
was also present in 1807, was not found in better condition. 
The same observation applies nearly to that which my friend 
Mr. Hamilton, the late Under Secretary of State for Foreign 
Affairs, sent to the College of Surgeons, and which was exa- 
mined by Sir E. Home, Mr. Brodie, and Mr. Clift, in the 
presence of Sir J. Banks, Mr. Hatchett, and others. Mr. 
