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combustion and ebullition, from the soft parts, particularly 
the muscles, the singularly distinct fibres of which, beau- 
tifully arranged and displayed, the Society will not omit 
remarking. 
In examining the dissected parts of the mummy, which I 
have carefully displayed for public inspection after the meet- 
ing, the Members will not fail being struck with the differ- 
ence that exists between the two nates detached from the 
body. The one has been left in the state in which it was 
handed down to us by the Egyptian embalmers, dark, tanned, 
contracted, and impregnated with the mummifying ingre- 
dients ; the other, on the contrary, has been deprived, in 
toto, by my process, of those ingredients, (the principal of 
which is bees wax, as will be seen from the quantity which 
I collected ) ; so as to appear like the same part in a recent 
subject, soft, elastic, of a yellowish white, with the cutaneous 
pores very distinct, and with its muscles, adipose substance, 
and blood vessels perfectly striking. 
The sixthy and last fa.ct to be noticed, is the presence of 
several moderately sized lumps of an earthy matter, mixed 
with pieces of resin, found loose in the cavity of the abdomen. 
That these were thrown into that cavity for the double pur- 
pose of filling up the space left in it by the abstraction of some 
of the viscera, and of adding, at the same time, to the anti- 
septic power of the process employed in embalming, are 
conjectures that will perhaps be readily admitted. The ex- 
periments made to ascertain the nature of the earthy substance 
in question, tend to prove the latter part of these conjectural 
propositions. It was found to consist of the same saline com- 
jx)unds, noticed on the surface of the mummy, mixed with 
