610 Germinating Powers of Mummy Wheat. [Oflober, 
done vvherf asl 
and afterwards planted. ^ Lawes, one 
a'r> cnm lm it will be observed that oil J • . 0 . 
to those of recent growth, and ^en ‘housan s could 
preserved for many ^eats^h that ^Sir^J.^Dcontrjbutions to 
botanical literature have a world-wide j n Jo 
innumerable attempts to s ''f the seeds found by Mr. 
vitality have each and all faded ; that the 10 “ ^ the 
John M-f d ' e | e ° a r ',^ e c Vfta mummy case, bearing all the out- 
i°lnt appearance of nerer having been m 
planted, produced oats ; that al 1 those wntms^l refer t0 any 
the power of ancient wheat K Candolle,* that the 
specific instance, and admit hk n e n ,: n d t ! into the sarcophagi 
fradulent introduction of modern plan s nto £ 
of the mummies is a po of gra ns of maize (a 
lating an instance of the d, score y ot cases> and 
plant of American origin) in | one ol t . , a X that Mr. 
v‘lr mlluart’M P an old travellei’ in Egypt, and who is 
\ilheis Stuait, M. •> people of that country, em- 
thal*he A rabs do not hesitate to enclose 
and such like antiquities. 
Sandymount, Dublin. 
* Origin of Cultivated Plants 
