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                  Kew Report through Prof. P.E. Newberry.
                                    TUT.ANKH.AMEN.

No 32 (x). Bulb of the Onion, Allium Cepa, L.
"Behind Shrine, West end. No Number." Bulb of the Onion, Allium 
          Cepa, L.

No 28 Partition Wall. Beams of varu/<i>ous kinds of wood.
           (1) Date Palm, Phoenix dactylifera, L.
           (2) Pine, either Pinus laricio or P.halepensis.
           (3) A very hard and close-grained wood, probably of a species of 

                Dalbergia from the Sudan.

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Shrine. The timber of which the shrine is made is remarkably heavy, 

and the specimen examined has been definitely identified by Mr 

Boodle of the Jodrell Laboratory of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

Kew, as a piece of Oak. It is not possible to identify it speci-

fically but it is si/<u>ggested that it may be Quercus Cerris, L. 

This is the first time that oak has been identified from ancient 

Egypt and it must, of course, have been imported from Syria or the 

coast of Asia Minor. The same is also true of the pine wood.