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may not be able to see these colours very well, but they are clear

in daylight, and although these specimens have been exposed

for the last five months to daylight<,> and often strong sunlight,

they appear to be unaffected. The next dish contains small frag-

ments </> of a different kn/<i>nd of cloth, in appearance rather like a 

serge, but it is linen. This particular fabric is extremely

fragile and difficult to handle. If one takes a piece of this

in a pair of forceps and give<s> it a slight shake, it collapses

at once into a heap of dust.

          Next is a dish of fragments of a very flimsy fabric

of wide mesh. This is diaphanous enough to be considered as a 

portion of the king's underlinen.

          Then there is a dish of miscellaneous threads, and lastly

a tiny yellow bead which I found among the material on its

arrival. It has evidently fallen off one of the garments: the

Egyptio/<a>ns were passionately fond of bead work and used many

thousands of beads on one robe.

          These specimens are not very large, but they are inter-

esting. They were the first things (I believe the only things)

to arrive in England from the tomb, so that they are unique.

The experiments we intend carrying out on them are not yet complete

so I shall not refer to them further.

          Before concluding<,> I should<,> I think, refer to present

and future work at the tomb. At present the archeologists^sic are

occupied with dismantling the several shrines which stand one

within the other in the sepulchral hall. Each of them so nearly

occupies as much space as the one nes/<x>t larger, that working from

the outside it is impossible to remove the largest one out of the

tomb, and then the next, and so on: there is no room for this.

The outer shrine must be dismantled first and laid against the