Anticipating the birth of St. Valentine by centuries, love missive of 300 B. C., has just been discovered. Not only is it a valentine of the best sort, but it also goes to prove the existence of affinities in those far gone days in Egypt.

The discovery is that of an Egyptian love letter of the third century before Christ, written on papyrus by a priest to a priestess of the Temple of Amena-Ra and just discovered on the withered breast of the woman's petrified body in the Golden Gate Park Museum, San Francisco.

The discovery was made by the curator, Dr. George Barron, and his assistants while rewrapping the mummy, which had been roughly treated in a recent move from one case to another.

As yet the message has been translated only partially, but Dr. Barron says a free construction of it gives the following meaning.

"O Golden Poppy, long are the days when my eyes behold thee not. My heart is sick with love for thee-love that finds but little solace here amid my brethren. Carefully guard our secret lest my life and thy life pay the penalty of our unrighteous love.”

FIG. 11.

Meso-phylo-morph Sketch Map of the Old World showing the present location of the Hypo-phylo-morph showing the direction of their migrations. The Hyper-phylo-morph is represented by curved lines with arrows triangle with fringed edges.

The high central plateau of Asia is represented by an irregular