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'If you will look up Watt's *Dictionary of Economic Pro-
ducts of India* under Ephedra you will find it identified with
the sacred *Homa* of the Parsees. It could hardly have been
used as a spice, but contains a bitter principle and according
to Dr. Dymock "The Parsi priests say that it never decays".'

The identification of the plant found among the burial de-
posits of the autochthonous population of Lou-lan, with
the *Ephedra*, used in Zoroastrian ritual practice of the
present day as the representative of the ancient *Haoma*,
opens up a question of distinct antiquarian interest. It
reaches, however, too far to be discussed in this note, and I
must leave its examination for another place.

P. 267, l. 36. *After* grave-pits *add* (Fig. 159).

P. 269, r. col., l. 15. *After* L.F. 3. 03 *add* L.S. 2. 05.

P. 290, l. 42. *After* arrow-heads *add* (L.J. 01).

P. 292, l. 16. *For* February 15th *read* February 21st.

P. 366, l. 35. *For* T. xxxvii. b. 01 *read* T. xxxvii. a. 1.

P. 394, ll. 12–15. *For* T. xliii *read* T. xliii. k.

P. 421, r. col., l. 30. *Add* : Mr. H. Balfour, Curator of the
Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford, in a letter dated November 1,
1925, has kindly furnished me with the following note on
the use of the trap of which this spiked wheel formed a
part, and with a sketch illustrating it.
'The principle is this : The spiked wheel is laid over a
hole in the ground and concealed. A noose is placed over
the wheel, the loop of the noose lying over the ring of the
wheel ; the other end of the noose-cord being attached
either to a tree, or to a log. An animal placing its foot
upon the wheel causes the spikes to give way, the leg of the
beast sinking through into the hole in the ground. The
spikes hold firmly upon the beast's leg, and in endeavouring
to shake off the painful, spiky wheel, the noose (which is
supported by the wheel) is caused to draw tight and so the
beast is held fast—or has to trail a log along as it runs off.
Thus the wheel is not in itself the trap, but it functions as
an accessory in securing that the noose shall operate, the
noose being the real trap.'

Mr. Balfour at the same time informed me that types of
the wheel-trap above described are still used in different
parts of Africa and Asia, including India. A note on those
types and their geographical distribution was being pre-
pared by him for publication.

P. 440, l. 40. *For* Prof. von Lecoq *read* Prof. von Le Coq, *and
so elsewhere*.

P. 461, l. 31. *Add note 15b* : For some of the Mongol MS.
remains, see now Prof. von Le Coq's notes in App. *K*, ii.
p. 1049.

P. 492, r. col., l. 43. *For* Bhīmasparśa *read* Bhūmisparśa.

P. 499, l. col., l. 5 from below. *For* Bhīmasparśa *read* Bhūmi-
sparśa.

P. 541, note 11, l. 1. *For* Hermann *read* Herrmann.

P. 560, note 1, r. col., l. 8. *For* Yā-mēn *read* Ya-mên.

P. 576, note 25*a*. *Add* : For M. Maspero's corrected genea-
logy of the *Ch'ü* dynasty, see now his Appendix *A*, ii. pp.
986 sq.

P. 591, l. 44. *For* App. *R read* App. *P*.

P. 595, l. 32. *For* Kötek-shahri *read* Kötek-shahri.

P. 706, r. col., l. 22. *Omit* : Pl. LXXVII.

P. 708, l. col., l. 10. *For* Pl. CXXXI *read* Pl. CXXVII.

P. 736, l. 6. *Add* : See note 10a to p. 265, also p. xxi.

P. 743, l. 14. *Add note 1b* : For details of Alrāz-gul's route
from north of Altmish-bulak to Chainut-köl and thence to
the Kuruk-daryā, see now *Map of the Lop Desert*, in vol. iv.

P. 868, l. 3. *For* Fig. 402 *read* Fig. 403.
l. 4. *For* Fig. 403 *read* Fig. 402.

P. 885, l. 13. *For* largest *read* largish.

P. 886, note 2, l. col., l. 19. *Add* : An early form of the name
*Rāshān* is, possibly, preserved in a notice quoted from
Ktesias : 'Ῥοξανάκη· ἡ πόλις ἔνθα Σάκαις τὸ βασίλειον
ἦν (Nikolaos of Damascus) ; 'Ῥοξονοκαία· πόλις Σακῶν'
(Stephanus Byz.), as suggested by Tomaschek, 'Sogdiana',
*Sitzungsberichte der K. Akademie der Wissensch. Philos.-
histor. Klasse*, Wien, 1877 ; p. 113.
note 2, r. col., l. 17. *For* Wörterbuch *read* Namenbuch.

P. 888, l. 17. *After* 14,500 feet *add* (Fig. 394).

P. 899, l. 25. *For* Pl. XVIII *read* Pl. CXVIII.
*Add* : See also M. Hobson's Appendix *D*, ii.
p. 1016.

P. 900, l. 3. *For* (Pl. XVIII) *read* (Pl. CXVIII).

P. 927, l. 3. *Add* : With reference to this ribbed pottery Mr.
F. Ll. Griffith, Professor of and Reader in Egyptology,
Oxford, kindly informed me that in Egypt the occur-
rence of ceramic ware of this type is recognized as a sign of
late Roman and Byzantine times, extending into the
Arab period ; cf. Petrie, *Ehnasya*, 1904, ch. vii, viii ;
Pl. XXX sqq.

P. 931, note 2. *Add* : According to observations recorded by
Sir Henry McMahon, *Geogr. J.*, 1906, xxviii, p. 217, the
volume of water carried by the Helmand varies from 2,000
to 70,000 cubic feet per second in normal years, while a
volume of as much as 700,000 cubic feet has been estimated
in abnormal years.

P. 1028, l. col., l. 10. *For* L.M. ii. ii. 08 *read* L.M. ii. ii. 08. a.

P. 1031, l. col., l. 1. *For* L.M. ii. ii. 09 *read* L.M. ii. ii. 09. a.

P. 1050, l. 5. *For* Franke *read* Francke.