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The chief department, that of the Fund itself under M. Naville, Mr. T. Eric Peet and Mr. J. A. Dixon, excavates and determines obscrure historical finds, such as the two causeways discovered at Abydos last winter whose retaining walls are made of two rows of large horizontal pots supporting mounds of thousands of unused terra-cotta cups.

It now appears from the vast extent of Abydos and its many problems covering all the range of life from the earliest times to the Ptolemies, that this excavation must be made on the principle which produced such good results at Deir el Bahari. When work is resumed at the royal tombs the railway used for nine years at Deir el Bahari will be employed.

The Archaeological Survey Fund was organized in 1890 and the Archaeological Institute of America passed a vote endorsing the work. The publications of the Survey Fund record inscriptions, wall-drawings, and sculptures from the tombs, temples and monuments of Egypt. But in the coming two years Mr. F. Ll. Griffith and staff will copy the inscriptions of the Meroitic empire in the Sudan. These antique remains belong to races subject to Egypt for centuries and imbued with Egyptian civilization. Here the time limit is fixed; two years hence these remains will be far below the storage waters of the Nile.

The Graeco-Roman Branch, established in 1897, has engaged under Drs. Grenfell and Hunt, Mr. A. M. Blackman and Mr. J. de M. Johnson in the discovery and publication of the remains of classical antiquity and early christianity in Egypt. The nine volumes already issued include the earliest known texts of St. Matthew, St. John and St. Paul, the Savings of Jesus," now demonstrated to have been a separate Gospel, and a mass of fragmentary literature by classical masters and of documentary papyri which illumine the political, business, civic life of that age for our instruction and delight.

It is the rare privilege of every member of this Society to rank as partners in the unearthing of these treasures of historical truth, that have lain concealed for centuries. Often in recent years the shovel of the excavator has silenced the cavil of the objector and covered negative doubts with positive facts.

A little money goes a long way in Egyptian excavation, and your spade or mine may any day make history for which our era has waited some milleniums.

Haste is the watchword for the all too quickly passing days that roll up the scroll of winter into Egyptian years.

Every name mentioned above is upon our roll of honor, redeeming the time against the coming flood of great waters that in two years more will commence to cover the desert. At present 6.000 laborers strengthen the mighty Nilometer at Aswan with 23 feet of solid masonry along its face. Its towering height will rise above the flowing river 95 feet and the foundations in places descend 90 feet below the river's bed and clutch the primary rock to give footing to the huge wall of Cyclopean masonry. In two years travellers up the Nile will behold completed the eighth wonder of the world, but they will only see traces of beautiful Philae here and there as they float above her ruins upon a great inland sea reaching back 140 miles into Nubia.

Would that every tourist up the Nile and everyone interested in these famous monuments might do this work the honor to become a Patron and by sending $25 support a spade for a year.

SUBSCRIPTIONS AND MEMBERSHIP

Each subscriber to the year's work of not less than $5 receives (1) the illustrated volume of the reason; (2) the Archaeological Report, illustrated; (3) the Annual Report. Separate subscriptions of not less than $5 must be made for the volume of the Adchaeological Survey Fund or of the Graeco-Roman Branch. Patrons contribute $25 annually; Donnors give $10. A life-membership is $125 to either Branch. No other Society gives so much for a $5 subscription. It is hoped however that many will subscribe liberally, as the continuance of the invaluable work depends upon subscription. Renewal of a subscription or its implied intention constitutes membership. All services for the Fund by honorary officials are a gratuity.

A full list of publications, published in another sheet, will be sent upon application. There is also a special circular for the Graeco-Roman Branch.

Cheques should be made payable to the Egypt Exploration Fund and sent to Mrs. Marie N. Buckman, Secretary of the Egypt Exploration Fund for the United States, at the office, 527, Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass.

Official letters only for the undersigned should be mailed to the office of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 527, Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass.

DWIGHT LATHROP ELMENDORF,
Honorary Secretary for the United States.

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BARRAGE AT ASWAN, 1 1-2 MILES LONG, 65 FT. HIGH; PERMANENT ELEVATION TO BE 95 FT. ABOVE THE MEAN LEVEL OF THE NILE.

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