The Egyptian Exploration Fund.

The following is an extract from a letter by William C. Winslow, vicepresident of the Egypt Exploration Fund of America:-

"For the honor of American scholarship, and to represent our interests in the field as well at home, it is proposed to furnish an American student to aid in the explorations by the Egypt Exploration Fund of England and America. It is also most important to have one of our countrymen who is versed not only in Egyptology and in the recent 'results,' but who is personally acquainted with our work in situ. Mr. Griffith, the English student, has, in two or three seasons of work, attained an enviable place among archaelogical explores, and his investigations at the British Museum, in connection with our discoveries in Egypt, are of great value, as witness his letter in the Times of May 22 touching the statue of 'Joseph's Pharaoh' found by him and Naville at Bubastis in April. Our museums need an American to do similar work for science, to interpret 'things hard to be understood,' to tabulate coins, and indeed to deal understandingly with the many kinds of Egyptian antiques. We have important private collections wherein mines of knowledge await the mental pick and spade of the trained investigator.

"With the hearty co-operation of Professor Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard in the purpose above expressed, Mr. Farley B. Goddard, Ph.D., of Harvard, '81, who has written an admirable paper on 'Researches in the Cyrenaica,' conditionally accepts the position. Drs. Poole, Murray and Head, officials both of the Fund and of the British Museum, will afford every facility for a preliminary study at the museum, and Dr. Maspero, vice-president of the Fund for France, will do the same at the Louvre. A few months of such preparatory study will thus qualify the student to begin work with Naville in Egypt the coming year. One thousand dollars will meet the expenses of the student for 1888-9, and for this sum I now earnestly appeal to the American public. Subscriptions may be left with General C. G. Loring at the Museum of Fine Arts, or with Dr. Norton of Harvard.