The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-10
THE EGYPT EXPLORATION RI NJ.
Announcement Of Important Changes In
This Interesting ORGANIZATION.

To the Jcp,roc or T,,r a,,S-q.,. Tna
Egypt Exploration Fund was founded in
1852 in England. and one wear later in
the United States for tho studv or ,ha
history and the ar,hno,oyv NJ J.gvnt and
the surrounding country since that ,Ime
a large number Of ancient .jt.s have bcen
excayated and tho ro.,,i,~ chta ,nod he,a
been Illustrated and described In a ser,e.
Of memoirs which has NOW reached tho
thirty-serond volume
In 1880 n spec,aI bra och NJ tho fund
the A,chpoloe,cai survey IVA. star,ed 10
undertake. tho conv,,v ana n,,hi,c. ,,on
Of tombr ana other monuments Of sne,,is /
iupnrfapco besoro tho, sbo,,Id v,,syar mr.
Their damage or deterioration. twentv
volumes of this vaiuobie undertaking
have aircadv onno.rcd ard o,hor. .ro In
prenaratIon
A third spbore n, tho .oc,syv,s nativity
has boen snec,siiv cornectsd with Nh.
ia v,,,, aud chose ,,rt. ~ Tho Mia Val
Law where rich Gpd. NJ nanvri NJ m. f,,m-
co. Roman ave have been discovered mir
teen Volumes of tho highest Importance
and n, ,ha ,r.a,as, ,n,ar.., have h.on
unfinished and thera .,,li remain. 4, the
nossession NJ ,ha .oc,e,v sufr,cier, ,n,,e-
rial for several ncw volumes
Thus the society has during the mas,
thirty wears nj its existence contributed
largely TO the advances which have been
made I'm Epyntolovical science and to
the knowledge OF ancient Egypt by the
consistent c,nployment Of scientific meth
DDS of work and by the steady prosccu-
ton OF It's aims
Nv combining the three separat
branches into one society having three
departments n wider srope OF usefulness
is attained and additional privileges Sc
cured to members Changes made among
the officers, Mr. H. r. HALL director Of
the Egyptian department of the British
Museum. liz elected honorary secretary
in England and the Rev Frederick George
Walker is APPOINTED organizing secre-
tary and editor of the Journal OF EoyD-
tan ArchaeoIoou In the United States
Mr.. Eckley Rrinton Coke, Jr. president
of the university museum. University Of
Pennsylvania. and founder and dlrec-
Tor of the Eclley Rrinton Coke. Jr., cx-
pedition to Nubia IN elected by the Amer
lean committee and appoln,ed from Lon
don the honorary secretary of the Egypt
E,xuloration Fund for the United states
Dr' dwight l., Elmendorr whose recent
lectures on Egypt at symphony Hall so
graphically Illustrated the funds work
~ Ahydos and pelr ei Rahari while con-
Guiding his valuable service OF three years
AS honorary secretary. continues his in
,sras. ,bronah life membership aud his
,id through the medium OF his lectures
on E,gvpt.
Ths committees also proroses a change
,r Tho uuhIjcn,ions issued nv tho So.
rie,v a n,iart.rlv Journal of y,gvptian
Archaeology will he issued containing re-
,n,,s -, axc,v,tion reviaws and shor,
notices az nublications and will form a
medium of Information ON Psychological
questions for all who are Interested in
the subject. whether specialists or other
WIS., such a publication has long been
requested by members of the fund The
ancient history of southeastern Europe
western Asia and E,gypt has received and
Ia s,iu recolvIup 40 much from fresh dis