SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. 801 



these discoveries represent. The society was organized March 13, 

 1897, and is the outgrowth of two movements the interest shown 

 for some years by Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson in securing sub- 

 scriptions to the Egyptian Exploration Fund, and the later in- 

 terest shown in the same by the Woman's Club. The society 

 raises a considerable sum yearly, one half of which is given to the 

 Exploration Fund, and the balance to the Egyptian Research 

 Account, both of which are practically under Mr. W. Flinders 

 Petrie's direction. Mr. Petrie has sent a considerable quantity of 

 valuable, recently discovered material to the university, which, 

 with the material already secured by Dr. Breasted, forms the 

 Egyptian collection of the Haskell Museum. It comprises a rep- 



FiG. 9. Haskell OniENTAL Museum. 



resentative series of pottery and household utensils, chess board 

 and men, matrices or molds for ornaments and charms, talismans, 

 gods, rings, pendants, etc. A full series of the pottery of the 

 remarkable people discovered by Mr. Petrie opposite Koptos in 

 the winter of 189-l-'95 has been sent by that explorer. Among 

 recent additions of interest from the same investigator are m^ny 

 of value because bearing royal names ; thus, a sandstone tablet 

 shows Thothmes IV worshiping Amon, with a line of inscription 

 commemorating his' overthrow of the barbarians. Several sun- 

 dried bricks are stamped with royal names, and a fine series of 

 jar tops are signed and sealed. Some pieces of gold foil also bear 

 signatures. There is some good carved work in stone, among 

 other pieces a magnificent bust of the goddess Sekhmet. Of 

 wooden tablets, two bearing scenes representing the deceased 

 before Osiris were exquisitely done. In the last shipment re- 

 ceived was a fine lot from the old empire representing the fifth 



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