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A CLASSIFIED CATALOGUE OF ANTIQUITIES COLLECTED BY 

 MR. HARRIS, AND NOW IN HIS MUSEUM IN ALEXANDRIA, 

 EGYPT. 



The Librarian conununicated a Catalogue Eaisonnc'e of the 

 private museum of Mr. Harris, of Alexandria in Egypt, made 

 from a numbered catalogue in MSS. sent to him by Miss Har- 

 ris, with a request that some purchaser in America be found 

 for the collection: as, owing to the vcrj" advanced age of her 

 father, the inestimable treasures of this classical collection 

 may at any time be scattered. Mr. Harris commenced the 

 collection at that early day when the rarest things could be 

 obtained, and for comparatively moderate sums of money. 

 Accompanied by his daughter, he was accustomed to ascend 

 the Nile every season for nearly twenty years, exploring the 

 tombs, and collecting geinune antiquities. The papyrus which 

 heads the list is perhaps the most perfect large papja-us ever 

 found, and would be a splendid acquisition by any society or 

 university in the United States. Americans are waking up 

 to appreciate the charms of the new science of Archaeology, 

 and unwonted interest has lately been manifested in pre-his- 

 toric human remains ; yet there are very few travelled Ameri- 

 cans, even those who have a taste for such things, and 

 read much about them, who know exactly what one should 

 expect to find in such a collection, or what it is desirable to 

 obtain for our new museums of Archaeology on this side of the 

 Atlantic. The following classified catalogue then may possibly 

 serve both as a specimen of what a museum of Archeology 

 should be, and as an indication of the kind of objects obtain- 

 able by zealous students and wealthy patrons of the science. 



I. PAPYRI. 



Papyrus of the Annals of Ramses II. (Sesostris) XlXth d}-- 

 nast}', found by Mr. Harris in a tomb at Thebes and not yet trans- 

 lated. This magnificent papyrus, about 300 feet long, consists of 

 116 pages, illustrated by pictures of battles, prisoners captured, 

 temples erected and mines opened, and gives statements of revenue 

 statistics and historical events of that reign, and is accompanied 

 by three large tableaux descriptive of the King offering to the 

 gods of Thebes, Memphis and Ileliopolis. It has been mounted 



