X OBITUARY NOTICES. 



fore him, which involved the reorganization of the Service, in such 

 a way as to ensure methodical explorations through the various 

 agencies, the French Archaeological Institute, the Egyptian Explora- 

 tion Fund, the German Oriental Society, and the American institu- 

 tions and certain individuals to whom permission to carry on the 

 work was granted. The former loose methods were abandoned and 

 the great monuments of ancient Egypt — such as the temples of 

 Luxor and Karnak — were protected against spoliation. 



A still greater task was his reorganization of the native museum, 

 involving the transfer from inadequate quarters at Bulak to a splen- 

 did construction in Khasr-en-Nil at Cairo. Through the fruitful 

 results of Egyptian excavations, the choice pieces of which remained 

 in the country, this Museum has become the finest collection of 

 Egyptian Antiquities in the world. At the same time such was the 

 wealth of material recovered and such the wise, generous policy 

 pursued by Maspero with his keen and unrivalled knowledge of Egyp- 

 tian Archaeology, knowing exactly what to keep and what to send 

 out of the country to enrich the museums of Europe and the United 

 States, the explorers received a suitable share of the discoveries 

 made. To have carried out such a task successfully is to bestow 

 the highest possible praise on the harmonious combination in one 

 man of undisputed authoritative knowledge, keen judgment, wise 

 tact, generosity, broadminded foresight and splendid executive abil- 

 ities. 



That during these years so fully occupied with executive duties 

 he should have found it possible to keep himself abreast with the 

 results of excavations carried on now by a large group of scholars in 

 all parts of Europe and this country, and to have continued his own 

 investigations in his contributions to the Recueil, to the publications 

 of the French Archaeological Institute of Cairo and to numerous 

 other journals, is a striking testimony to his marvellous powers of 

 work. The preparation of a catalogue of the great Cairo collection, 

 quite apart from the labor involved in its installation, would in itself 

 have absorbed the energies of the ordinary scholar, who was not en- 

 tirely swamped by the daily routine of executive duties. Maspero 

 found time to bring out several volumes of " Etudes Egyptiennes " 

 and to gather the memoirs and essays of French Egyptologists in a 



