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Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. F. G-altow, General Pitt- 

 EiVERS, Professor Flower, Professor A. Macalister, INIr. F. W. 

 EuDLER, Mr. E. Stuart Poole and Mr. Bloxam {Secretary), 

 appointed for the purpose of procuring, with the help of Mr. 

 Flinders Petrie, Racial Photographs from the Ancient Egyp- 

 tian Pictures and Sculptures. {Drawn up by Mr. Petrie.) 



The Committee charged with the administration of the grant voted at 

 the last meeting of the Association for the purposes of obtaining racial 

 photographs from the Egyptian monumeuts, after consulting on the most 

 effective means for the purpose, and considering the list of subjects and 

 the practical details of the matter, placed the carrying out of the object 

 in my hands, on the understanding that I should follow the lines agreed 

 on, so far as circumstances permitted. Since my return to England, and 

 submitting a preliminary report to the Committee, they have requested 

 me to prepare an account of the work which should serve as their own 

 report to the present meeting. 



After receiving a first list from Dr. Poole, and a long and full state- 

 ment of desiderata from Rev. H. G. Tomkins, the list of subjects was 

 decided on ; and these have been reproduced, unless prevented by the con- 

 dition of the monuments. Besides these a great number of other subjects 

 have been taken, in course of a full search at Thebes for all racial figures. 

 The first idea was only to obtain photographs ; before starting, however, the 

 Committee fully agreed on the importance of taking casts of the sculpture 

 where photography would be diflBcult. And in actual work I never took 

 a photograph if it were possible to take a paper cast ; the larger scale 

 and better representation of a cast, and the facility with which a photo- 

 graph can be taken from it afterwards, under the best circumstances, 

 instead of on a high wall or in a bad light, rendered this way far the 

 most satisfactory. The results are that, instead of a collection of photo- 

 graphs only, there will be finally (1) a series of about 150 casts, com- 

 prising 268 heads, which will be presented to the British Museum ; 

 (2) other selected sets of casts from the paper moulds, which can be ob- 

 tained for museums on application to me ; (3) a series of forty photograph 

 negatives of paintings, and a series of photographs from all the casts, 

 excluding duplicates ; (4) prints of all these plates, which can be ordered 

 from Mr. Browning Hogg, 75 High Street, Bromley, Kent, at cost pi-ice ; 

 the charge for printing is 2s. 3d. per dozen if selected from a loose set ; 

 or 45s. for the whole, mounted on printed sheets in a case. 



The following is the list of casts and photographs so far as they 

 can be yet named with certainty ; the names of the people represented 

 are, however, often not given, and still oftener destroyed ; but yet the 

 race may be determined by comparison with other sculptures which show 

 the same dress or characteristics, and also by the general subject of a 

 whole scene, after the detailed names have been lost. 



Some subjects which were proposed have not been done, owing to the 

 injury or destruction of the sculptures, and particularly to the bad state 

 and dirt of the paintings, which made photography often impossible. On 

 the other hand, many of these casts are from subjects not named in the 

 original request. 



