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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo07amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION 57 THE EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION. INCOURAGING news comes from the expedition into the Desert of Fayoum for vertebrate fossils. Pro- fessor Osborn writes, under date of February 11, that help from Lord Cromer and Director H. G. Lyons of the Geological Survey has supplied the American INIuseum party with full equipment of tents, tanks and other supplies needed for life in the desert. He says, in effect: "In five days instead of the ten days estimated beforehand we were ready, and 1 despatched Daoud Mahommet, who had been out every year with Beadnell and Andrews of the British Museum, around by rail to Tamia on the western edge of Fayoum with instruc- tions to camp near the most easterly of the bone pits, which is about forty miles from the railroad. We left the Gizeh pyramids, twelve miles from Cairo, on Thursday morning, January 31, and that evening camped near the Sakhara pyramids, the tombs of ancient Memphis. Mr. H. T. Farrar, who had been detailed by Doctor Lyons to accompany us, joined our party here; so we were eight tents and twenty-one camels strong,— quite a big caravan and most picturesque. "Friday we went beyond the Dashur pyramid, and the following night we camped at Lish't, where the Metropolitan Museum excava- tions are in progress under the direction of Doctor Lythgow. Sunday we traversed the desert and reached Tamia on the edge of the Fayoum oasis, and Monday night we made our first desert waterless camp. Tuesday, February 5, just a month from leaving New York, we reached our main desert camp and found that the men who had been sent around by rail had arrived two days before. We have secured seventeen diggers and eight camels for the transportation of water and supplies, and our camp of four tents under the charge of Mr. Granger and Mr. Olsen is between the two easterly bone pits. "The country has been thoroughly prospected on the surface, but careful and extensive quarrying with the thorough methods which we have used so successfully in our own West is certain to produce good Tesuhs. We have the best trained and the largest force of Egyptian workmen which has ever been at this locality, and our first search has produced several apparently new members of the smaller fauna, together with excellent jaws and isolated teeth and bones of the larger forms."

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