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By W. Clarysse

Volumes comprising ninety six papers on Egyptian faith within the Graeco-Roman interval: archaeology, prospography and artwork background. A sampling of papers: Anubis sur le coffret d'un pretre heracleopolitan (Marie-Cecile Bruwier); Beer for the gods of Memphis within the reign of Amasis (Anthony Leahy); a few feedback at the colors of Apis and different sacred animals (Rene L. Vos); Les restaurations et ameliorations d'epoque greco-romaine du temple de Khonsou a Karnak (Francoise Laroche-Traunecker); The other halves of Horus and the Philinna papyrus ( Robert Ritner); The courting of the papyri Joseph Smith I, X, XI and Min who massacres his enemies (Marc Coenen).

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His mother bought him Humphreys' The Coin Collector's Manual and he would spend his small pocket money on random piles of coins,' taking them home to sort and identify. William encouraged these interests as much as he dared; when he was ten he took the boy to the Geological Museum in Jermyn Street, where "he was delighted, and named the specimens as he saw them, with very creditable proficiency. I was amused to see that he was most interested not in the striking or large or brilliant things (as an ignorant person would be) but with things of which the chemical composition and crystallization was curious or unusual.

He chatted to people in trains about Smyth's latest book and induced the local bookseller to stock it. The pyramid theories all rested upon linear measurements; it was clear that more of these were desirable and indeed necessary-Piazzi's had been rather those of an astronomer than of a professional surveyor. William made plans to go out with Piazzi Smyth to Egypt inJanuary 1872; in December he had assembled his instruments, ordered suitable leggings and even designed a travelling case for his false teeth; but an innate reluctance to come to decisions, and perhaps also dread of travel into the unknown, gave him pause.

That same evening he attended the parish church and was pleased to find the preacher "very excellently low". 20 went to call my father who was very valiant overnight about being off early, but though he was not asleep he did not like stirring. " It was ten before he appeared on the site and Flinders resigned himself to doing most of the work, planning his surveys so that operations in which two people were indispensable were left for late in the day. In six days the survey was finished. Their surveying chain was a new one 1,000 inches long, devised and made by Flinders, with lozenge-shaped links of steel wire and so contrived that tension could be maintained by a spring with a catch in one of the handles; it proved much lighter and more accurate than the one they had used before, and made their task much easier.

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