ected honorary treasurer of the Fund for the United
States for the year 1883-84.* Many prominent residents became interested
and added their names to its membership, and have given it their effort
and their hearty financial support. Among the distinguished American
members have been J. R. Lowell, G. W. Curtis, Charles Dudley Warner, and
among the chief Canadian members are Doctor Bourinot and Dr. J. William
Dawson.

*The American subscriptions from the year 1883 rapidly
increased, and by the year 1895 had figured up to $75,800,
and the total number of letters and articles written during
that time had grown to 2,467. The organisation in America
consists of a central office at Boston, together with
independent local societies, such as have already been
formed in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. The Boston
office, and any independent local society, which subscribes
not less than $750 a year, is entitled to nominate a member
of the Committee. At the end of July, 1884, Doctor Winslow
had forwarded to London $1,332.20.

The Fund has always preserved amicable relations with the Government
Department of Antiquities in Egypt. Excavations are conducted by
skilled explorers, and the results published promptly with due regard to
scientific accuracy and pictorial embellishment. The antiquities found
are either deposited in the National Museum at Cairo, or distributed
among public museums in the United Kingdom and the United States of
America and Canada, in strict proportion to the contribution of each
locality. Exhibitions are usually held in London in July of each year.

The Fund now consists of three departments, for each of which separate
accounts are kept. These departments are: 1. The Exploration Fund, for
conducting archeological research generally, by means of systematic
excavations. 2. The Archaeological Survey, for preserving an accurate
pictorial record of monuments already excavated but liable to
destruction. 3. The Graeco-Roman Branch, for the discovery of the
remains of classical antiquity and early Christianity.

The first work of the Graeco-Roman Branch was to publish the recently
discovered Oxyrrhynchos papyri, of which two volumes, containing many
important classical and theological texts, were issued in 1898 and 1899
and 1900. Among its contents are parts of two odes of Pindar, of which
one begins with a description of the poet's relation to Xenocritus,