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Biographical material including history of the Egypt Exploration Society

Folder contains:

  • First page of a report titled 'Report on the work of the Archaological Institute' written by Newberry on his involvement establishing an Archaeological Institute at the University of Liverpool

  • Short history of the Archaeological Survey of Egypt (now known as the Egypt Exploration Society) by Newberry including his involvement, with hand written corrections and notes c.1931-2 (written for the 50th anniversary meeting of the EES (see AHG/42.222.33, Griffith Institute)), and list of Officers-in-Charge of the Survey, 1890-1932

  • Letter lists 1887-1892 with a short summary of contents and numbered, these numbers correspond to numbers written on letters held in this collection

  • Handwritten notes on the history of the Archaeological Survey of Egypt

  • One page of typed notes on people who worked on the tomb of Tutankhamun

Album of newspaper cuttings

Album of newspaper cuttings relating to the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, excavation of the tomb and finds. The album includes a partial index. Roughly half of the album has been filled.

Tutanchamon - Sonderheft Der Woche

Folder has been labelled 'German Publication (1924) of photographs from Tutankhamuns Tomb. (found amongst the material of the late Percy E. Newberry)'.

Folder contains a German publication titled Tutanchamon - Sonderheft Der Woche or in English Tutankhamun - Special Weekly Issue (OEB 151539) on the tomb of Tutankhamun. The pages of the publication are not in order within the folder. There are also two newspaper or magazine cuttings of an image of a buckle in the form of a leopard's head from a Sem Priest's robe, copyright 1923.

Publications including bibliography

Folder including versions of a bibliography of Newberry.

Includes:

  • Reprint, proof copy, typed draft and photocopy of Magee, Diana, 'The Egyptological Bibliography of Percy Edward Newberry (1869-1949), in JEA 76, 1990 (OEB 32075).

  • Correspondence relating to the bibliography of Percy Newberry, 1989.

  • Numbered list 1-61 of Newberry's publications under the title 'Extracts from my Note-books'.

  • Photocopy of Newberry, Percy E., 'Notes on the History of Medicine in Ancient Egypt', in The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions, 24 November 1888, p. 405-408.

Articles and obituaries

Folder containing photocopies of the following articles and obituaries:

  • 'Percy Newberry (1869-1949)', in Garden History 5(1), p. 45 (1977)
  • 'Newberry, Percy Edward (1869-1949)', Dictionary of National Biography 1941-1950 (Oxford, 1959)
  • 'Newberry, Percy Edward', Who Was Who 1941-1950 (1981)
  • Newberry, Percy, 'Gardening 6000 Years Ago' in The Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 678, 23 December 1899
  • 'Excavations at Thebes' read by J.E. Newberry, in The Builder, 5 November 1898
  • Newberry, Percy, 'Obituary Notices - Mr. Howard Carter', in Nature, 25 March 1939
  • Newberry, Percy, 'Obituary Notices - Sir Robert Mond F.R.S.', in Nature, 12 November 1938

Lectures

Copies of lectures by Newberry including:

  • Typed and handwritten lecture on foreign relations during the 18th Dynasty
  • Typed lecture on the debt of western civilisations to ancient Egypt
  • Handwritten lecture on the Delta as the origin of Egyptian culture delivered to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Brighton, 1948
  • Typed lecture possibly given at the opening of the Institute of Archaeology established by the University of Cairo, c.1925
  • Typed introductory lecture given in Cairo two years after the Institute of Archaeology was established by the University of Cairo on history and archaeology, c.1930
  • Typed lecture on the history of ancient Egypt and ancient Egyptian culture
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