Folder titled 'Rekhyt bird, Rhinoceros, Snakes, Graffiti of animals, Libyan Desert, Various Mammals' containing five handbound notebooks titled 'The Rekhyt-Bird', 'Rhinoceros', 'Snakes', 'Graffiti of Animals - Libyan Desert', 'Various Mammals' and some loose notes.

Notebook titled 'The Rekhyt-Bird' includes notes and draft on the rekhyt-bird and Newberry's identification of it with the Crested Bustard rather than the Plover. Also includes:

-Notes on bustards including photograph

-Use of the hieroglyphic sign in the name of King Aha

-Drawings and tracings of the rekhyt-bird

-Cuttings from publications of depictions of the rekhyt-bird in tomb scenes

-Rubbing and cutting of a slate palette fragment (Cairo Museum, CG 14238 bis) (TopBib v.105A)

Notebook titled 'Rhinoceros' contains notes on the rhinoceros and tracings.

Notebook titled 'Snakes' contains notes on snakes including references to snakes or the serpant god, snake cults, cobras, and winged snakes. Notes include a reference to 'small card index "snakes"' and 'folder serpents'. Notebook also includes two loose pages which appear to have been inserted by Diana Magee. These pages are a handwritten draft of Newberry, Percy, 'Fy "cerastes"', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 34 (Dec., 1948), p. 118 (OEB 1466).

Notebook titled 'Graffiti of Animals - Libyan Desert' contains notes on rock graffiti and prehistoric rock engravings, notes on the Libyan Desert including a bibliography and a draft titled 'On the former fertility of the Libyan desert'.

Notebook titled 'Various Mammals' includes notes on cats including a tracing, the wolf, fox and jackal including tracing, the mouse, the rat, the hedgehog or porcupine, mythical animals and domestication of animals. Also includes:

-Cutting of images of a carved handle of a ceremonial knife (Metropolitan Museum, 26.7.1281)

-Drawings on a board of animal heads including oryx, ibex and dorcas gazelles.

This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Flora and Fauna 2'.

Annotated off-print:
Murray, M. A., 'Notes on some genealogies of the Middle Kingdom', in Ancient Egypt (1927), 45-51 (OEB 145972).

Annotated offprints and photocopies, arranged alphabetically by author.

Annotated typescript titled "Religious Texts":

• p. 1-30: Introduction (p. 1-7) and footnotes throughout.
• p. 1-154: Translations.

• Cigarette card (2 copies) issued by Churchman's Cigarettes from the set titled: 'Treasure Trove: A Series of 50' (1937).
• No. 27: 'The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen: Interior of Antechamber'.
• Painted version based on Harry Burton photograph P0007.
• View of the north half of the Antechamber showing objects in situ with the guardian statues on either side of the intact doorway to the Burial chamber.

16 letters from Anthes and 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Anthes.
Majority of the content is personal; Anthes communicated his wartime circumstances and subsequent career development, as well as the German Egyptology situation after the war (WWII). Černý provided professional information, as well as material assistance in the form of food rations sent to Anthes in the 1940s.
Anthes and Černý exchanged information on ostraca discoveries, Černý updating Anthes on new finds at Deir el-Medîna during the 1940s and 1950s. Anthes recipricated by supplying information regarding finds during excavations at Mît Rahîna.

1 letter from Antonovyč, a Czech student in Strasbourg.
Acknowledgement of Černý's help and advice.

Notes and annotated photocopies relating to the Apa John archive in the John Rylands Library, including an unpublished draft of ‘The Archive of Apa Johannes’, by Dr Malcolm Choat, of Macquarie University, Sydney, with annotations by Sarah Clackson.

Copies of 6th century Aphrodito papyri (Coptic).

Includes letter from Charles Kuentz, 10 October 1933; copies of Lacau's copies of the papyri, November 1909 and photograph by Émile Brugsch for Gaston Maspero of one of the papyri found at Aphrodito by Gustave Lefebvre in 1905/6.

Letter from Edward H. Appleton relating to the loan of two tents.

Note:
This letter is also numbered 110

Letter from F. Gerald Apthorpe mainly describing his work and giving his new address.

Correspondence.

Howard Carter's brief manuscript notes for Arab el Atiat (Arab al Atiyat) ("K. 354"), East Bank, Middle Egypt.