Folder titled 'Fauna: Birds' containing a handbound folder titled 'Birds'. Folder includes notes on different species of bird including the crested ibis and the Egyptian vulture including drawings. Also includes cutting of a photograph of a mechanical bird trap and a list of Arabic names of birds.
This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Flora and Fauna 2'.
Correspondence from Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing relating to Newberry's excavations and other finds and seeking Newberry's opinion on texts and articles.
Note: MSS 5/4 is also numbered 46 MSS 5/5 is also numbered 26 MSS 5/6 is also numbered 27 MSS 5/6A is also numbered 24
Letter from Marcus W. Blackden offering to work with Newberry at Beni Hasan; Correspondence to Blackden from Newberry making arrangements; Letter from George Willoughby Fraser (also signed by Blackden) to [A.H.] Grueber requesting the transfer of the listed property from Minia to Beni Hasan.
Note: MSS 5/8 is also numbered 115 MSS 5/9 is also numbered 138 MSS 5/10 is also numbered 118 MSS 5/11 is also numbered 139 MSS 5/12 is also numbered 137 b MSS 5/13 is also numbered A 87
Correspondence from Aylward Manley Blackman on topics including asking Newberry's advice in relation to employment; invitation to lecture; translations and other research interests; visits to Oxford.
Note: MSS 5/14 is also numbered 7 MSS 5/15 is also numbered 8 MSS 5/15a is also numbered A.91 MSS 5/16 is also numbered 26 MSS 5/17 is also numbered 341 MSS 5/19 is also numbered A 297 MSS 5/22 is also numbered A.38 MSS 5/24 is also numbered 16 MSS 5/26 is also numbered 45
1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Boardman. Correspondence concerned with Greek and Egyptian religion, Černý particularly interested in the tradition of carrying cult images on sacred barges.
Letter from May Louisa Bonar (who in 1946 married Sir Hugh Thornton) relating to Lady Petrie's appointment as Director of the British School of Egyptian Archaeology.
Correspondence from Ludwig Borchardt (1863-1938) dating of the great sphinx of Giza and king statues from Thebes in the Berlin Museum including sketches (1897); painting of the head of a princess orignially in the house of Captain Timmins (1914); inscription of Ay at Akhmim (1927) [in German].
Correspondence from Robert Carr Bosanquet (1871-1935) relating to donors to the Institute of Archaeology, Liverpool University; research interests; Oldbury Camp; family news.
Note: MSS 5/55 is also numbered 15 MSS 5/56 is also numbered 362 MSS 5/58 is also numbered 344 MSS 5/59 is also numbered 340 MSS 5/60 is also numbered 330 MSS 5/61 is also numbered 328
Correspondence between Alexander Bruce Boswell (Liverpool University) and Newberry relating to candidates for the Bremner Chair of Egyptology at Liverpool University.
9 letters from Bothmer, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Bothmer. Monuments in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Brooklyn Museum of Fine Art, new acquisitions for Brooklyn Museum, in particular, objects found at Deir el-Medîna. Bothmer arranged photography of Brooklyn Museum objects for Černý. Černý also mediated contacts for the museums in Prague regarding the Late Period material located there; Bothmer consulted these objects in 1933 and 1936, returning to the topic in 1958.
5 letters from Botti. Publication and off-prints exchange, social contacts and personal matters, as well as the compilation of Italian entries for Who was Who in Egyptology. Botti also refers to a congress of Oriental Studies held in Prague in 1949, which Černý did not attend.