Archaeology Magazine - March 1950 - 58

havior of the fragments it is felt
that the central portion of the scroll
can be opened and the inscription
read. The main difficulty will be
the unrolling at the ends and indeed that may be impossible. It is
possible that the unrolling of the
middle can be done only at the
sacrificeof the ends especially if it
is certain that there is no inscription here. It is hoped that that will
not be the case.
South Arabian Expedition
Wendell Phillips, leader of the
well publicized California African expedition of 1948,is in the news again,
this time as president of the recently
formed American Foundation for the
Study of Man and as director of an
AFSM expedition which sailed on December 22, 1949, from Brooklyn for
Aden and Mukalla on the Gulf of
Aden, where they intend to set up a
base for the exploration of the archaeologically virgin interior of Southern
Arabia. Accompanying Mr. Phillips
are William F. Albright of the Johns
Hopkins University, ranking U. S.
Biblical archaeologist, Alexander

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Two Questions
If you saw the Odyssey
Growing on a cherry-tree,
Then you would inquire of me,
"Who composed this poetry?"
Now it's in the Library,
You've the face to answer me,
"Who composed it? Nobody."
Clever little cherry-tree.
- D. H.

Frank G. Speck, 1881-1950
Frank Gouldsmith Speck, Brooklyn-born archaeologist, sociologist,anthropology professor at the University
of Pennsylvania, expert on North
American Indian ethnology, linguist,
editor, and prolific writer on anthropological and related subjects (his The
Midwinter Rites of the Cayuga Long
House was just published in December), died in Philadelphia on February 6, 1950.

Honeyman, of St. Andrews University, Scotland, and a dozen other scholars and technicians; and the expedition will have the services of an airplane, fifteen desert cars, and other
appropriate equipment.
Herbert E. Winlock, 1884-1950
Herbert Eustis Winlock, Harvard graduate, Egyptologist, and former (1932-39) director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose archaeological reports were "scholarly yet so
lucid and lively as to make interesting
reading for laymen/' died in Venice,
Florida, on January 6, 1950.

Coin Room at Harvard
The Fogg Museum of Art of Harvard University, we are informed by
George M. A. Hanfmann, has established a Coin Room with Cornelius Vermeule, III, as volunteer
assistant in charge. The collectionsof
the Museum include the Edward P.
Bliss Bequest of Greek and Roman
coins, and the George Davis Chase
Collection, presented to the Museum
in 1942. A collection of ancient, mediaeval, and modern coins and medals,
previously located in Widener Library,
has also been deposited in the new

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