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Item Newsletter Number TWENTY-TWO 30 June 1956(the American Research Center in Egypt, 1956-01-30)Item Newsletter Number SIXTEEN 28 January 1955(the American Research Center in Egypt, 1955-01-28)Item Newsletter Number Six January 14, 1953(the American Research Center in Egypt, 1953-01-14)Item newsletter number fifteen 13 December 1954(the American Research Center in Egypt, 1954-12-13)Item Newsletter, Number 31 (September, 1958)(American Research Center in Egypt, 1958-09)Dr. John Alden Williams, who has been awarded the Center's Islamic fellowship for study in Egypt during the coming season, has not been forgetful of the Center during the summer, which he has spent in visiting Islamic monuments in Spain and North Africa. The present Newsletter consists of extracts from his letters. While it contains nothing directly concerned with Egypt, it should prove of value to members of the Center who are interested in the art and culture of Islam.Item Newsletter, Number 36 (December, 1959)(American Research Center in Egypt, 1959-12)Appended to this Newsletter are the minutes of the Annual Meeting held on November 17. Members who were not present at the meeting are urged to read them with care. It may not be amiss, however, before presenting the communications received from this year's Fellows in Egypt, to draw attention to some of the points raised by the President of the Center, Mr. Edward W. Forbes, in his report to the meeting.Item Newsletter, Number 35 (July, 1959)(American Research Center in Egypt, 1959-07)At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Center held on June 30, Miss Elizabeth Thomas a member of long-standing and an able scholar in Egyptian archaeology, was appointed to make a survey of royal tombs of the Theban necropolis under the auspices of the Center. This survey will include a topographical study of such tombs, both within and without the Biban el-Muluk, a discussion of tomb-types, sarcophagi, and other significant features. Miss Thomas plans to begin her survey during the coming season. She has very kindly offered to undertake the work at her own expense, as a contribution to the Center.Item Newsletter, Number 34 (May, 1959)(American Research Center in Egypt, 1959-05)On Page 3 of Newsletter Number Thirty-two, it was announced by the President that the Center had received an anonymous gift of $10,000 and that this gift had been matched by Mr. and Mrs. John Dimick, who specified that their contribution was to be used for the maintenance of the Center’s office in Cairo. Since the President gave his report to the Annual Meeting, the same anonymous donor has offered a second gift of $10,000, provided the members of the Center can match it. The Treasurer has just announced that he has received securities from another donor, which has realized the sum of $2,341. 79. This is a long step in the right direction, but the members must be reminded that $7,658. 21 are still needed if we are to receive the promised $10,000.Item Newsletter, Number 33 (April, 1959)(American Research Center in Egypt, 1959-04)The following communications have been received from the Fellows of the Center in Egypt, Dr, Helen K. Wall, and Dr. John Alden Williams, Dr. Williams is temporarily in India, Mrs. Wall may be addressed at Morland House, 16 Sharia el Sheikh Barakat, Kasr el Doubara, Cairo.Item Newsletter, Number 32 (December, 1958)(American Research Center in Egypt, 1958-12)This Newsletter contains the report of the Annual Meeting. Following a custom inaugurated last year, it will begin with the report of the President, Mr. Edward W. Forbes. This will be followed by letters from the Fellows of the Center at present in Cairo and by other archaeological notes, and these, in turn, will be followed by the detailed reports made to members present at the Annual Meeting of November 18.