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Show Introduetion p. 5 approved fund. The answer was simple. The writer took out of his pocket the final account of the purchases together with a check ap-proximating $3,000 in the ñame of the University - with an apology that he 4éé not hawedtte time to exhaust the whole fund. The same experience was repeated in the summer of 1965 with WW ... * fi another fund of $10,000. Thus what had been left undone «fejt the pa##» .-K-^V-^.-V A " f • book buying expedition was expected to be accomplished in the second. The writer concentrated on acquisitlons from Egypt for the simple reason that the Arabic Library owed most of its substance, particularly in relation to the older works, to the eariy nineteenth century Búllq Press founded by Muhammad TAli. Besides» that was the country which the writer knew best, and he realizad that the older publications were becoming scarcer every day in a manner calling for immediate action. Luckily, most of the lacunae were filled, though some still remain. As to modern books, our lot was made easier by the passing of Public Law 480 by Congress. That law permitted the partial utiliaation of counterpart dollar funds in Egypt for the acquisition of all printed |