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Show J-&K UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Berkeley A, California, U* S. A. AFRICAN EXPEDITION. March 25, 1949. Sadek Bey Gohar, Rector Farouk University Bulkeley Alexandria, Egypt. Dear Sir : Please forgive me for not having written for the last month or so. However, I have been extremely busy in continuing the work of the African Expedition in South Africa as well as making future arrangements from this side for work in Arabia and Sinai, I am enclosing for your interest a copy of our life magazine article which appeared this week on cur recent discoveries in South Africa. As Life has a circulation of over 26 million, which is the largest in the world, this story has done a great deal to keep up interest in the expedition's work0 Dr. Robert Broom, the 82-year-old palentjblogist and South Africa1s leading scientist, and the specimens arrive in New Xork in the next two days and I am taking him on a two-week lecture tour across America on his work with the expedition, I am also enclosing a picture story which appeared in the University's official newspapar. The other day I was happy to see Professor Mitwally in a newsreel which was shown here in the United States, "->. Would you please extend to him my best personal wishes and ^txJo^Jk-w?*/^Xtell him that as yet I have received not one single letter o r * W ^ U ^ ^-*AiCA' r*** {J^^iJ~>about this personally, as I can conceive of no possible-explanation for his silence, I am enclosing a copy of ~a letter just received from Dr. Luther Evans, Librarian of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. As you know, this is the world's largest library. The Library of Congress is very much interested in putting up funds, equipment and personail for our project of photographimg the ancient manuscripts at the Monastery of St, Catherine's in Sinai, If you will remember rightly , I discussed this project with you and I also discussed it with the late Nokrashi Pasha , who advised me to wait until the political situation cleared up a bit before we launched this |
