Report of the Committee of Management of the Griffith Institute.

The Committee of Management.

Dr O'Hanlon and Dr A. Bowman joined the Committee of Management. Mr T. G. H. James retired from the Committee in May 1998.

Staff.

Mrs Lindsay Charlesworth's contract ended at the end of February when Mrs Sue Hutchison returned from maternity leave. Mrs Charlesworth will continue to be employed by the Institute on a part-time basis.

Topographical Bibliography.

The text of the first two parts of the new volume (8, Objects of Provenance Not Known: Statues) has been proof-read and indexed and the camera-ready copy prepared for publication.

Archive.

The negatives of J. de Monins Johnson, made during his excavations at Antinoë in 1913-14, have been printed and partly made available on the Griffith Institute's web pages.
The work began transferring the catalogues of the manuscript material of Sir Alan H. Gardiner onto the web pages.
Some papyri fragments have been transferred from the papers of F. Ll. Griffith to the Department of Antiquities of the Ashmolean Museum.
In preparation for the move to temporary premises, the Archive has been officially closed since the beginning of March. Visitors have, however, been allowed to use the archive material in exceptional circumstances.

Donations to the Archive. Mrs I. E. S. Edwards presented some items from her late husband's Egyptological papers.

The Gardiner Travel Scholarships.

Awards have been made to Mr Amr Kamel Shehata Omar, Mr Mohammed I. Abu El Atta and Ms Sally-Ann Ashton.

Computerization.

Our home page on the World Wide Web (../Griffith.html) had 15,206 visits from 12,390 sites.

Other activities.

J. Malek continued to act as President of the International Association of Egyptologists. He lectured, at the invitation of Fundació Arqueològica Clos, on the tomb of Tutankhamun in Barcelona and Girona in November 1997.
D.N.E. Magee continued to serve as a member of the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Society.

Griffith Egyptological Fund.

This has now been formally transferred to the Board of the Faculty of the Oriental Studies.

Grants and donations.

Grants have been made to Dr Maria Brosius in support of a workshop on Archives and Archival Tradition, and to the Annual Egyptological Bibliography.
A set of the Topographical Bibliography was presented to Cairo University Library.

Visitors.

Visitors, mostly from abroad, have worked in the Archive or consulted the Topographical Bibliography records on 180 occasions.

(May 20, 1999)

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