Murray, G. W.

Correspondence and other papers relating to North Africa and SW Asia.

1. Correspondence 1963-1966 with R. A. Bagnold, Gertrude Caton-Thompson, Walter F. E. Resch and others.

2. 'A remarkable method of irrigation' by B Hellstrom. A bound typescript presented to G. W. Murray. Letter from H. J. Fleure to Murray, 21 January 1950 attached to fly leaf.

3. Typescript, including photographic prints and maps of 'Dare me to the desert.' In four sections.

4. Typescripts (?unpublished) on 'Porphyry', 'Trogdytica', 'Sinaii.'

5. Bound volume of offprints including: 'Desiccation in Egypt' and others 1949 and 1951 with ms notes inserted. Eight photos of Western Desert, Egypt and Sinai (landscapes) mounted on album leaves.

6. Collection of annotated offprints, notes, letters and news cuttings relating to the morphology of the desert. Donated by Mrs Edith Murray and deposited at her request by Mr K. S. Sandford, 11 October 1971.

6.1.
Offprint of 'Das Quarter der Levante' by Max Pfannenstiel, from Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur 1953, with translation by G. W. Murray.

Offprint of 'Archaeologische Fundstellen Ober-Mittelagyptens in ihrer geologischen Landscahft' by Karl W. Butzer, from Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts Abteilung Kairo, 1961.

Offprint, 'Studien zum vor-und fruhgeschichtlichen Landschaftswandel der Sahara' by Karl W. Butzer, from Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, 1958 with translation by G. W. Murray.

Further pages of typescript ) p.20-73) on climatically caused landscape changes in Egypt. Maybe the translation of some other article or maybe the work of G. W. Murray, note by Sandford.

Letters from Dr Pfannenstiel, J. Arkill, 'Tipp' (O.H. Little) and copy of letter from Murray to Pfannenstiel, 1955-58.

6.2.

Offprint of 'Kulturhistorische Erwagugen zur Herzkunft der Rinderzucht in Nordostafrika' by Walter F. E. Resch from Paideuma, July 1964 with translation by G. W. Murray.

Offprint of 'Felsbilder aus Nord-Kordofan' by Resch from Paideuma, December 1964.

Offprint of 'Eine vorgeschichtliche Gradstatte auf dem Ras Samadai' by Resch from Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 1964.

Offprint of 'Wie kam das erster Hausrind nach Afrika' by Resch, from Umschau in Wissenschaft und Technik Frankfurt, n.d.

Offprint of 'Die kleinafrikanischen Felsbilder im Lichte der neueren Forschung' by Resch, published by Akademische Druck-u. Verlangsanstalt Graz, n.d.

Ms translations by Murray of various articles by Resch: 'New discoveries of rock drawings in the eastern desert of Egypt', 'New finds of rock drawings in the Egyptian eastern desert'. 1963.

6.3

'The Ababda' by G. W. Murray: lecture at the Sudanic Institute of Cairo, 8 March 1950. Survey Department Paper 51.

'The work in the desert of the Survey of Egypt' by G. W. Murray. Extrait du Bulletin de i'Institut Fouad Ier du Desert, 1952.

'The Egyptian climate: an historical outline' by Murray published in Geographical Journal 117, 1951 and here updated by Murray.

'The water beneath the Egyptian western desert' published in Geographical Journal 118, 1952, with some amendments here by Murray.

'A new empire copper mine in the Wadi 'Araba' by Murray published in Annales du Service des Antiquities de I'Egypte.

Folder marked 'Desert data correspondence October 1963'. Contains a letter from Capt. E. E. Evans-Pritchard to Murray and three detached pages of typescript.

Eight photographic prints, western desert, Egypt and Sinai.