Natural history . waited anxiously for low tide Thursday and then hastily constructeda rude cofferdam using ribs for piles and whale flesh for filling. Thiscontrivance, with one man actively bailing water and another vigorouslyshoveling- sand, enabled the rest of our force to secure the last hone-of the great beast, after two hours of the hardest work imaginable. The Wainscott whale, being smaller and higher on the beach, hadalready been secured and nothing remained to do but to clean the bonesthoroughly and ship them to the Museum, which finished a week ofhard but satisfactory work. In s
Natural history . waited anxiously for low tide Thursday and then hastily constructeda rude cofferdam using ribs for piles and whale flesh for filling. Thiscontrivance, with one man actively bailing water and another vigorouslyshoveling- sand, enabled the rest of our force to secure the last hone-of the great beast, after two hours of the hardest work imaginable. The Wainscott whale, being smaller and higher on the beach, hadalready been secured and nothing remained to do but to clean the bonesthoroughly and ship them to the Museum, which finished a week ofhard but satisfactory work. In spite of its commercial value, the whalebone of the Amagansettspecimen, weighing some 1700 pounds, was purchased by the Museumand will be mounted in proper position in the skeleton or the whole series of whale material now at the Museum will, whenmounted, make an exhibit the equal of which in its line is not yet tobe found in this country. The whalebone of the Wainscott whalewas not secured by the EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION 57 THE EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION. ^IXCOL RAGIXG news comes from the expedition intothe Desert of Fayoum for vertebrate fossils. Pro-fessor Osborn writes, under date of February 11,that help from Lord Cromer and Director H. of the Geological Survey has supplied theAmerican Museum party with full equipment oftents, tanks and other supplies needed for life in the desert. He says,in effect: In five days instead of the ten days estimated beforehandwe were ready, and I despatched Daoud Mahommet, who had beenout every year with Beadnell and Andrews of the British Museum,around by rail to Tamia on the western edge of Fayoum with instruc-tions to camp near the most easterly of the bone pits, which is aboutforty miles from the railroad. We left the Gizeh pyramids, twelvemiles from Cairo, on Thursday morning, January 31, and that eveningcamped near the Sakhara pyramids, the tombs of ancient H. T. Farrar, who had been detailed by Doctor Lyons to
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