PACE SIX THE MICHIGAN ILY Ml JA-, -L7,iRV 21, PAGE 81X ~1DAY, JANUARY 31, University Archaeology Museum Gains Fame For Its Collections Germai Airmeti March In 1aLan City Dr. E.D. Mains Discusses Plant Photography In Illustrated Talk By GEORGE SALLADE Offering wide opportunities for re- search to architectural and classical language students and well-known all over the nation and world for its fine collections is the University Museum of Classical Archaeology. Archaeological collecting was begun at the University almost fifty years ago by Prof. Francis W. Kelsy of the Vatin department who served on the faculty from 1889 to 1927. The museum itself was organized in 1928, and it is now under the direction of Prof. John G. Winter, chairman of the Department of Latin. Mr. E. E. Peterson is Curator and Miss Louise Shier and Mr. Peter Ruthven are Assistant Curators. Ellsberg Collection Acquired. The museum possesses the greatest collection of Coptic and Islamic tex- tiles in the United States. Last year the famous H. A. Elsberg collection of these articles was acquired. From the ancient city of Karanis, Egypt, Where University archaeologists have excavated in the past years, one of the world's finest collections of first, second, and third century glass was obtained. The largest collection of Greco-Roman pottery dating from the late Ptolemaic times to the fourth and fifth century k.D. was also gathered there. More than 150 maps were made of the Karanis area with its mound of six -levels, and in the opinion of archaeologists represents some of the best documentation of an ancient city. that has yet been done. The museum also excavated a collection of grave stelae from the city of Tere- nousthis in the Delta of Egypt, some 70 kilometers from Cairo. Many Paprus Documents Pride of the museum, however, is its papyrus 'collection which is the largest in the United States and com- pares with the collections in the B:Vitish Museum, Oxford, and Berlin. It is from such papyrus documents that the background, living manners, arid culture of a period are determ- ined. A smaller but important collection is that of harnesses and ropes. Very little was known about these imple- U B=MMMW ments before. Wood articles also found in Karanis dispelled the mis- taken theory held by archeologists earlier that the ancient Egyptians imported their supply. It is now known definitely that they grew' their own. Other oddities in the museum are some toys used 1700 years ago including a small horse on wheels and an example of the earli- est Christian plate with a cross on it from the late third century. Rifle Squad Wins Meet Disci ion of his large collection colored plant pictures pertinent ' biological research was the theme :f an illus ated talk by Dr. Edwin D. Mains. profeior of botany and T rector of the University Herbarium, ct a meeting prior to the initiation ceremonies of Phi Sigma, national honorary biological research society, n the ;ackham Building Wednes- 'ay ight Entitled "Photography in Biol-' :gv". his talk concerned photomicroI ; hnique problems of background, lens, filters, and the obstacles of 'hade in obtaining impressions of all the plant parts. Ranging in subject matter from microscopic pictures of fungi to sci- enilic ph tographs of various trees, the collection was projected onto the back of Dr. Main's special screen, ihrough 1o the audience. Mr. Robert p. Kleemeier of the psychology department, president of the local chapter of Phi Sigma. di- rected the initiation rites of te 34 initiates. Graduates working at the University for advanced degrees. they were: Estafania J. Aldaba, Stewart Arm- itage, Clare Francis Bain, Robert C. Ball, Dorothy Belknap, Jean Lucille Bertram, Chen Ying Chou, Leonard H. Elwell. Colvin Gibson, Virginia Guild, Robert C. Hendrix, Raymond E. Johnson, Robert M. Lewert. Fred E. Locke, Herman H. Long, Robert James Lowry, Dorothy Marquart. Erasmus McCranie, Charles W. Mc- Neil, Carl B. Obrecht, Mary Louise Oswold, Edwin A. Phillips, John He- witt Pierce, Ruth Schorherst, Har- riet E. Smith, Fransesca Thivy, John V. K. Wagar, Seymour Wapner. Gor- don L. Watts, William Whitehorn, Katherine Whittier, Tooi Xoomsai, Julius Younger, and Max Richardson Matteson. Shooting Team Northwestern Defeats Men Breaking into the win column for the first time since they started Big Ten competition, the University ROTC Rifle Team overwhelmed a Northwestern University squad 1840 to 1757 in the match shot last night, Verne C. Kennedy, Jr., '42E, captain of the squad, announced yesterday. In their first two ventures into Big Ten shooting the squad came out second best, losing to Illinois in the opener and succumbing to a crack University of Indiana team in the second match. Each man recording targets for the match shoots four targets from prone, kneeling, sitting and stand- ing positions. Possible high score is 400, though anything over 370 is considered good. One minute is al- lowed for each shot, and ten min- utes is the maximum time allow-' ance for each target. Shooting against Northwestern this week were Richard O. Jones, '43E, Kennedy, George D. Hooper, '44E, Gordon A. Stumpf, '41E, and Albert D. Engstrom, '44. University Employee 83 Years Old Today George J. Lutz, a University em- ploye for 52 years, will celebrate his 83rd birthday today by doing his usual daily tasks as supervisor of the painting division of the depart- ment of buildings anid grounds. First employed by the University in 1888, Lutz worked as janitor in the library during his early yearsI on the campus. He now plans the work for 15 men in the painting de- partment, and despite his advanced years never misses a day's work. Members of the German Air Force wearing helmets and with rifles slung over their shoulders march through an unnamed Italian city while civilians-some with umbrellas-watch. Germany has sent planes and fliers to help Italy in \ler Mediterranean warfare with Britain. This photo was transmitted by radio from Berlin to New York. Baxter Calls Proposed Alaska Road Insufficient~~~ Fo eesv upss WANTIED 500 WOMEN - Friday and Saturday Who are interested in Real Bargains Our store closes Saturday evening. for 1 0 days, during extensive alternations Everything Must Be Sold! Mid-season and new Spring Hats . I By HOWARD FENSTEMAKERI The proposed international high- way which will extend through the interior of Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska, will prove insufficient for its primary purpose of Alaskan defense, Prof. Dow V. Baxter /of the School of Forestry and Conservation de- clared in an interview yesterday. The planned route will parallel the Rocky Moontains, going in a roughly northwesterly direction to the Alaskan border. This route will encounter a mi nimum of mountains, Professor Baxtr contended, but there would still be the necessity for a number of bridges and trestles, possibly tunnels and canyons, which would be easy to bomb, because of to many that an alternative plan would be possible. A few authori- ties in Alaska, however, have actu- ally conceived another route which would be more fully adapted for the defense of Alaska, as 'well as be- ing shorter, he added. The new route, which has been suggested to- Alaskan officials with few encouraging results thus far, would utilize the so-called "inside route," a waterway from Seattle to Skagway, Alaska, between the coast and a chain of islands which para- llel it. From Haines, near Skagway, a road would be built following the Dalton Trail, the earliest overland line of travel by white men to the, interior. At a distance of about 500 miles from Haines, the road would join the Richardson Highway, a road already constructed from Fairbanks southward to the coast. The advantages of this route, Pro- fessor Baxter asserted, are numerous. First of all, he said, the waterway I stretch could be protected with a minimum of effort, by laying mines between the islands which protect the inside route. Furthermore, it would be much easier to protect a' convoy of ships by air than to guard the entire length of a highway in the interior. 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