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Excerpt from Meroitic Inscriptions, Vol. 2: Napata to Philae and Miscellaneous As to the miscellaneous inscriptions, nearly all of which are now published for the first time, Dr. Budge gave me permission to re-publish the two stelae in the British Museum; Sir G. Maspero, with his accustomed liberality, gave leave to publish the altar in Cairo; Prof. Golenischeff most kindly contributed photographs Of three out of four stelae in his collection (now acquired for the Government Museum at Moscow), with permission to publish hand-copies; M. Benedite gave me a cast of a unique inscribed statuette, the only Meroitic monument in the Louvre collection; Dr. Rubensohn sent to the Berlin Museum for my examination a fragment in the Hildesheim Museum. Prof. Von dissing, Dr. Borohardt, M. Daressy, Dr. W. F. Hume, Prof. J unker, Prof. Spiegelberg, Prof. Steindorff, Mr. Weigall, and Prof. Wiedemann have all given me valuable information, chiey indeed of a negative character, regarding the Meroitic contents of collections in Europe and similar matters. To all these our thanks are due. To the staff of the Berlin Museum (and more particularly Prof. Schafer, whose friendly generosity throughout has been unsurpassable, ) the debt is so varied that it is difficult to express adequately my sense of obligation and admiration of their attitude to research. The collections acquired by lavish expenditure of their own labour and time and of public money, so far as they cannot make immediate use of them in their own publications, are at the disposal of any scholar of whatever nationality; in smoothing his path to them and removing every difficulty, these men, at once scholars and servants Of the entire scholarly public, consider that they are but doing their duty. While my enquiries have everywhere been met with most friendly courtesy, I may be pardoned for emphasizing the warmth of the response at the greatest repository of Meroitic material, on which really depended the failure or success o