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Excerpt from Report on the Wolfe Expedition to Babylonia: 1884-85
Scarcely had the effort of securing the funds begun when we were informed that Miss Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, of New York, had generously offered to contribute the whole amount. The expedition bears the name of the Wolfe Expedition to Babylonia.
I was appointed to lead the expedition; and it was understood that Messrs. Clarke and Sterrett, who had been in the service of the Archaeological Institute of America at Assos and elsewhere, should accompany me. I undertook the work with not a little apprehension that the general preparation which my long interest in Assyriology had given me did not provide such a thorough and minute knowledge of the geography of Chaldea and of the cuneiform inscriptions as was to be desired. I still regret, for the interests of science, that some of the younger scholars of the country, who have made Assyriology their specialty, could not have taken the burden upon them. I have, however, done my part as well as my powers would allow, and must pass over the completion of the task to the more fortunate men who shall come after me.
I left New York Sept.6, 1884, and went direct to London, where I spent nearly three weeks, mostly working in the British Museum, under the direction of Messrs. Budge and Pinches. I also had the advantage of a day with Professor Sayce, at Oxford, consulting with him on the objects of this expedition. The information I obtained in England, and the advice and help most freely and generously given by the officers of the British Museum and others, were of great service to me. I was urged to make special inquiry as to the chief sources of supply of the tablets and other similar objects which are continually finding their way to Europe, and to remember that the collection of these small and inconspicuous written monuments is of the first importance.
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