She died June 1, 1854, in the month of roses, as she had wished, at the early age of thirty-seven. Though she said, "There is one who will be inconsolable," referring to her little Emily, she made no provision for her in her will other than for the rest of the children, to whom she had been a loving mother.

On a simple headstone, in the cemetery at Hamilton, N. Y., one may read the words, "Dear Emily." She had been dear to the lamented Judson, dear to the Burmese, whose language she spoke admirably, writing many hymns in their native tongue, and dear to the tens of thousands who appreciated her gifted mind, and the strength and beauty of her character.

AMELIA BLANDFORD EDWARDS.

DURING the winter of 1889-90, at the request of

twenty-five college presidents, and such men as Lowell, Whittier, Holmes, and Howells, Miss Edwards came to America to deliver a course of lectures on Egypt, which she had given with great success in England and Scotland. All who heard the gifted Englishwoman will always remember her cheerful manner and her warm heart, coupled with rare scholarship and such an enthusiasm for her subject as made everybody long to visit and explore the ancient country.

In every city where she spoke she was the recipient of social courtesies from the most distinguished. Columbia College had already, in 1887, given her the degree of Doctor of Letters (L. H. D.), and Smith College made her a Doctor of Laws, the first time such a distinction was accorded in America to a woman.

In England she had won an honored place. The Crown had recognized her services to knowledge by awarding her a pension from the Civil List. When the Orientalists held their Congress in Vienna in 1886, at the invitation of the Emperor, Miss Edwards's important paper was so much appreciated that it was at once published in French, German, and English.

When King Oscar invited the Congress to Stockholm, in

1889, Miss Edwards's paper treating of the Cypriote, Phoenician, and other signs upon the potsherds recently discovered in Egypt was of so much interest that the renowned Dr. Brugsch and others caused it to be read again in the African section of the Congress.

In 1883, in conjunction with Sir Erasmus Wilson and Prof. Reginald Stuart Poole, LL. D., she helped to found the Egypt Exploration Fund, which has done, and is still doing, an invaluable work. The collecting of money fell largely upon her; also the correspondence with the explorers who were carrying forward the researches in the Egyptian tombs and elsewhere; and the editing of the works of these men, besides presenting the results of their labors to the public through the London Times, the Athenæum, the Academy, and other journals. She watched every new discovery with delight. In Harper's Magazine for July, 1882, she wrote of the finding of the royal mummies now in the Bûlak Museum in Cairo. Prof. Maspero, in July, 1881, caused the arrest of some Arabs whom he suspected of concealing valuable treasures. These Arabs pointed out, at last, a buried tomb in Dayr-el-Bahari, where were found some thirty-six mummies of kings, queens, and high-priests. These are now in the Bûlak Museum.

In Harper's for October, 1886, she wrote on Tanis, the Joan of the Bible; in The Century for January, 1890, on the Temple of Bubastis.

Her last illness was brought on by a visit to the London docks, in November, 1891, to examine antiquities from Ahnas, which were to be distributed in England and America. In January and later, she rallied from pneumonia, but a relapse came, and she died, not at her home, "The Larches," near Bristol, but at Weston-Super-mare,