Auguste MARIETTE (1821-1881). L.A.S., Cairo March 3, 1868; 3 1/2 pages in-8, headed Service de conservation des Antiquités de l'Égypte. Excavations. He praises Henry Pereire for coming to see him and study the antiquities; he speaks of the high cost of living in Egypt because of the American war, and of his modest salary. Then he talks at length about his Mémoire sur la Mère des Apis and the religious doctrines concerning Apis...