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ON October 1 of this year, Prof. John L/inton Myres, Wykeham professor of ancient history in the University of Oxford, will retire, and will be succeeded by Mr. Henry Theodore Wade-Gery, fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. Prof. Myros has occupied this chair since its inauguration in 1910, returning to his own University after three years as Gladstone professor of Greek and lecturer in ancient geography in the University of Liverpool-a chair which also he was the first to hold. His tenure of the Wykeham professorship had already expired under the ago limit, but was extended for a further period of five years. His appointment to this chair, which his preeminence as a research worker and original thinker in the field of the ancient history (or as it would now be termed the pre- and proto-history) and geography of the Mediterranean region had made almost inevitable, was otherwise appropriate in that he was both a Wykehamist and a member of New College.
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Prof. J. L. Myres, O.B.E., F.B.A. Nature 143, 464 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143464b0
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