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THE death is announced from America of Dr. Joseph Clark Hoppin, the well-known classical archaeologist. Dr. Hoppin was a graduate of Harvard University, and at one time was professor of classical archaeology in Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, but relinquished this post to devote himself to research. He was a student at the American School of Archaeology at Athens in 1892–3, and took part in the excavations carried on in the Argive Heraeum between the years 1892 and 1895. When the work of excavation came to an end, he took charge of the Department of Ceramics and was responsible for the examination and classification of the large quantity of pottery in the Museum at Athens which had been obtained from the Heraeum site. His “Handbook of Attic Red-Figured Vases,” a standard authority, appeared a few years ago, and his book on “Greek Black Figured Vases” appeared only at the end of last year. He had devoted himself for many years to the formation of a collection of classical antiquities, and it is said that his collection was perhaps the most complete of any in private hands in the United States. The value of his work had been recognised in Great Britain by election to honorary membership of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, an honour which he greatly appreciated. According to a sympathetic notice by one, of his former colleagues in Athens, which appeared in the Times of February 4, he had projected further excavations, at his own expense, shortly before his illness, in the Argive Heraeum.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 115, 389 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115389a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/115389a0