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IN October next the British School of Archaeology at Athens will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation. As part of the celebration an exhibition will be held at the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, London, to illustrate the discoveries in Greece and Crete, which have resulted from the work of the School. A special section of the exhibition will be devoted to the Minoan civilizations of Greece and the excavations at Knossos, which were conducted by Sir Arthur Evans, honorary student of the School, and in which the architects of the School took part. This section of the exhibition is being prepared by Sir Arthur Evans himself, with the facilities given him by the authorities of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, to which the antiquities brought from Knossos by Sir Arthur were entrusted. It is under stood that the exhibition will be inaugurated by H.R.H. the Duke of Kent on October 13, at 3 p.m., and will be open to the public from October 14 until November 14. The occasion of the jubilee of the School will also be marked by a special fund which it is proposed to raise to enable the School to increase its staff, improve its library and accommodation, and provide for the needs of the graduates who are sent to Greece in increasing numbers for advanced study by the universities.
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British School of Archæology at Athens. Nature 138, 323 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138323d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138323d0