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214 History of the Society of Dilettanti
at relatively small expense by one or other of the
various modern means of mechanical reproduction.
At the same time greater and more varied resources
are forthcoming than ever before for the work of
excavation and discovery. The German Government
with its great undertaking at Olympia, the French
with theirs at Delos and at Delphi, the Archaeo-
logical Society of Athens with its fruitful industry
in the city and neighbourhood, the American school,
and lastly our own school, which is the youngest
of all, and whose resources have most need of rein-
forcement, have all been diligently at work on Greek
soil j the foreign institutions disinterestedly so far as
concerns the acquisition of the objects found, since
export is forbidden by the new laws both of Greece
and Turkey, but with none the less gain to know-
ledge.
Part taken, Under these circumstances and amidst these
ortobe altered conditions, it is hardly to be supposed that
taken, by the , _ ,-. _.<, . J • , . ■*■x
Dilettanti. tne Society or Dilettanti can maintain or assume
again its old lead along its old lines. Our narrative
has shown, indeed, that the progress of all these
changes has by no means found it idle or left it in
the cold. When the Archaeological Institute was
founded on cosmopolitan principles at Rome, the
secretary of its English section was W. R. Hamilton,
the Secretary also of the Dilettanti Society. When,
nearly half a century later, a British school was at last
established at Athens, the initiative was largely
due to a famous scholar who is also a member of
the Dilettanti, Professor Jebb; moreover, the first
director for the school was found in the person of
the father of the Dilettanti, Mr. Penrose. The good
work done by the Society for so many years was
amply acknowledged by one of the leaders of
at relatively small expense by one or other of the
various modern means of mechanical reproduction.
At the same time greater and more varied resources
are forthcoming than ever before for the work of
excavation and discovery. The German Government
with its great undertaking at Olympia, the French
with theirs at Delos and at Delphi, the Archaeo-
logical Society of Athens with its fruitful industry
in the city and neighbourhood, the American school,
and lastly our own school, which is the youngest
of all, and whose resources have most need of rein-
forcement, have all been diligently at work on Greek
soil j the foreign institutions disinterestedly so far as
concerns the acquisition of the objects found, since
export is forbidden by the new laws both of Greece
and Turkey, but with none the less gain to know-
ledge.
Part taken, Under these circumstances and amidst these
ortobe altered conditions, it is hardly to be supposed that
taken, by the , _ ,-. _.<, . J • , . ■*■x
Dilettanti. tne Society or Dilettanti can maintain or assume
again its old lead along its old lines. Our narrative
has shown, indeed, that the progress of all these
changes has by no means found it idle or left it in
the cold. When the Archaeological Institute was
founded on cosmopolitan principles at Rome, the
secretary of its English section was W. R. Hamilton,
the Secretary also of the Dilettanti Society. When,
nearly half a century later, a British school was at last
established at Athens, the initiative was largely
due to a famous scholar who is also a member of
the Dilettanti, Professor Jebb; moreover, the first
director for the school was found in the person of
the father of the Dilettanti, Mr. Penrose. The good
work done by the Society for so many years was
amply acknowledged by one of the leaders of