DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.5179#0008
PEEFACE. Vll
on the voluntary system, I may be permitted to
state my convictions of the superior advantages
derivable from an organized and well-appointed
expedition. It is true that this country has
sent out expeditions in furtherance of the Fine
Arts; but these expeditions have been generally
dispatched after researches and discoveries have
been made by private individuals. We have sent
out expeditions to secure marbles—as at Nineveh,
" after the discoveries of Mr. Layard; at Xanthus,
after the discoveries of Sir Charles Fellows; at
Hahcarnassus, after the assurance by Mr. Newton of
the existence of sculptured rnai-bles ; and lately at
Cyrene, after the discoveries of Lieutenants Smith
and Porcher. The results of some of these expe-
ditions have been published in a magnificent form
by private enterprise, and with most satisfactory
results. Still, it must strike many persons, that
if well-appointed expeditions to some of these
places had been sent out in the first instance,
expeditions consisting of an archaeologist, an
architect, and a draughtsman, more important
or more complete results might have been
on the voluntary system, I may be permitted to
state my convictions of the superior advantages
derivable from an organized and well-appointed
expedition. It is true that this country has
sent out expeditions in furtherance of the Fine
Arts; but these expeditions have been generally
dispatched after researches and discoveries have
been made by private individuals. We have sent
out expeditions to secure marbles—as at Nineveh,
" after the discoveries of Mr. Layard; at Xanthus,
after the discoveries of Sir Charles Fellows; at
Hahcarnassus, after the assurance by Mr. Newton of
the existence of sculptured rnai-bles ; and lately at
Cyrene, after the discoveries of Lieutenants Smith
and Porcher. The results of some of these expe-
ditions have been published in a magnificent form
by private enterprise, and with most satisfactory
results. Still, it must strike many persons, that
if well-appointed expeditions to some of these
places had been sent out in the first instance,
expeditions consisting of an archaeologist, an
architect, and a draughtsman, more important
or more complete results might have been