Fellows, Charles: Travels and researches in Asia Minor, more particularly in the province of Lycia (London, 1852)

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THE XANTHIAK MARBLES.

tering resolution of the Trustees of the British Museum,
passed May 14th, soon after my arrival in England.

"May 14th, 1842.
" Sis Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Chair.

[After ordering the repayment of the sums which I ad-
vanced] It was resolved:—

" That the Trustees desire to express their sense of Mr.
Fellows's public spirit in voluntarily undertaking to lend to
so distant an expedition the assistance of his local knowledge
and personal co-operation ; and that they have viewed with
great satisfaction the decision and energy evinced by Mr.
Fellows in proceeding from Smyrna to Constantinople and
obtaining the necessary authority for the removal of the
marbles, as well as his judicious directions at Xanthus, by
which the most desirable of the valuable monuments of
antiquity, formerly brought to light by him, together with
several others of scarcely less interest now for the first time
discovered and excavated, have been placed in safety, and,
as the Trustees have every reason to hope, secured for the
National Museum.

ONK

(Signed)

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J. Eorshall, Secretary.9'