Abstract
PERMISSION has beeh granted by H.M. the King to Sir John. Forsdyke to resign his appointment as director and principal librarian of the British Muesum as from March 31, 1950. He entered the Departmet of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the 1907, and was appointed keeper in 1932, ved in the Royal Artillery in the First Woild War. Ho took an active part in the preparation of the first volume of the Catalogue of "Greek and Etrurean Vases", and in 1909 published a paper in the Journal of Hellenic Studies which went far to determine the significance of the 'Minyan' fabric of pottery from prehistoric sites in central Greece. Under the leadership of Sir Arthur Evans, he excavated Minoan tombs near Knossos ; and he gave to the British Academy a valuable lecture on Minoan art.
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