Abstract
WE understand that Col. Murdoch Smith has been appointed by the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education to the Directorship of this Museum, in succession to the late Prof. Archer. As Lieut. Smith he was associated with Prof. Newton in the discoveries at Heli-carnassus, and, subsequently, with Commander Pacher, R.N., undertook the explorations in the Cyrenaica which resulted in the acquisition by the nation of the valuable collection of sculptures now in the British Museum. Latterly, Col. Smith, while employed at Teheran, has acquired for the South Kensington Museum the large and valuable collection of Persian art and manufactures which is so well known there. We believe Col. Smith obtained his first Commission in the Royal Engineers direct from a Scottish University, and is one of the very few officers in that Corps who did not pass through the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich or Addiscombe.
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