Abstract
ON April 29, the Earl of Athlone, Chancellor of the University of London, formally declared open the Institute of Archaeology, housed for the present in St. John's Lodge, Regent's Park, and unveiled wall-tablets to the memory of Mrs. Tessa Verney Wheeler, who was honorary secretary of the original Appeal Committee to collect funds for the foundation of the Institute, and of Mrs. Mary Woodgate Wharrie, a generous benefactor. The Chancellor was welcomed by Sir Charles Peers, chairman of the Committee of Management, and thanks were conveyed to him after the ceremony by the Right Hon. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore, who was First Commissioner of Works when St. John's Lodge, as Crown property, was allotted to the use of the Institute, and Dr. R. E. Mortimer Wheeler, director of the Institute. Arrangements have been made for the tenure of the present premises for a period of years; but it is hoped that eventually quarters for the Institute will be found among the University buildings in Bloomsbury near the Historical Institute and the Institute of Art.
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