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'Non-Stonehenge clippings'

Reference code
GOW/03/12
Title
'Non-Stonehenge clippings'
Date
1900-1922
Level of description
file
Extent and format
1 folder
Scope and content
1. Clipped together:
- Cutting from an unidentified newspaper, undated - account of the first of three lectures given by Flinders Petrie on 'Saturday afternoon' at the Royal Institution, on The Rise of Civilization in Egypt'.
- Cutting, probably from The Times, 2 July 1900 - account of the Egyptological Exhibition at University College [London].
- Cutting, probably from The Times, 8 November 1900 - account of a meeting of the Egypt Exploration Fund, with addresses by Sir John Evans and Petrie.

2. Cutting from The Times, 29 January 1901 - a letter from W St Chad Boscawen on a 'remarkable Babylonian inscription from Susa'.

(3) Clipped together:
- Cutting from The Times, 13 September 1902 - account of the meeting of 'Section H Anthropology', concerning 'Totemism'; Gowland has marked a paper given by George Clinch concerning subterranean chambers discovered at Waddon, near Croydon.
- Cutting from The Times, 15 September 1902 - account of the meeting of 'Section H Anthropology', including a paper by William Cunnington on a palaeolithic flint implement found at Knowle, Wiltshire.
These two cuttings relate to the 72nd meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Belfast, September 1902.

4. Cutting from an unidentified newspaper, undated, account of a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, at which Flinders Petrie gave the seventh annual Huxley lecture, on 'Migrations' [1906].

5. Cuttings from the Glasgow Herald, January 1920, mounted on paper - correspondence between Ludovic McLellan Mann and Donald Mackenzie, concerning the origins of beads found near Stonehenge.
This assemblage appears to have been sent to Gowland by Mann.

6. Cutting from The Times, 26 July 1921, p 11 - relating to recent discoveries at Pompeii.

7. Cutting from an unidentified newspaper, undated, concerning presentation to the British Museum by Sir [Henry] Rider Haggard of 'a massive Peruvian finger ring'.
This appears to be BM Am1922,0111.1, presented in 1922.