Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Outline of the History of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1879-1904
In 1892 the Editors had to consider the publication of the results of very important excavations undertaken by the members of the British School at Athens on the site of Megalopolis. The amount of matter was sufficient to fill a volume of the Journal, but some of the Plates were of such a character that it was found necessary to adopt a larger size, and it was accordingly decided to suspend the publication of the Journal for a year, and to issue the report on Megalopolis to members as the first of aseries of Supple mentary Papers, and some notes on certain Byzantine Churches in Asia Minor by the Rev. A. C. Headlam were published in the same year as the second in the series. In order to preserve continuity, the volume of the Journal which appeared in 1893 was described as covering the two years 1892 - 3. In 1898, after the death of Professor J. H. Middleton his widow offered to the Society for publication some drawings and notes which he had made of Monuments on the Acropolis at Athens. It was decided to issue these as Supplementary Papers N 0. III. The volume was edited by Prof. Ernest Gardner, and the drawings were revised and brought up to date by Mr. T. D. Atkinson, who was then in Athens as architectural student of the British School. Mrs. Middleton contributed the sum of £40 to the cost of publication. On this occasion a volume of the Journal (vol. XX.) was issued to members in the same year, but it was equal in size and cost only to a single part.
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