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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
A small group of note-books containing memoranda, itineraries, copies of inscriptions, and miscellaneous sketches by Sir William Gell was recently acquired by the British School at Athens, and it has seemed worth while to publish the following brief account of their contents, together with a rather fuller description of the two most important features which they present. These are (1) the copies which Gell made of numerous inscriptions, and (2) his own brief diary for the first part of his mission to Asia Minor on behalf of the Dilettanti Society in 1812—13.
page 67 note 1 Dr. Thomas Ashby obtained them in 1923, together with some concerning Italian sites, from a bookseller at Naples (Gaspare Casella, Cat. LXXIV, No. 154), and most kindly allowed the British School to acquire those that had any bearing on Greek lands.
page 67 note 2 For Gell's part in this expedition see the History of the Society of Dilettanti, pp. 154 ff. (and introduction to Pt. ii., to be published in B.S.A. xxviii.).
page 68 note 1 A few are definitely acknowledged, others have the initials ‘B. H.’ attached. For Baron Haller von Hallerstein see (inter alia) Cockerell, , Travels in S. Europe, etc. [1903], p. 44Google Scholar; for a comparison of his work with that of Lord Elgin's artist Lusieri, Williams, H. W., Travels in Italy, Greece, etc. (1820), vol. ii. pp. 331–4Google Scholar, cf. J.H.S. xxxvi (1916), p. 169 f.; for his work at Aegina, Furtwängler, , Aegina, I. pp. 12–16.Google Scholar
page 69 note 1 For a summary of Gell's sketch-books preserved in the British Museum (Department of Prints and Drawings) see Hasluck, , B.S.A. xviii. (1911–1912), p. 272 f.Google Scholar, and Binyon's Catalogue; the material which Gell brought home for the Dilettanti Society will be referred to in part ii. (B.S.A. xxviii.).
page 70 note 1 There is one reference to the site of Delphi in 1834, which shews that Gell was still in possession of this volume at that date.
page 71 note 1 Pub. 1825; see Rev. Arch. vi. (1905), p. 293.
page 71 note 2 Pub. 1825.
page 73 note 1 Some relationship must exist between these individuals and [Λ]άμαχος Κηφισοκλ[έους]Κικυννεύς I.G. ii2. 478 (cf. Kirchner, Prosop. Att., No. 8393). [A.M.W.]
