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NATURE 



[February 24, 192 1 



peroxide was produced at the rate of 70-80 tons 

 per day at Angouleme, and of 25-30 tons at Bas- 

 sens. It was used with a hydrocarbon in the 

 manufacture of " anilithe " for aeroplane bombs. 



Switzerland, Italy, and Spain delivered 

 machinery and raw materials of various kinds ; 

 Chile furnished millions of tons of sodium nitrate ; 

 and Norway supplied more than 200,000 tons of 

 ammonium nitrate. England supplied benzene, 



naphthalene, and coal, and America sent raw 

 materials and finished explosives. 



The tremendous strides made during the war 

 may be appreciated from the following table» 

 giving the productions in tons per day : — 



War-time Arc haeology.^ 



"T^HE volume before us might truly be described 



•^ as a "war number," for it represents not 



only the published work of the British School at 



Athens for the first regular session after the armis- 



FiG. I.— Specimens of prehistoric pottery from Dikilitash. I. Dimeni ware ; 

 fine reddish biscuit, surface usually bright chestnut ; patterns, a mixture 

 of geometrical and curvilinear figures in dull brown paint. II. Black or 

 red biscuit ; patterns, geometrical designs, parallel lines in sets of 

 threes, and rows of concentric circles, in dull white paint. HI. Coarse 

 black or red biscuit ; patterns, similar to those of I. and II. filled in 

 with cross-hatching or painted ; specimen on right is painted and incised. 

 From '''Ihe Annual of the British School at Athens." 



tice, but also mainly the results of observa- 

 tions made while on duty by actual and former 

 students. The seven students of the British School 



' "The Annual of the British School at Athens." No. xxiii. Session 

 1918-19. Pp. xvi+360+xvi pis. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., n.d.) 

 Price 30J. net. 



of Archaeology who lost their lives during the war, 

 and the school's distinguished and learned 

 librarian, F. W. Hasluck, who died early in 1920 

 of a malady caused or aggravated by war service 

 in Greece, are appropriately commemorated, and a 

 brief summary shows the war work which fell to 

 other students. It is a striking and varied record. 

 If the school had done nothing beyond training 

 for eventual public service in Greece and the Near 

 East so large a body of men accustomed to 

 observe accurately, handle native labourers tact- 

 fully and economically, and act with expert know- 

 ledge and executive efficiency, it would have earned 

 many times over the miserable allowance which 



Fig. 2. — Wall of ruined fort ;i'-ai R.;tQ iva^:e;li, ia ancient Doris. 

 Krom " The Annual of the British School at Athens." 



it receives annually from the Treasury. Special 

 mention is made in the annual report and in a 

 letter of thanks from the Secretary of State for 

 Foreign Affairs of the services of the director, 

 Mr. A. J. B. Wace, who was attached to the 

 British Legation at .4thens during the war while 

 carrying on the school as a hostel for British, 

 officers in transit or on duty in Greece. 



The greater part of the volume is devoted to 

 the pubhcation, by Prof. E. A. Gardner, Messrs. 

 Carson, Welch, Woodward, and others, of sites, 

 inscriptions, and other antiquities discovered 

 during' the British occupation of Salonica. This 

 district was previously very ill-explored, but 

 numerous finds were made in trenching operations 

 and military surveys. The contents of the museum 

 formed at British G.H.Q. have now been pre- 

 sented by the Greek Government to the British 



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