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THE death on Tuesday of Prof. H. F. Peiham, president of Trinity College, Oxford, and Camden professor of ancient history in the University, at sixty-one years of age, means a great loss to national scholarship and active study. Prof. Pethem took a keen interest in scientific progress, and wh1 a member of the Hebdomadal Council at Oxford he was always on the side of learning and research. Women's education in Oxford had in him a powerful champion, and Somerville College in particular owed a great debt to him for his enthusiastic service on its council. He did much for the promotion and management of the British School at Athens and the British School at Rome, his zeal on behalf of these institutions being based on the conviction of the value of Greek and Roman life and literature as a subject of scientific study. Prof. Peiham was one of the first members of the British Academy.