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MR. A. J. H. EDWARDS has been appointed director of the Scottish National Museum of Antiquities in succession to Dr. J. G. Callendar, who died on March 19. Mr. Edwards is the son of the late Capt. John Edwards of Dundee, one of the last of the well-known arctic whalers. He was educated at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, and joined the staff of the Natural History Department of the Royal Scottish Museum in 1906. In 1912 he was appointed assistant keeper of the National Museum of Antiquities, and in 1913 went to Germany to study the preservation of antiquities with Prof. Rathgon, principal chemist to the German Government Museums. During the Great War he served in Malta, Salonika, Egypt and Palestine in the ranks and as an officer on the General List. He returned to the Museum of Antiquities in 1919 and also continued studies abroad. Mr. Edwards has visited the large museums in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and France and has contributed from time to time articles on archaeological subjects which have been published in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and other journals.
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Mr. A. J. H. Edwards. Nature 141, 930 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141930a0
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