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AT long last the University of Cambridge has a chair of Egyptology, and Prof. S. R. K. Glanville‘s inaugural address has been published (London : Camb. Univ. Press. Pp. 37. Is. 6d. net). The subject has for some time been taught officially in London, Oxford, Liverpool and Manchester ; but although so late in the creation of a chair, Prof. Glanville directs attention to three eminent Cambridge men—C. W. Goodwin, E. A. Wallis Budge and Sir Herbert Thompson—who played a big part in the building up of the subject. Actually, it is owing to the generosity of the last of this trio that the creation of the present chair has been made possible. Prof. Glanville continues with a brief survey of the subject under the three headings : monuments, antiquities and writings. He concludes with a strong plea that Egyptology, although not of immediate use like engineering and medicine, yet has its place in the teaching of a great university ; he ends with a quotation from Housman : "The pursuit of knowledge, like the pursuit of righteousness, is part of man‘s duty to himself".
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Growth and Nature of Egyptology. Nature 161, 346 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161346c0
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