Sir Flinders Petrie's life-long services to Egyptology in the widest
sense are admirably summarized in hls article on " Fifty Years' Experience of Digging," which appears in the current number of Ancient Egypt (Macmillan, 2s.). So much is now known about Egypt, dynastic and pre-dynastic, that the average reader will be astonished to learn how little was known in 1880 when Sir Flinders went "to measure the Pyramids." For example, "no link between Egypt and Europe was regarded before Alexander " : the part that Egypt played in the Mediterranean and Western Asia through many centuries was unknown. Sir Flinders Petrie outlines the results of each of his many excavations and notes the years in which his many pupils or colleagues began—as, for instance, Professor Ernest Gardner at Naukratis in 1885. Mr. Howard Carter at Tell el Arnarna in 1802. We may fairly be proud of this great English scholar.
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