We greatly regret to record the death of Dr. D.
G. Hogarth, the famous archaeologist. To describe him as an archaeologist is to give him the title which he would perhaps have preferred, but he was also geographer, explorer and historian. No country but England produces men quite like Hogarth ; he was intensely conscious and proud of being an Englishman, but he could study the minds of the strangest peoples with the sympathy of understanding. He was a " good mixer." To him the perils of exploration were a not undesirable incident, and he could take a humorous view of every mishap, though he never let his attention wander from the main objective, which was the enrichment of scholarship by discovery. His athletic habit made him capable of several feats of endurance. His travels in Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, Crete and Arabia are too numerous to mention. He became an ideal successor to Sir Arthur Evans as Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. In the War his creation of the Arab Bureau in Cairo was masterly. He had a quick eye for such peculiar talents as those of Colonel T. E. Lawrence and Miss Gertrude Bell, and placed them unerringly where they were wanted.
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