12 OCTOBER 1929, Page 34

The late 'General Pitt-Rivers is widely known and - respected as the

pioneer of scientific archaeology in England.- He did much excellent work in Cranborne Chase, and he built a model museum to hold his collections, besides laying out pleasure grounds for the public. Many readers will be glad to know that Mr. George Pitt-Rivers has issued a handbook to The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham, under the editorship of Mr. L. N. Dudley Buxton, with contributions from the Rector of Exeter, Mr. St. George Gray and other authorities. The Farnham in question, it should be said, is on the Dorset-Wilts border, a few miles west of Salisbury. The museum is most interesting, and the Larmer Grounds hard by are exquisite, as the photographs in the handbook show.