Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . lendidseries of works on Greek and Roman Antiquities, includingStuart and Revetts Antiquities of Athens (](i),Richard Chandlers Travels (1775-6) and InscriptionesAntique (1774), Sir AVilliam Gells Rome and its Vicinity(1846), Penrcses Principles of Athenian Architecture (1851,1889), and Cockerells Temples of .Egina and Bas,s;e (1860).The same Society has also promoted excavations conducted byRichard
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . lendidseries of works on Greek and Roman Antiquities, includingStuart and Revetts Antiquities of Athens (](i),Richard Chandlers Travels (1775-6) and InscriptionesAntique (1774), Sir AVilliam Gells Rome and its Vicinity(1846), Penrcses Principles of Athenian Architecture (1851,1889), and Cockerells Temples of .Egina and Bas,s;e (1860).The same Society has also promoted excavations conducted byRichard Popplewell Pullaii at Ttos and Prione and also in theTroad (18G2-70). Edmund Travels in Turkey(1698-1702) were not published until 1747. Robert Wood,a member of the ]_)ilcttantti Society, travelled in Greece andPalestine in 1751 and published his works on Palmjra andRaalbec in 1753 and 1757 respectively. The ruins of Pa^stumwere visited and described by JFajor in 1708 and Swinburne in1779. The sculptures of the Parthenon, removed to England byilie of Elgin in 1801-3, were purchased by the Governmentfor i;35,()()0 and placed in the liritish Jruscuin in 1N16 (p 400).. 668 THE SUCCESSION OF THE DEMOCRACY. Dodwell,1767-1832, Leake,1777-1860. Fellows,1799-1860. Layard, GreekTestament. The accomplished tr;iveller, Edward 1 )od\vell, spent the greaterpart of his hfe in Greece and Italy ; liis ? Tour m Greece (witha vokinio of Views) appeared in 1X19, his CyclopeanRemains in ISo-i. The foremost of Greek topographers wasWilHani ]\[artin Leake, the author of Researches in Greece (1812), The Topography of Athens (1821), Travels inNorthern Greece (1835), The Morea (1830), Peloponnesiaca(1846), and Numismata Hellenica. His library and liiscollection of coins now belong to the University of Charles Fellows became famous as the explorer of Lycia andthe discoverer of the Xanthian marbles (1840), and his examplewas followed, with no small
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