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Sir Frederick Kenyon Retires Sir Frederick Kenyon, who has been

Director of the British Museum for twenty-one years, and has served it for forty, retired on Wednesday. It is largely owing to his organization of public lectures and publications that the British people to-day understand much more than they did about the proper use of museums. He has greatly extended the Museum's range of influence, without once detracting from its dignity. In his retirement " he is taking up the secretaryship of the British Academy. His is a remarkable record. He has combined scholarship with high administrative capacity and—not least—with sympathy for a holiday making herd let loose in the galleries.

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