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BOTH in the range of his learning and accomplishments, and in his positive contributions to knowledge, Sir Arthur Evans was an outstanding figure among nearly three generations of archæologists. He owed much to intimacy with his distinguished father, Sir John Evans, whom in some respects he closely resembled; much to the historian Edward Freeman, who encouraged him at Oxford; much to a year's study at Gottingen, to which he would refer with affection and gratitude.
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MYRES, J. [Obituaries]. Nature 148, 107–108 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148107a0
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