It was under his directorship that the museum acquired the Salting collection, the Rodin sculptures (now transferred to the Tate Gallery), the Talbot Hughes collection of costumes, the Alma Tadema library, the Le Blon Korean pottery and the Pierpoint Morgan stained glass.
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As well as contributing to many of the British Museum departmental catalogues, he wrote for the art journals and also published a number of monographs: 'The Collection of J Pierpont Morgan' (1913), 'The Art Treasures of the Nation' (1929), and 'The Society of the Dilettanti: it's Regalia and Pictures' (1932).
Cecil Harcourt Smith (1859–1944), British archaeologist and museum director
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