A tribute to the Rockefellers’ two greatest interests in life, measures for combating disease and the advancement of education, was paid today by Sir John Chancellor, High Commissioner of Palestine, in an address at the laying of the cornerstone of the Palestine Archeological Museum. John D. Rockefeller gave the funds for the Museum’s building.
Sir John said that the Museum would house the antiquities of all the peoples who inhabited Palestine from the earliest times. The High Commissioner recalled that Palestine was the third country in which he had governed that was indebted to Mr. Rockefeller’s beneficent activities. He declared that the Museum would be a “veritable treasury of antiquities of a country whose history has been the subject of the passionate interest of all races in the world.”
Speaking on behalf of the Palestine department of antiquities, J. Richmond said that the Museum will add beauty to the ancient city. The building will house antiquities from pre-historic days to 1700. It will also contain a library, a lecture theatre and will serve as the headquarters for the government department of antiquities.
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