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'''William Sandys Wright Vaux'''
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ESL 6 mar 1861 - Three models of ‘flint implements’ were presented by Mr Vaux<br />F & Hon. Sec. RSL, Pres. Numismatic Society of London<br />1871.02.14 Mr W.S.W. Vaux MA FRS was unanimously elected an Honorary Member of the Institute.<br />1885.10.27 death noted
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
William Sandys Wright Vaux FRS (28 February 1818 – 21 June 1885), was a celebrated British antiquary of the 19th century.<br />From November 1875 to his death he was the secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, and for many years secretary to the Royal Society of Literature<br />Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1870
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Nineveh and Persepolis: an Historical Sketch of Ancient Assyria and Persia, with an Account of the recent Researches in those Countries (1850; 4th ed. 1855)<br /><br />Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum: a Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian, and Etruscan Art, 1851.<br /><br />Ancient History from the Monuments; Persia from the earliest Period to the Arab Conquest, 1875: new edition by Prof. A. H. Sayce, 1893.<br /><br />Ancient History from the Monuments: Greek Cities and Islands of Asia Minor, 1877.<br /><br />In 1854 he edited for the Hakluyt Society The World encompassed by Sir F. Drake.
=== House Publications ===
on the Indian tribes NW of the Boundary Line as seen by Capt. Palliser’s Expedition – by James Hector MD and W.S.W. Vaux MA Read 16 apr 1861