Note 15 — INTRODUCTION.
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Charles Townley gave two marble fountains15 in 1786, but his main collections were not added to the Museum till after his death. A valuable gift was received from the Society of Dilettanti, about 1795, consisting of the sculptures and inscriptions collected by the expedition to Ionia which had been sent out by that Society in 1764, under the direction of Dr. Richard Chandler. The collection included several Attic reliefs,16 and some important inscriptions, among them the well-known report on the progress of the Erechtheion.17 In 1870 the same Society presented the fruits of its excavations at Prienè, conducted by Mr. R. P. Pullan.