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The publication of A See also:Journal written during an Excursion in Asia Minor (London, 1839) roused such See also:interest that Lord See also:Palmerston, at the See also:request of the British Museum authorities, asked the British See also:consul at See also:Constantinople to get leave from the See also:sultan to See also:ship a number of the Lycian See also:works of See also:art
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See also:Late in 1839 See also:Fellows, under the auspices of the British Museum, again set out for Lycia, accompanied by See also:George See also:Scharf, who assisted him in sketching
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This second visit resulted in the See also:discovery of thirteen ancient cities, and in 1841 appeared An See also:Account of Discoveries in Lycia, being a Journal kept during a Second Excursion in Asia Minor
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A third visit was made late in 1841, after Fellows had obtained a f rran by See also:personal application at Constantinople
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He shippeda number of works of art for See also:England, and in the See also:fourth and most famous expedition (1844) twenty-seven cases of See also:marbles were despatched to the British Museum
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His See also:chief discoveries were at Xanthus, Pinara, Patara, Tlos, See also:Myra and See also:Olympus
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In 1844 he presented to the British Museum his portfolios, accounts of his expeditions, and specimens of natural See also:history illustrative of Lycia
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In 1845 he was knighted " as an See also:acknowledgment of his services in the removal of the Xanthian antiquities to this See also:country." He paid his own expenses in all his journeys and received no public See also:reward
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Fellows was twice married
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He
died in London on the 8th of See also:November 186o
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In addition to the works above mentioned, Fellows published the following: The Xanthian Marbles; their Acquisition and Trans-See also:mission to England (1843), a refutation of false statements that had been published ; An Account of the Ionic See also:Trophy See also:Monument excavated at Xanthus (1848); a cheap edition of his two See also:Journals, entitled Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, particularly in the See also:Province of Lycia (1852); and Coins of Ancient Lycia before the Reign of See also:
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