PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND, TIIE. A society founded in London, June 22, 1865, for the accurate and systematic investiga tion of the archaeology, topography, geology and physical geography, natural history, manners, and customs of the Holy Land for biblical illus tration. Under its auspices the following expedi tions, travels, and excavations have been made: December, 1365-May, 1S66, under Captain Wil son, to fix spots for investigation and to collect information ; May, 1867-April, 1S70, under Lieu tenant Warren, to settle questions connected with the Holy Sites; 1S70, under Professor Palmer and C. F. Tyrwhitt Drake, to examine the desert of the Till; 1872-77, under Captain Stewart Drake, Lieutenant Conder, and Lieutenant Kitch ener, to survey Western Palestine; 1S73-74. under Clermont-Ganneau, for arelneological research ; 1381, under Lieutenant Conder, for the partial survey of Eastern Palestine; 1883-34, under Prof. E. Hull and Lieutenant Kitchener, for the geological survey of the Dead Sea region and the Wady Arabah; 1390-93, under Flinders Petrie and Frederick J. Bliss, for the excavation of the buried cities in the mound Tell el-Hesy; 1894 97, under Bliss and Dickie, for excavations at the south and the southwestern portion of Jerusalem; 1898-1900, under Bliss, for excavations at Tell es-Safi (Gat])?), Tell Zakariyah, Tell Sandahan nail, and Tell el-Judaidah; 1902, under R. A.
Stewart Macalister, for the excavation of Gezer. Since 1369 the society has issued a Quarterly Statement. The more important publications of the society are: Surrey of Western. Palestine; Memoirs (7 vols., 1381-34) : Surrey of Eastern. Palestine, by Conder (1900) ; Erearations at Jerusalem, by Bliss and Dickie (1894-97) ; The Fauna and Flora of Palestine, by Tristram ( 18S4); The Geology of Palestine and Arabia Petrwa, by E. Hull (1886) ; Arehmological Re searches, by Clermont-Ganneau (1896, et seq.) ; the great map of Western Palestine: the raised map; the map of Modern Palestine (in 20 sheets). The society has also a Palestinian Museum at its office, 33 Conduit Street, London. Consult: Thirty Years' Work in the Holy Land (London, 1895), an official resiiiii(' of the work of the Fund prepared by Walter Besant: Conder, "Palestine," in Tire World's Great Explorers and Explorations (ib., 1899).