Petrie, Flinders, Egyptologist, son of an Australian explorer; after explorations at Stonehenge, surveyed the pyramids and temples of Ghizeh in 1881-82; excavated for the Egyptian Exploration Fund Nankratis, Am, and Defenneh; has achieved many other important works of the kind, and issued a popular work, “Ten Years' Diggings in Egypt”; (b. 1853).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Petri, Laurentius * Petrie, George