 Soon after joining the museum , Wheeler was elected to the council of the Society of Antiquaries . Through the Society , he became involved in the debate as to who should finance archaeological supervision of building projects in Greater London ; his argument was that the City of London Corporation should provide the funding , although in 1926 it was agreed that the Society itself would employ a director of excavation based in Lancaster House to take on the position . Also involved in the largely <unk> Royal Archaeological Institute , Wheeler organised its relocation to Lancaster House . In 1927 , Wheeler took on an unpaid <unk> at University College London , where he established a graduate <unk> course on archaeology ; one of the first to enroll was Stuart Piggott . In 1928 , Wheeler <unk> an exhibit at UCL on " Recent Work in British Archaeology " , for which he attracted much press attention . 
