Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-04
FOURTH DAY OPENS
SCIENTISTS CONSIDER ROUTINE
BUSINESS PRINCIPALLY.

The fourth day of the annual meeting OF
the American Pathological Association the
Archaeological Institute of America and or
the council of the institute was given up to
the consideration of general routine bust
ness. The most important action taken
during the day was when the council In
executive session decided to carry out the
work OF American archaeology by the APP
pointment of director of American arch
aeology, who should have direction of the
local work of the affiliated societies, so
that the entire program might be co-ord1-
mated in one comprehensive plan, which
should include all culture areas of the
American continent. The council also con-
sdered the establishment of a school OF
American archaeology at Sante Fee N M,
for which purpose provisional tender OF
accommodations in Santa Fe has been
made. This action may be considered as
marking an epoch in the development of
the work of American archaeology.
The report of the executive committee
was read. after which the report or the
school at Athens was presented by the
chairman of the managing committee, Prof.
b. l. Wheeler. The report of the school
of Rome was then offered by Prof. Andrew
F. West of Princeton; of the school or
Palestine, Prof. Charles c. Torrey OF yale;
of the committee on American archaeology,
by the chairman, Charles T. Bowditch; OF
the committee medieval studies, Prof.
Allan Marquand of Princeton. and the re-
port of the managing editor of the journal
of the institute, Prof j. NJ. Patton.
Titles of Papers
The papers read at the morning sessions
were as follows:
DR.. George Depue Hadzsits, University of
Pennsylvania, "Aphrodite and the Dione
Myth" Prof Francis w. Keysey, Univer-
sity of Michigan, 'Pompeian Illustration to
Lucretius:' DR.. James NJ. Patton, Cam.
bridge, Mass. Two Representations of
the Birth of Dionysus;'' Prof. G. Fred
erick Wright Oberlin College, "Archaeolog-
zeal Treasures of the Crimea;" DR.. Ed
mund Won Mach, Cambridge. Mass, The
Relative Importance of Casts and Originals
for the Study of Ancient Sculpture" Prof
]. e. Harry. University of Cincinnati, The
Perfect Forms in Later Greek from Aris-
totle to Nonnus;' Prof. Herbert C. Toll
man. Vanderbilt University, "A Con-
jectural Persian Original for Aristophanes,
Acharnians;' Prof. Andrew R. Anderson,
PRINCETON, n j., "Ei-readings in the Mss
Emory and Henry College, The Possessive
in the Predicate in Greek"
At the conclusion of the meeting of the
council an adjournment was taken until
$50 O'clock at which time the members
convened and went in body to pay their
respects to the President. This afternoon
they will visit the Smithsonian Institution
and the National Museum.
Session Yesterday Afternoon.
At yesterday afternoons meeting the fol-
lowing subjects were discussed:
Prof. William n. Bates. University of
Pennsylvania. New Inscriptions from the
Asclepeum at Athens Prof Minton War
rem, Harvard University, ION the STEELE In
scription in the Forum" Prof. Francis w.
Kelsey, University of Michigan, "Codrus'
Chron and a Painting from Herculaneum;"
Vn1a Tri1 if1r
Traces of Portraiture In Old Semitic Art
Prof. George III. Chase. Harvard University,
. Three Archaic Bronze Tripods in the Pos
session of James Loeb. esq.," Mr.. Edgar l..
Hewett. fellow of the Institute in American
Archaeology. The Foci of Ancient Culture
of the Mexican Tableland."
AT o'clock last evening the committee on
medieval and renaissance archaeology was
met at the Shoreham. Later they were en-
tertained, together with the other members,
at smoker at the University Club.