Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-28
OLD ISLE IS DOOMED
Ancient PhiIae Soon to Pass,
Says Prof. Muller.
INUNDATED BY THE NILE
Educator Speaks Before Archeolo-
gists and Philologists.
MANY OTHER PAPERS READ
British Ambassador, Mr.. Bryce,
Who Will Receive Canadians This
Afternoon, a Listener.
MANY OTHER PAPERS READ

Papers, decidedly technical in nature
dealing with ancient lore and mythol-
ogy, archaeological, pathological and
Pathological discoveries of recent date
were read today before the various
sessions of the joint convention of the
American Pathological Association. the
Archaeological Institute of America
and the Society of Biblical Literature
and Exegesis at the New National
Museum.
One of the most popular of the papers
was that read by Prof. w. Max Muller
of the University Of Pennsylvania be-
fore the oriental section, who told of
the doomed island of Philae in the Nile
river in Egypt.
The speaker. with the use of many
stereopticOn slides, showed how Philae
with its magnificent temple ruins is en-
tirely under water during the spring and
ing up of the Nile, due to the great AS
suan dam. Within a generation, he said
all Of the walls of the old temple which
for centuries have withstood the ravages
of time, will crumble away, by the action
of the water during the months of inun-
dalton.
1T is another example of how beauty
must be sacrificed to commercialism The
fate of Philae is similar to that OF
Niagara, where the beauty Of the falls
has been sacrificed for commercial pur-
poses.
Valuable Source of Study.
in the eyes of the Psychologists the
ruins of the temples on Philae present
one Of the most valuable sources OF
study. and yet it will be a matter of but
a few years before they are entirely
gone. At certain months of the year the
island stands high above the water Level
and the temples may be studied. During
the winter one may study the roofs of
the ruins and the very tops Of the col
umns with the use of rowIboat'
The various sections Of the convention
were called to order at $50 o'clock this
morning in the lecture rooms of the mu-
scum. Charles c. Torrey presided over
the oriental section William Peterson the
classical. Allan Marquand the medieval
and renaissance, and William H. Holmes
the prehistoric and American.
The morning session was not concluded
until some time after noon, when the dele
gates went to luncheon. At 2:30 O'Clock
this afternoon the various sections were
tener at several of the lectures this morn
ing was the British ambassador, Mr..
Bryce.
Program of Morning.
The morning program was as follows:
Section A. oriental-"The Doomed Island
of Philae," w. Max Muller. University of
Pennsylvania; "A New Hebrew Seal and
a Samaritan inscription >John F. Nc
Curdy, University of Toronto; Some
Archaeological Observations in Turks
TAM" A. V. Williams Jackson, Columbia
University: "Old Testament Parallels to
Fab lIon nafi yfn lion nO6
Fox, Princeton University: The Geneal-
ogy of Jesus" Henry A. Sanders, Univer-
sity of Michigan: 3The Inscription of
Enkhegal. King Of Iagash." George A.
Relief Of King Darius Herbert Gushing
Tolman, Vanderbilt University; Baby
lonian, Etruscan and Chinese Divina-
tion." Morris Jastrow, jr.. University Of
Pennsylvania: "A New Typewriter for
Lahnda. Sindhi Afghan. Malay. Swan.n,
etc." Paul Haupt. Johns Hopkins Uni
versity. Section B. classical-.'C. w. Lun-
singh Schleurleer's Collection of Antique
ties in The Hague" Paul Baur. Yale
Flower Smith, Johns Hopkins University
Recently Discovered Inscriptions from
sardes." David NJ Robinson. Johns Hop
ns snd se %a ssne1
Hale. University of Chicago; "Excava-
lions at Halae,' Miss Hetty Goldman,
American School at Athens; "Are the
Political Speeches of Demosthenes to Be
Regarded as Political Pamphlets?''
Charles Darwin Adams. Dartmouth Col
lege; Management and Expense Of Pub
lie Works in Roman and Byzantine
Syria" William X. Prentice, Princeton
University: THE Religious Inscriptions
Of the City of Rome" Gordon ]. Laing,
University of Chicago.
Section C. Medieval and Renaissance.
The Crypto-pendentive in Byzantine
Architecture" James Carter. Lincoln
University, Pennsylvania: "Quattrocento
Perugia as Revealed in the Back
grounds of Benedetto Bonfgli's Paint
ings," George Harold Edgell. Fogg Mu-
scum of Art, Cambridge; THE Master
pieces in the Prado Gallery" Charles
Upson Clark. Yale University: "Giotto's