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With several of the smaller universities, museums of 

 original materials and reproductions are connected. In 

 these museums, many objects of archaeological interest, 

 dating from the Old Kingdom in Egypt to modern 

 times, are to be found. Special mention may be made 

 of the collections at Bordeaux (Greek and Graeco- 

 Roman sculpture and vases and monuments of early 

 Iberic art); Lille (casts, photographs, and some original 

 monuments); Lyon (large collection of casts and photo- 

 graphs from Egyptian, Greek, and Graeco-Roman 

 monuments); Montpellier (casts from ancient sculpture, 

 photographs, and prints); and Nancy (casts and some 

 original monuments). Interesting collections of local an- 

 tiquities, often rich in Roman and Gallic sculpture, are at 

 Nimes, Aries, Aix, Langres, Autun, Vienne, and Narbonne. 



Libraries. Among the libraries of Paris, the great 

 Bibliotheque Nationale, with its 3,000,000 volumes, is 

 especially rich in works on archaeology; and its 110,000 

 manuscripts and some 1,000,000 prints offer many 

 opportunities for research work along documentary lines. 

 There are, besides, several special libraries, where books 

 not in the Bibliotheque Nationale can often be found. 

 Among these the most important are the Bibliotheque 

 d'Art et d'Archeologie (some 100,000 volumes); the 

 Bibliotheque du Musee de Sculpture comparee (about 

 2,000 volumes and over 60,000 drawings, prints, and 

 photographs); the Bibliotheque de 1 'Association pour 

 1 'Encouragement des Etudes grecques (about 5,000 

 volumes); the Bibliotheque de 1'Ecole des Beaux Arts 

 (rich in drawings, photographs, and illustrated works); 

 and the Bibliotheque de la Societe des Antiquaires de 

 France (about 4,000 volumes). 



Periodicals. The "Revue Archeologique " covers the 

 entire field, with admirable summaries of investigations 



