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1895 the American School of Classical Studies at Rome (v. infra). 

 It cooperated also in the establishment in 1900 of the American School 

 for Oriental Study and Research in Palestine (v. infra}. A Commit- 

 tee on American Archaeology was created in 1899 and a Committee 

 on Art (now the Committee on Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies) 

 in 1904. The Institute has excavated the site of ancient Assos in the 

 Troad and made explorations in Crete, has directed the Wolfe expedi- 

 tions to Babylonia and to Asia Minor, and has made special investi- 

 gations in Mexico, New Mexico and among the Indians of the South- 

 western United States. 



Object. To promote and direct archaeological research, by aiding in the main- 

 tenance of schools for archaeological study, sending out expeditions for special 

 investigation, assisting the efforts of independent explorers, publishing the re- 

 sults of exploration and research, holding general meetings for the reading and 

 discussion of papers on archaeological subjects, and by disseminating exact in- 

 formation in regard to the progress of research by means of free public lectures 

 under the auspices of the affiliated societies. 



Meetings. Annual meeting of the Council, 2d Saturday in May. General meet- 

 ing for the reading and discussion of archaeological papers, appointed ordi- 

 narily for the week which includes Jan. i. Annual meeting of each of the 

 affiliated societies, held in most cases during the ist week of Nov. 



Membership. 1,201 annual members (dues, $10) ; 164 life members ($100) ; 8 for- 

 eign honorary (limited to 10). All payments are made to the affiliated societies, 

 10% being retained by them for local uses. Any local archaeological society 

 consisting of not less than 25 members of the Institute may, by vote of the 

 Council, be affiliated with the Institute. 



Publications. 



ist-i/th Annual report . . . 1879/80-1895/96. Cambridge, 1880-90; 

 Boston, 1891-96. 8. 



Price: soc. each. no. I, o. p. 



Continued in the American journal of archaeology, 2d ser., v. 1-3 and 



supplements to v. 4. ff. 



3d-Sth include ist-3d annual reports of the committee on the American 

 school of classical studies at Athens. 



PAPERS of the Archaeological institute of America. 



American series. I-V. Boston, 1881-84; Cambridge, 1890-92. 8. 



By A. F. A. Bandelier. No more published. 



Contents: v. I. Historical introduction to studies among the sedentary 

 Indians of New Mexico. A visit to the aboriginal ruins in the valley 

 of the Rio Pecos. 1881. (2d ed., price: $i.) v. 2. Report of an 

 archaeological tour in Mexico, in 1881. 1884. (Price: $5.) v. 3-4. 

 Final report of investigations among the Indians of the southwestern 

 United States, carried on mainly in the years from 1880 to 1885. 1890-92. 

 (Price: $3 per vol.) v. 5. Hemenway southwestern archaeological ex- 

 pedition. Contributions to the history of the southwestern portion of 

 the United States. 1890. (Price: $2.) 



