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was appointed for the study of numismatics. It turned its attention 

 first to the work of collecting the ancient coins of northern Greece. 

 Mommsen so greatly appreciated this effort that he turned over to the 

 academy the 28,000 Marks ($7,000) given him on the fiftieth anni- 

 versary of his professorship. Vol. I. appeared in 1898. In 1897 two 

 volumes of a work on 'The Posography of the Time of the Eoman 

 Emperors' appeared. Mommsen suggested it and was chairman of a 

 commission having it in charge. 



The Fronto Commission, seeking to solve a problem proposed by 

 Xiebuhr, undertook the publication of the Theodosian Codex and with 



F. E. D. SCHLEIEKMAI IIKH. 



the proceeds of the Savigny fund the publication of what is called a 

 ' Vocabularium juris prudential Romansc' has been begun. Between 

 1878 and 1888 a complete collection of Attic inscriptions was pub- 

 lished, and in 1899, under the direction of Mr. Frakel, the printing of 

 a treatise on the inscriptions found in the IVloponessus was started, 

 and preparations were made for the printing of those of the islands, 

 those of Lesbos, Nesos and Tenedos being ready at that time. On this 

 work of gathering inscriptions, editing them and giving them to the 

 world, the academy has been engaged more than eighty years. In 1891 



