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Pumpelly, Raphael, Newport, Rhode Island. Grant No. 229. Trans- 

 Caspian Archeological Expedition. (For previous reports see Year 

 Book No. 2, p. xxxiii, and Year Book No. 3, pp. 75-79.) $26,000. 

 Abstract of Report. — The Executive Committee having decided to 

 postpone the expedition, Professor Pumpelly remained in Europe until 

 July, preparing for publication the results of the observations of the 

 different members of the expedition of 1904. To this end he made a 

 broad study of the prehistoric archeology of Europe and the Mediter- 

 ranean, both by extensive reading and in the prehistoric museums of 

 Naples, Bologna, Zurich, Vienna, Berlin, Paris, and London. Since 

 returning to America, work on the report has progressed rapidly. It 

 will contain many plates and illustrations, and the greatest apprecia- 

 tion has already been expressed by leading European archeologists 

 relative to the results which it will disclose. It will embrace reports 

 by Dr. Hubert Schmidt, of Berlin, Dr. J. Ulrich Duerst, of Zurich, and 

 Prof,. F. A. Gooch, of Yale University. 



Ward, William H., 130 Fulton street, New York, New York. Grant 

 No. 131. Study of oriental art recorded o?i seals, etc., from western 

 Asia a?id Egypt. (For previous reports see Year Book No. 2, p. 

 xvii, and Year Book No. 3, p. 85.) $1,500. 



Dr. Ward reports that he fully expects to finish the work during 

 the first half of 1906. 



The work divides itself into geographical regions and chronolog- 

 ical periods, and requires classification accordingly, with divisions 

 and subdivisions, according to the designs, and with the attempt to 

 identify the deities, emblems, and various objects drawn on the 

 cylinders. An attempt has been made to include every possible 

 type and to bring together sufficiently numerous examples of each 

 for the use of scholars. There is now substantially completed the 

 writing and the typewriting of the entire Babylonian period, both 

 archaic and later; also of the Assj^rian seals; then of those from 

 the Hittite and Syrian regions; also the entire Persian seals, the 

 Sabean, and a considerable portion of the miscellaneous and unclas- 

 sifiable cylinders (not a large number). There remain to be studied 

 the Cypriote and the Egyptian. Further than this, the biblio- 

 graphical and the introductory chapters have been prepared, and 

 there has been written, but not copied, a considerable portion of 

 the concluding chapters, which take up involved topics, such as the 

 study of symbols, the succession of garments, the weapons of war 

 and chase, altars and sacrifices, and animals and plants. 



