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' ' portage ' ' by the French troops at the time of the recent military 

 occupation of the island by the Great Powers. What support Miss 

 Boyd is likely to receive from the society which has furnished her a 

 small sum of money (I think only $2,000 this past year) for the work 

 of i90i-'o3, I do not know. Such explorations can be most econom- 

 ically administered with a larger sum of money to expend. 



As for Miss Boyd's personality, I may say that she graduated at 

 Smith College about 1 2 years ago, and is now instructor in arche- 

 ology in that institution. In the year 1 896-' 97 she was a student in 

 the American School at Athens, and was preparing to enter the com- 

 petitive examination for a fellowship of the school. On the outbreak 

 of the war with Turkey, however, she went with several Athenian 

 ladies as a volunteer nurse to the hospitals of Thessaly, where she 

 attracted much attention because of her unusual "capacity." In a 

 later year she entered the fellowship competition which she had 

 abandoned in the spring of 1897, and was successful. At the expi- 

 ration of the year of her first fellowship she was appointed Hoppin 

 fellow of the school, with a stipend of $1,000, half of which she 

 used for her first excavations at Kavusi. Her life in Thessaly aided 

 to give her an excellent command of the Modern Greek language, 

 and brought her into touch with the Greek people in a way which 

 has been useful to her in Crete. I should add that her reports of 

 her explorations are admirably clear and methodical. 



The suggestion has been made that America might join with Mr. 

 Evans in his work at Cnossus, but he has nearly accomplished his 

 great task. The great palace has been uncovered. It is true that 

 an earlier palace lies in ruins under those of the later palace, and he 

 will run some tunnels next year to learn what he can of the earlier 

 without disturbing the later structures, but his work is substantially 

 completed. 



As for fresh sites of excavation in Crete, almost nothing has been 

 done for the exploration of the western end of the island, which we 

 may suppose to have stood in the closest relations to the peoples on 

 the mainland of Greece ; but no site there seems to be preeminently 

 attractive, and a careful archeological survey and exploration of the 

 island seems wise before further excavations are made, though such 

 an exploration might discover almost at once a particularly attractive 

 site. A French survey of the island under Ardaillon was planned a 

 year ago, but I have not learned that it has been actually undertaken. 



