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with Dorp f eld, who has Hved in Greece since 1878 and during this 

 period has done more than all other scholars together for the ad- 

 vancement of knowledge of classical architecture and Athenian 

 topograph3\ In Asia Minor I was with Professor Richardson, who 

 has been for ten years director of the American School of Classical 

 Studies at Athens. 



Since coming to England I have spent more than a month in the 

 libraries of the British Museum, reading reports of explorations and 

 excavations in lands " near the Mediterranean." In the course of 

 my journe5'S in southern and northern Europe, I have been brought 

 into close relations with several archaeologists of distinction, includ- 

 ing some who have been engaged in excavations and other explora- 

 tions, and I have used my best endeavors to secure from them, as 

 from all other sources, the information which you desire. 



On the first tour with Dr. Dorpfeld our party visited the excava- 

 tions of the American School at Athens, both at Corinth and at the 

 Argive Herseum, those of Dr. Schliemann at Tiryns and at M}^cen8e, 

 of the Greek Archeological Society at Epidaurus, of Vollgraff at 

 Argos ; then, passing to Arcadia, we saw the results of the work of 

 the Germans and the French at Tegea and of the British School at 

 Megalopolis ; then, crossing Arcadia, we observed the excavations 

 of the Greeks at Lycosura. Thence we went to Ithome and to 

 Olympia, where we spent three days ; thence to I,eucas (which 

 Dorpfeld holds to be the Homeric Ithaca), to the classical Ithaca, 

 and to Delphi, where the excavations of the French were carefully 

 inspected. On this first expedition Dr. Dorpfeld had a part)' of 

 about forty, mostly philologists, but several specialists in archeolog)'. 

 The most noted of the party were professor Diels, of the University 

 of Berlin, and Professor Forster, of Breslau. Dorpfeld lectured 

 from two to five hours every day, expounding the ruins with great 

 care, so arranging his lectures as to touch on almost every topic of 

 ancient architecture, though the order of the discussion was deter- 

 mined by the geographical situation of the ruins, the prehistoric 

 palace of Tiryns and the Argive Heraeum being followed by the 

 visit to the sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidaurus, and this by the 

 palace, fortress, and tombs of Mycenae, etc. The company com- 

 prised so man)' scholars of special attainments that informal discus- 

 sions often brought out details additional to the lectures. Special 

 trains were in readiness whenever it was desirable and were stopped 

 whenever Dorpfeld wished to show a particular object or view. For 

 the trip to Eeucas, Ithaca, and Delphi a special steamer was char- 



