54 REPORTS ON INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



ARCHEOLOGY. 



American School of Classical Studies at Athens. James R.Wheeler, 

 Chairman of Managing Committee, Cokimbia University, New 

 York, New York. Grant No. 259. {a) Maintenance of a fellow- 

 ship in architecture at Athefis, $1,000. {b) Excavation on the site 

 of ancient Corinth and exploration, $1,500. $2,500. 



Abstract of Report. — (a) Mr. Gorham PhiUips Stevens, M. S., 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has given his entire time to 

 the preparation of a series of drawings of the temple on the Acropolis 

 at Athens, known as the Erechtheum. The drawings are now prac- 

 tically completed and are of very high excellence, attracting much 

 attention at the recent International Archeological Congress in 

 Athens. The school is preparing to issue an exhaustive work on this 

 temple, and the publication of the drawings will form an important 

 part of it. Mr. Stevens has been of great assistance to the commis- 

 sion of architects who have had in charge the recent repairs on the 

 Erechtheum, and has made an exceedingly clever and certain restora- 

 tion of the design of the east front of the temple, the construction of 

 which had previously not been understood. The management of 

 the school looks with high satisfaction upon the work which he ha 

 accomplished. 



ib) Owing to the meeting of the International Congress of Arche- 

 ologists at Athens in the spring, and to unexpected difficulties in 

 regard to dumping privileges, which were made by certain villagers of 

 Old Corinth, the beginning of the season's excavation work has been 

 much delayed. The immediate problem before the excavators, how- 

 ever, is the determination of the limits of the market-place (Agora), 

 the position of which was discovered in last year's campaign. It 

 seems probable that the results of this year's work will be almost 

 entirely of topographical interest. A fuller report will be submitted 

 at a later date. 



American School of Classical Studies in Rome. Andrew F. West, 

 Chairman of Managing Committee, Princeton University, Prince- 

 ton, New Jersey. Grant No. 260. («) Mainte7iance of two 

 research fellozvships in classical archeology , $1 , 600. {b) Picblication 

 of results of scientific investigatioji, $1,000. $2,600. 



The first fellows appointed under the grant did not begin their 

 work in Rome until the autumn of 1905, so that there is nothing as 

 yet to report. The first volume of papers of the school, embodying 

 the results of original scientific research, is in press. 



