ARCHEOLOGY. 



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

 Chairman of the Managing Committee, Columbia University, New York, 

 N. Y. Grant No. 619, allotted May 16, 1910. Maintenance of a fellow- 

 ship in architecture at Athens. (For previous reports see Year Books 

 Nos. 4-10.) $1,200 



Mr. William B. Dinsmoor, the fellow in architecture, has followed the 

 same lines in his work that he did last year. He has made great progress in 

 the epigraphical work which bears upon his architectural study, and some 

 of the results of this he will publish in the American Journal of Archaeology 

 during the coming winter. He has been able to identify more unrecognized 

 inscriptions and thus materially to advance our knowledge. Mr. Dinsmoor 

 has also carried his studies at Delphi somewhat further, and these have been 

 printed in the Bulletin de correspondance hellenique for the current year. 



Brigham, William T., Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaiian 

 Islands. Grant No. 341, allotted January 9, 1906. Surveying, photo- 

 graphing, and describing the heiau, or ancient stone temples of the Ha- 

 waiians, in connection with a treatise on "Ancient Hawaiian Worship." 

 (For previous reports see Year Books Nos. 5-8.) $2,500 



No special expedition under the grant has been undertaken during the 

 year. While Mr. Stokes was on the islands of Niihau and Kauai, engaged 

 in work directly concerning the Bishop Museum, he examined thoroughly 

 the few heiau on Niihau and visited one newly reported on Kauai. Niihau 

 is a small island to the northwest of the Hawaiian group, and is seldom 

 visited by strangers. Mr. Stokes had expected to gather much heiau lore 

 from the natives of the island on account of its seclusion, but on landing it 

 was found that the original inhabitants had gradually become scattered over 

 the other islands of the group since the establishment, between i860 and 

 1870, of the present ranch, and that the natives now living there know 

 nothing of the history of the island. 



A new phase in structure was observed on Niihau, in the form of a heiau 

 of the luakini class built of blocks of coral sandstone. All large heiau 

 examined elsewhere were built of basaltic blocks. 



Dr. Brigham is still engaged in collecting material for his treatise. 



Van Deman, Esther B., Rome, Italy. Grant No. 752, allotted December 15, 



191 1. Research Associate in Roman archeology. (For previous reports 



see Year Books Nos. 9 and 10.) $1,200 



The fall and winter months of the year 1911-12 were devoted almost 



exclusively to the preparation, for publication in a preliminary form, of the 



canon, or norm, of construction of the concrete monuments in and near 



Rome. In the course of this work several hundred monuments or parts of 



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