ARCHEOLOGY — BRIGHAM, MULLER. 17I 



Apart from my archeological studies I have also been engaged in a 

 certain amount of philological work the past year. A little paper entitled 

 "Ignis arumphea" was printed in the Rheinisches Museum this winter 

 (1907, p. 159), and just before leaving Europe I sent to Prof. C. U. Clark, 

 of Yale, now in Marburg, the first draft of an essay on the clausulse 

 employed by Ammianus Marcellinus, which I hope to see published soon. 



My interests have thus been rather varied. I should have preferred to 

 let the philological work wait until my return to America, but I feared that 

 my discoveries might be anticipated. The year has been extremely profitable 

 to me, and I hope that its results will prove satisfactory to the Committee, 

 to which, in closing this report, I desire to express my thanks for the oppor- 

 tunity which I have enjoyed. 



(b) Besides the work of these two research fellows a second volume of 

 School Papers, embodying various results of archeological research, is being 

 prepared by an editorial committee composed of Prof. J. C. Egbert, of Colum- 

 bia University ; Professor Planter, of Western Reserve University, and Pro- 

 fessor Bennett, of Cornell University. The volume will probably appear 

 during the coming winter. 



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

 Grant No. 341. Surveying, photographing, and describing the heiau, or 

 ancient stone temples of the Haivaiians, in connection zidth a treatise 

 on "Ancient Hawaiian Worship." For previous report see Year Book 

 No. 5, p. 58.) $2,500. 



During the past year the field work has been on the largest island of the 

 group, Hawaii, and while there were formerly only five or six of the old 

 temples that were more than names, more than ten times as many have been 

 located and their original plan has been restored to some extent. This 

 proves to have been varied and the variations are often puzzling. Where 

 modern alterations have converted the ancient inclosures into cattle-pens 

 or other economic uses foreign to their original intent, it is generally possible 

 to eliminate these; but sometimes such alterations consist in removing por- 

 tions of the walls or platforms, and then it is more difficult, if not impossible, 

 to conjecture the intent of the builder. 



It is hoped that the final report on these investigations will be ready before 

 the end of another year. For this a large number of photographs of idols 

 and paraphernalia of worship are ready, besides views of the heiau. 



Miiller, W. Max, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Grant No. 355. Continuation 



of archeological researches in Egypt. (For previous reports see Year 



Book No. 3, p. 84, and Year Book No. 5, p. 59.) $2,000. 



During September and October, 1906, Dr. Miiller worked among the 



temple ruins and tombs at Thebes, first on the east side of the Nile and later 



on the west side, collecting chiefly inscriptions and representations which bear 



on the intercourse of the ancient Egyptians with Asia. A large number of 



copies, drawings, photographs, tracings, and paper squeezes were collected, 



almost entirely in and near Thebes. 



