210 REPORTS ON INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



time to time, published minor results. He submitted to the Munich Academy 

 of Science a monograph "Studia Palsegraphica," a contribution to the history 

 of early Latin Minuscule and to the dating of Visigothic MSS. ; this was 

 published in the Sitzungsberichte der k. bayerischen Akademie der Wissen- 

 schaft, November 1910. Dr. Loew has also contributed to the Berliner 

 philologische Wochenschrift (July 22, 1911) an article on "The Naples MS. 

 of Festus ; Its Home and Date." During the year the great monograph on 

 Beneventum Script, which has been the primary object of all his activity, 

 has made steady progress, and largely through the interest of the Vatican 

 library its publication has been undertaken. It consists of two parts : 



(a) Script ura Beneventana: a series of about 100 photographic reproduc- 

 tions of examples of the Beneventan Script, with explanatory text, produced 

 in the style of the publication of the "Society of Dilettanti." 



(&) The Beneventan Script: a history of the origin, development, and 

 influence of this famous school of writing. 



The existence of these two works is almost entirely owing to the generosity 

 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



Miss Dora Johnson, who has been previously a member of the school, has 

 pursued her investigation of the MSS. of the letters of Pliny. During the 

 year she worked in the libraries of Oxford, London, Rouen, Paris, Turin, 

 Venice, Rome, Naples, Florence, Pistoia, Cesena, Modena, Parma, and Milan. 

 She studied and inspected 125 MSS. of the letters. An annotated list of all 

 the known MSS. of the letters has been prepared for publication. 



Muller, W. Max, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Grant No. 646. Continua- 

 tion of archeological research in Egypt. (For previous reports see Year 

 Books Nos. 3, 5, 6, 9.) $2,000 



Professor Miiller worked in Egypt during the summer and fall of 1910, 

 beginning with Cairo. In upper Egypt his principal work was on the doomed 

 Island of Philse, where he collected the demotic inscriptions. He found be- 

 tween two hundred and three hundred of these engraved or written with 

 black or red ink, or only sketched with reddle on the walls of the temples, 

 although the Nile had destroyed much which might have been saved if an 

 effort could have been made two years previously. The study of this rich 

 material will occupy considerable time. The Egyptian government aided 

 these researches in every way. 



After concluding at Philae, work was begun at Thebes, where new and very 

 important results were obtained, especially on the western side of the ancient 

 capital of Egypt, in the necropolis. The temple of Karnak also yielded some 

 excellent material. Some time was well spent in studies in Sudanese negro 

 languages, and material obtained which will be printed in the future. 



