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In an earlier volvime (Paris, 1891) he had repubhshed the albums of 

 Millin and Millingen. In every case, where known, he gives the 

 present location of each vase he publishes. At the back of the 

 " Repertoire," there is a splendid bibliography, which is brought up 

 to date later by Walters. 



American scholars have taken very kindly to vases, and the best 

 short chapter on vases and their history and chronology ever written, 

 is that by the late Professor J. R. Wheeler of Columbia, in Fowler 

 and Wheeler's "Greek Archaeology" (New York, 1909). Other 

 names of good men and women who work in this field are Paul 

 Baur of Yale, George H. Chase of Harvard, D. M. Robinson of 

 Johns Hopkins, and especially J. C. Hoppin of Bryn Mawr, whose 

 " Euthymides and his Fellows " has recently been published by the 

 Harvard University Press, and is a very important book ; Edward 

 Robinson, director of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, who 

 when connected with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, wrote 

 the catalogue of their vases ; and Arthur Fairbanks, director of the 

 Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, who has written the standard book 

 on that class of vases known as Attic White Lekythoi, and whose 

 catalogue of the Boston vases is impatiently awaited. Among 

 women, there is Miss Hetty Goldman of New York, who has written 

 soine excellent articles ; Miss Gisela M. A. Richter of the Metro- 

 politan Museum in New York, whose work is of the highest order; 

 and Miss Mary Hamilton Swindler of Bryn Mawr, who published 

 so ably the fine red-figured cylix owned by this Society, and who has 

 published a number of most praiseworthy papers in the American 

 Journal of Archceology. 



The twelve great museums of the world, for vases as I would 

 rank them, are: (i) The British Museum, (2) the Antiquarium, 

 Berlin, (3) the Musee du Louvre, Paris, (4) the Museo Nazionale, 

 Naples, (5) the National Museum, Athens, (6) the Alte Pinako- 

 thek, Munich, (7) the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, (8) the Her- 

 mitage, Petrograd, (9) the Etruscan Museum of the Vatican, (10) 

 the Metropolitan INIuseum, New York, (11) the Museo Civico, 

 Bologna, (12) the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. 



Thus one sees that this country possesses two collections of vases 

 of the first rank. 



