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charged these functions is known to us all. As 

 au engineer he has stood high in his profession, 

 and, in conformity with a principle which he has 

 urged on his colleagues, he has never allowed 

 himself to fall out of touch with its practical 

 side. As a teacher and a writer on technical 

 subjects he has had the power to make intelligible 

 and clear the abstrusest of problems, and outside 

 the class room he has not lost touch with his 

 pupils. As an administrator even his colleagues 

 know his promptitude, his patience, his eonsider- 

 ateness, his remarkable sympathy with the stu- 

 dents. 



But behind and above all these activities has 

 been to us ever the loftiness of his character and 

 the exceptional breadth of his culture. He has 

 been not more engineer than poet; and his love of 

 literature, his sensitiveness to art, his fine ethical 

 enthusiasm, his rare modesty and courtesy, have 

 set their mark on all his work, on all his views. 

 In his teaching there has been nothing of the 

 pedagogue, in his administration nothing of the 

 martinet. We shall remember him, as do his stu- 

 dents, primarily as man, as friend ; and, while 

 we lose him with regret, we rejoice with him in 

 the new freedom to which he brings such rich 

 resources. 



THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PREHISTORIC 

 STUDIES IN FRANCE 



This school enters on its second j'ear of 

 activity in July, 1922, under the joint auspices 

 of the Archeologieal Institute of America and 

 the American Anthropological Association. It 

 makes its appeal for students on the same 

 footing as the American schools at Athens, 

 Rome, Jerusalem and Santa Fe. 



Both men and women are admitted either 

 for the period of one year or for a shorter one. 

 The work is divided into three parts: excava- 

 tions in a Paleolithic site given the school by 

 Dr. Henri-Martin, of Paris, to last about three 

 months; excursions in fall and spring to the 

 most famous caves, rock-shelters and neolithic 

 sites of France. These include the Dordogne, 

 the Pyrenees and the megaliths of Brittany. 

 The last six months or so of work in Paris 

 include lectures freely offered by the Eeole 

 3' Anthropologic, museum excursions under the 

 lead of the director of the school and library 

 research. 



For those who enter for the whole year, two 



scholarships are offered for competition, one 

 of five thousand and one of two thousand 

 francs ; the former will suffice to keep a student 

 through the year in France, if he can pay his 

 way thither and back. There may be estab- 

 lished a small loan fund, and there are occa- 

 sional opportunities of earning money abroad 

 while continuing work, but this method is not 

 advised. At the end of the year a certificate is 

 awarded, and a thesis should be written and 

 presented by the student. 



The excavations have this advantage that the 

 students get into the ground themselves and 

 do their own picking, for it is this rather than 

 digging. Their duty is to learn what they are 

 looking for and to understand it when found. 



Flint implements, bones of the reindeer, horse, 

 bison and mammoth occur, and many of them 

 bear marks of contemporary work with flint 

 implements; this is rather a "specialty" of the 

 site of La Quina, where the American site is 

 situated. 



It is hoped that many will take advantage 

 of this offer, and apply for entry to the school. 

 All such applications as well as those for the 

 scholarships should be sent as soon as pos- 

 sible to 



Chaeles Peabodt 

 Chairman of the Governing Board, 



Peabody Museum op Harvard TJniveesitt, 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts 



THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AT THE ST. 



LOUIS MEETING OF THE AMERICAN 



HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 



Foe the third consecutive year the subject of 

 the history of science received the attention 

 of the members of the American Historical 

 Association at their recent annual meeting at 

 St. Louis. The session especially devoted to 

 the subject took the form of a luncheon con- 

 ference at which Professor Lynn Thorndike of 

 Western Reserve University presided. Inter- 

 esting informal addresses were given by Pro- 

 fessor James H. Breasted, director of the 

 Haskell Oriental Museum of the University of 

 Chicago, on the state of research concerning 

 the science of ancient Egypt; by Professor 

 Charles H. Haskins, of Harvard University, on 

 the opportunities for research in the history of 



