September 29, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



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TBM SCHOOL OF AMEMICAN ARCBEOLOGY 



The School of American Archeology, or- 

 ganized in 1907 under the act of incorpora- 

 tion of the Archeological Institute of Amer- 

 ica, held during the month of August a sum- 

 mer session in the Palace of the Governors at 

 Santa Fe, the headquarters of the School, and 

 at the Excavation Camp in El Eito de los 

 Erijoles, where the school has conducted exca- 

 vations for the past three summers. 



The work consisted of examination and 

 study of the communal house, clifF dwellings 

 and the ceremonial cave of this deserted 

 Pueblo, excavated in former seasons, and of 

 lecture courses intended to give to regular 

 students and auditors a view of the general 

 field of archeology. 



Director Hewett gave a series of peripatetic 

 lectures on the excavations already made and 

 in progress and on the culture of the Pajari- 

 tan plateau as revealed by them; Mr. Chap- 

 man, of the staff of the school, lectured on the 

 development of design in ancient Pueblo pot- 

 tery, and Mr. Harrington, also of the staff, 

 lectured on the language, social organization, 

 religion and mythology of the Mohave In- 

 dians, presenting results of his recent field 

 work in the Colorado basin. 



In addition to these courses in American 

 archeology. Professor Frank E. Thompson, of 

 the University of Colorado, gave ten lectures 

 on primitive man and the evolution of cul- 

 ture; Professor Mitchell Carroll, general sec- 

 retary of the institute, gave a series of lec- 

 tures on Greek archeology with special refer- 

 ence to the excavations in Greek lands con- 

 ducted by the institute and school at Athens; 

 and Professor Lewis B. Paton, of Hartford 

 Theological Seminary, lectured on the ancient 

 Semites, discussing the primitive Semitic 

 life, literature, art, religion and social organ- 

 ization. 



A series of Sunday-evening lectures was 

 given in the Hall of Eepresentatives in the 

 capitol, as follows : " Jerusalem in the Time of 

 Christ," by Dr. Paton; "The Holy Cities of 

 Ancient America," by Dr. Hewett; "The 

 Early History of Christianity," by President 



E. McQueen Gray; "Paul at Athens," by 

 Professor Carroll. 



The excavations of the present season in 

 the Eito were confined largely to clearing the 

 old elliptical communal dwelling in the val- 

 ley, the excavation of which was more than 

 half completed last summer. The attendance 

 upon the summer session was very good, about 

 fifty being regularly enrolled. 



The managing committee of the School of 

 American Archeology held its annual meet- 

 ing in connection with the summer session,. 

 August 24-26. Alice C. Fletcher, of WasTi- 

 mgton, D. C, was reelected chairman; the 

 ofiice of vice-chairman was created, and Wil- 

 liam H. Holmes was elected. Standing com- 

 mittees were appointed on finance, the mu- 

 seum and the scientific and educational work 

 of the school. Director Hewett reported on 

 the excavations conducted during the past 

 year at Quirigua in Guatemala, on the re- 

 search work of members of the staff and the 

 summer session. Plans were formed for the 

 conduct of the excavations in New Mexico 

 and Central America during the coming year, 

 and for the holding of a second summer ses- 

 sion in August, 1912. 



APPSOPEIATIONS MADE FOB SCIENTIFIC 



PUBPOSES AT TEE POBTSMOVTB 



MEETING OF TEE BBITISE 



ASSOCIATION 



Section A — Mathematical and Physical Science 



Seismologieal Observations £60 



Upper Atmosphere 30 



Magnetic Observations at Falmouth 25 



Establishing a Solar Observatory in Australia 50 

 Grant to the International Commission on 



Physical and Chemical Constants 30 



Tabulation of Bessel Functions 15 



Section B — Chemistry 



Study of Hydro-aromatic Substances 20 



Dynamic Isomerism 30 



Transformation of Aromatic Nitro-amines . . 10 



Eleetroanalysis lo 



Plant Enzymes 30 



Section C — Geology 



Erratic Blocks 5 



Paleozoic Eocks ] 



