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support. The valuable report by Mr. Bandelier upon his studies in Mexico in 
1 88 1 is partly in type, but its publication will have to be abandoned, as a sum of 
not less that $500 is needed to complete it. 
The firman under which the investigations at Assos were carried on expired 
in May, and all that remained to be done was to close the works, to complete the 
drawings, and to make the division with the Turkish authorities of the antiquities 
discovered by the expedition. "The instructions originally given to the director 
of the expedition," says the report, " to deal with scrupulous honesty with the 
Turks, and to comply literally with' the terms of the firman, have been strictly 
followed in spite of the example of other expeditions and of the temptations 
afforded to secure by underhand dealing antiquities of great interest to western 
scholars." The committee thinks that this course has been appreciated by the 
Turkish authorities, and one may well imagine their surprise at such unusual 
conduct, when it is considered that all former expeditions engaged without scruple 
in shameful contest in knavery, and then plumed themselves upon coming out 
best. The late Turkish Minister at Washington, Aristarchi Bey, has promised to 
promote a favorable consideration of the desire of the Institute that the sculptures 
of the temple at Assos should be ceded to it, and the United States Government, 
through its representative at Cons':antinople, has also interested itself in the mat- 
ter. In order to promote the acquisition of as large a share of the antiquities as 
as possible, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts has placed $2,000 at the disposal 
of the Institute, the objects secured by the latter to be presented to the museum. 
Among the latter discoveries at Assos reported by Mr. Clarke, who is at the head 
of the expedition, the greatest interest seems to attach to a number oi figurini, 
most of them archaic, but one of them, in Mr. Clarke's opinion, belonging to the 
best age of Greek art. The little statue is described as truly beautiful. A naked 
boy sits upon the back of a proudly out-stepping horse, in an easy, graceful post- 
ure. The animal has a plume of some kind upon his head, the bridle being 
painted in black hnes. The boy's body is pink all over, his hair is a rich reddish 
brown, eyebrows and lids black. The figure * * * * is per- 
fect in preservation; it has not a nick or scratch." 
The second annual report of the Committee on the American School of 
Classical Studies at Athens, which is appended, records the successful organiza- 
tion and actual operation of the school, ' ' with auspices in all respects favorable ' 
— a somewhat enthusiastic assertion, in view of the pressing appeal for funds im- 
mediately following. The school has a yearly revenue of $3,500 contributed by 
fourteen collages, but an endowment is needed to render feasible the appoint- 
ment of a permanent secretary. The committee "venture, therefore, to appeal 
to the richer portion of our cpmmunity to provide the Institute with the means 
for this object. It would be a distinction greatly to be coveted to have estab- 
lished a foundation of this sort, which might perpetuate the name of i^s founder 
through successive generations as that of one who had not merely the means, but 
the will, to contribute toward the certain promotion of the higher intellectual 
interests of his country." 
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