in the collection of Mr. Wernher at Bath House is signed Bartolomeus rubeus; the name being written on a cartellino lying at the feet of the donor.

A British Museum Drawing. — A. M. HIND recently found in the print room of the British Museum a drawing which is unmistakably a study for the Christ Blessing Little Children,' in the National Gallery. The drawing is recognized as of the school of Rembrandt by Hind. C. J. HOLMES names Fabritius as the pupil of Rembrandt who was probably its author.

A New Master of the Lombard School. A Madonna and Child belonging to Mr. Asher Wertheimer (published in the Burl. Mag. May, 1903) bears the signature Antonius da Solario Venetus f. It resembles the work of Andrea Solario. The only Antonio Solario known was a very different sort of painter who worked in Naples. Hence Berenson was inclined to regard the signature as faulty, and the picture as a work of Andrea. Another picture has now turned up in the collection of Mr. Humphry Ward, signed again Antonius Solarius Venetus MDVIII. It represents the head of John the Baptist on the charger and presents wide divergences from Andrea, who, curiously enough, painted the same subject in that same year. The new painter may have been his brother, but at any rate learned his art like Andrea in Venice and afterward became a member of the Leonardesque Lombard School. (ROGER FRY, Burl. Mag. April, 1905, pp. 75-76.)

The Vasari Society. - This is the name of a new association formed for the purpose of reproducing drawings by the great artists of the Renaissance. For one guinea, the Society furnishes annually about twenty reproductions. The first year's programme includes drawings by Pisanello, Leonardo, Holbein, and others, the facsimiles to be made by the Oxford Press. (Burl. Mag. May, 1905, p. 95.)

READING.

A Carved Bone Plaque. In Reiiq. XI, 1905, pp. 53 f. (pl.), J. ROMILLY ALLEN publishes a carved bone plaque found at Reading in 1845, and now in the possession of Mr. Hastings Gilford, of Reading. It is rectangular (111 × 51⁄2 in.). On it are carved a king seated between four standing soldiers at one end of the plaque, and four writing scribes at the other. Emile Molinier (Histoire générale des Arts appliqués à l'Industrie, vol. I, pl. 13, p. 34, and Gaz. Arch. 1883, p. 109) explains the same scene on a plaque in the Louvre as King David dictating the Psalms. The Reading plaque appears to be Carlovingian, not much later than 800 A.D.

BOSTON.

UNITED STATES

Acquisitions of the Museum of Fine Arts. - The museum acquired by purchase in 1904 five pictures: (1) Portrait of Philip IV of Spain, by Velasquez, (2) Portrait of Fray Feliz Hortensio Palavicino, by El Greco, (3) Portrait of an Unknown Man in Armor, by an artist under Venetian influence, (4) Portrait of an Old Woman, by Salomon Koninck, and (5) Portrait of Admiral Rainier, by Copley. (Annual Report of the Museum of Fine Arts for 1904, Cambridge, 1905, University Press.)

NEW YORK. — Acquisitions of the Metropolitan Museum. — Mr. J. P. Morgan has lent to the Metropolitan Museum two of his recent purchases, the portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester by Gainsborough and a Holy Family' by Andrea del Sarto. The museum has itself acquired a Nativity by Theotocopuli, called 'El Greco.' (Rass. d' Arte, April, 1905,

'Cronaca.') Two other new pictures are the peculiar scenes of hunting, filled with grotesque forms of satyrs, nymphs, centaurs, and wild beasts, which are good types of the grotteschi of Piero di Cosimo. They are described and reproduced by Wм. RANKIN in Rass. d' Arte, February, 1905, pp. 25–26. Other interesting acquisitions are: the Adams Gold Vase,' the gift of Edward D. Adams; the portrait of Baron Arnold Le Roye by Van Dyck, and a seaport by Claude Lorrain. From the Rogers fund were purchased thirty-seven specimens of European faience of the sixteenth century, an Entombment of Christ' in enamelled terra-cotta, dated 1487, and a collection of Japanese armor. The new policy of the museum, beginning with the appointment of Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke as director, is already taking effect. There will be a greater number of departments, and each department will have a thoroughly capable director. A collection representative of American art will be formed. Legislation has been secured for a new wing not to exceed in cost $1,250,000 and the full amount of the Jacob S. Rogers bequest has been realized, amounting to $4,904,811. (Burl. Mag. June, 1905, p. 246.)

AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY

CALIFORNIA. The Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institute. In Out West, January, 1905, is an illustrated article by C. F. LUMMIS (pp. 1-15) on the activity of the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, with special reference to Indian and Spanish songs. There follows (pp. 16-27) a description, with illustrations, by F. M. PALMER of the fine Palmer-Campbell collection of antiquities of southern California, now the property of the Southwest Society of the Institute.

AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO THE COLUMBIA VALLEY. -In Rec. Past, April, 1905, pp. 119-127 (9 figs.), H. I. SMITH describes aboriginal remains in the Columbia Valley (Washington). Stone tombs, similar to those of Ohio and Kentucky, were found, containing pipes and other objects. Especially interesting is a human figure carved from an antler. The style and costume resemble those of the plains rather than those of the northwest coast.

CAVETOWN, WASHINGTON COUNTY, MARYLAND. — Exploration of a Cave on Land controlled by Mr. G. M. Bushey. - Under the auspices of the Department of Archaeology, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, Dr. Charles Peabody and Mr. Warren K. Moorehead conducted explorations in the outer chamber of a cave or cavern. The work was carried on from May 6 to May 29, 1905. One human bone, numerous animal bones, stone knives or projectile points, one polished celt, a few fragments of pottery, and a number of awls or perforators of bone were found. Charcoal was present in great quantities, but ashes were not abundant. At the sides and in places on the floor of the cave a stalagmitic conglomerate of limestone, charcoal, and bones was found. The stalagmitic floor of the cave was broken through (in places one quarter of a metre in thickness) and a pit sunk two metres into the "red cave earth" beneath. In this no traces of man's occupation were found. In a similar red deposit, outside and to the south of the cave, fossil animal bones were found, whose identification will lead to the geological determination of that formation. It is in such a stratum, if anywhere, that ancient, "fossil," or so-called

"glacial" human remains in caves are likely to be found. The full report will be embodied in a bulletin of the department.

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MONTEZUMA, PIKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. the N. D. McEvers Mound. - The mound was partially explored by Mr. D. I. Bushnell, Mr. N. D. McEvers, Mr. J. M. Wulfing, and Dr. W. F. Parks in May, 1905. At the time the mound was about 8 m. high and 39 m. in diameter. At a depth of over 7 m. a burial crib" or "cist" was found about 4 m. long, 2 m. wide, and m. high, built of logs. A skeleton and human bones were in this, and a layer of 1195 chipped leaf-shaped implements. From the mound were also taken the following specimens: flint flakes, an obsidian flake, one spear point, fragments of mica, fragments of pottery, mussel shells, some perforated, numerous awls of bone, some of which were between m. and m. in length, forty-two pearl beads, seventytwo bone heads, animal bones, and ashes. The material of many of the chipped leaf-shaped implements is novaculite, possibly from near Hot Springs, Arkansas. (From the preliminary report by DAVID I. Bushnell.)

MITLA.—The Temples and Palaces. — In Rec. Past, IV, 1905 (June), pp. 163–167 (4 figs.), T. R. PORTER describes the ruins of Mitla, in Mexico, where excavations are to be carried on this summer. The columns, friezes, and painted hieroglyphics are especially interesting.

WISCONSIN CACHES.-In Rec. Past, IV, 1905, pp. 82-95 (9 figs.), CHARLES E. BROWN describes, with brief discussion, several caches of stone and copper implements, chiefly arrow-heads and fishhooks, found in Wisconsin.

Richard Claverhouse Jebb

1841-1905

Foreign Honorary Member
of the

Archaeological Institute of America