(1) the doing of the hair in a cue bent against the head but not bound by a fillet (Mon. d. Inst. II, 22; Gerhard, A.V.B.), (2) a method of outlining the bony structure of the hind legs of horses (Gerhard, Etrus. u. Camp. Vas. 12, and A. V.B. 107), (3) the binding of the reins with a strap (A. V.B. 107), (4) the decoration of the horse-collar (Etrus. u. Camp. Vas. 12), (5) the binding of the foretop of horses into a pompon, and (6) the decoration of the crest-support of the helmet with a line that zigzags from one side of the support to the other (A. V.B. 107).

During the above investigation the following unsigned vases were found to belong to Exekias. That illustrated in A.V.B. 137 was identified by characteristics Nos. 2 and 3; that given in A.V.B. 122– 123 by characteristics Nos. 3 and 6 (the vase is signed by Cholchos as maker, thus showing that Exekias worked with another artist), and the vase illustrated in Etrus. u. Camp. Vas. 20 by characteristic No. 5. In the last vase the female figure at the left has the same decoration on the chiton as Athena on the "Cholchos" vase.

8. Professor Karl P. Harrington, of the University of Maine, The Topography of Cicero's Boyhood Home.

Otto Eduard Schmidt, in his study of Cicero's Villas, has taken, it seems to me, essentially the right view with regard to Cicero's birthplace, after the previous confusion between conflicting authorities. The purpose of this paper was to offer a rapid review of the grounds upon which the question must be decided; to sum up certain reasons for settling upon one of the two proposed sites between which Schmidt wavers; and, in confirmation of the position taken, to reproduce before the eyes of those present the localities concerned, most of which are not shown by Schmidt.

The walk described in section 14 of the De Legibus must have been up the right bank of the Liris to the ancient bridge, of which remains are still visible opposite the Fibrenus delta. Crossing there, Cicero spoke at once of being at his boyhood home, and afterwards reached the small island in the Fibrenus to which Cicero says he was wont to retire for study. But his remark that his home was surrounded by ice-cold streams makes it clear that it was on the Fibrenus delta.

There are two deltas of the Fibrenus. The site was probably fixed on the smaller one, to save the best land and to set the house properly back from the road that led from the bridge. The many ancient marbles in the church and cloister of San Domenico confirm this view.

9. Dr. Cyrus Adler, of the Smithsonian Institution, The Exhibit of the United States National Museum in Historic Archaeology at the St. Louis Exposition.

The United States National Museum, being largely dependent upon Government exploring expeditions, and having as its primary duty in archaeology the preservation of monuments and objects belonging to the territory of the United States, has, nevertheless, if only for purposes of comparison, been engaged during the past ten years or more in bringing together a study collection of objects of historic archaeology. With the very slender means allowed by Congress to the Museum, these collections must of necessity consist of casts, although occasionally, through the generosity of foreign governments or individuals, originals of interest and value have been received. As the exhibit of the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum at St. Louis was intended to give a full idea of the operations of both establishments, the subject of historic archaeology was given a space, though small, in the Smithsonian exhibit. It is mainly to bring to the notice of this Institute the fact that the national collections include the archaeology of other parts of the world than America that this brief description of the collection that was set up at St. Louis was written. There was but one original of importance, a good example of Graeco-Egyptian portraiture, one of the famous Graf collection. Ancient Egypt was represented by casts of the lid of the sarcophagus of Sebaski, an Egyptian priest of about 700 B.C., the lid of the sarcophagus of Queen Ankhneferabra, the wife of Amasis II, 572-528 B.C., an Egyptian recumbent lion, the divinity Horus and his altar, and Hapi, the Egyptian God of the Nile. The originals of all these casts are in the British Museum.

Of Assyrian and Babylonian objects there were casts of the Human-headed Lion and the Assyrian four-winged Female Figure, in the British Museum; the Famous Wounded Lioness; a Babylonian Altar with Bas-reliefs, in Paris, discovered by M. de Sarzec in the ruins of Telloh; one of the eagle-headed winged figures in front of the sacred tree; one of the winged figures, holding in one hand a basket and in the other a fir cone; Sennacherib receiving the Submission of Lachish; the well-known Babylonian Votive Tablet of the Sun-god, and probably more important than all, as being more recently discovered and more in the public eye, a cast of the famous Code of Hammurabi.

Of Greek objects, a Group of the Two Fates; the Hermes from

the Island of Andros, the original of which is in the national museum at Athens; the Eleusinian Relief from the Museum at Athens; and the Laocoon Group, in the Vatican Museum.

Of Roman objects, Cast of Ceres, in the Vatican Museum; Head of the Discus Thrower, in the Lancelotti Palace at Rome; Orpheus, Eurydice, and Hermes, in the Villa Albani, at Rome; and portions of the reliefs in the triumphal arch of Trajan at Beneventum, purchased through the American School of Classical Studies in Rome; finally, the most noteworthy modern piece of sculpture, the Moses of Michelangelo.

The following papers were read by title:

1. Professor F. B. Tarbell, of the University of Chicago, Notes on the Ceiling of the Greek Temple-Cella.

Modern authorities on Greek architecture commonly assume the existence of a flat wooden ceiling over the cella of a Greek temple. Inasmuch as this assumption has been called in question, the present paper attempts to review the relevant evidence — literary, epigraphical, and monumental. As a result, a ceiling over the cella seems to be guaranteed or made highly probable for the temples of Zeus and of Hera at Olympia, of Asclepius at Epidaurus, of Poseidon (so-called) at Paestum, of Aphaia on the island of Aegina, of Concord (so-called) at Agrigentum, and for the Parthenon, the Erechtheum, and the Theseum (so-called) at Athens. On the other hand, there is reason to believe that some Greek temples had no ceiling over the cella. This is fully recognized by Choisy, Histoire de l'architec ture, I, p. 444.

2. Rev. Walter Lowrie, of Boston, The So-called Coptic Textiles in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

3. Professor Arthur Fairbanks, of the University of Iowa, Notes on White Lecythi.

4. Professor D. Cady Eaton, of Yale University, The Heads of St. Germain.

5. Professor Francis W. Kelsey, of the University of Michigan, Pompeii and St. Pierre.

6. Dr. T. L. Comparette, of Chicago, Some Problems of Roman Engineering.

7. Dr. George H. Chase, of Harvard University, Some Unpublished Terra-cotta Figures in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

8. Dr. Theodore Woolsey Heermance, Director of the School at Athens, Report on the Excavations at Corinth in 1904. (See Am. J. Arch. VIII, 1904, pp. 433-441.)

9. Dr. Hans H. Spoer, of Astoria, N.Y., The Inter-relation of Menhirs, Dolmens, and Cupmarks in Palestine.

10. Professor Thomas D. Seymour, of Yale University, Sea Life in Homer.

The following members of the Institute were registered as in attendance at one or more of the sessions of the General Meeting:

Of the Baltimore Society:

Mr. James Teackle Dennis, Baltimore; Miss Esther B. Van Deman, The Woman's College, Baltimore; Professor H. L. Wilson, Johns Hopkins University.

Of the Boston Society:

Mr. Edwin H. Abbot, Cambridge; Mr. Harlan P. Amen, Phillips Exeter Academy; Miss C. Borden, Boston; Mr. C. P. Bowditch, Boston; Miss Harriet A. Boyd, Smith College; Professor Alice V. V. Brown, Wellesley College; Miss Mary H. Buckingham, Boston; Professor H. E. Burton, Dartmouth College; Miss Eva Channing, Boston; Dr. George H. Chase, Harvard University; Rev. Dr. Edward Lord Clark, Brookline; Dr. Arthur Stoddard Cooley, Auburndale; Professor William K. Denison, Tufts College; Professor Howard F. Doane, Charlestown; Mr. William W. Dove, Andover; Mr. Thomas H. Eckfeldt, Concord School; Mrs. Samuel Eliot, Boston; Mrs. John W. Elliot, Boston; Mr. W. Amory Gardner, Groton School; Professor William W. Goodwin, Harvard University; Professor John C. Gray, Harvard University; Mrs. John C. Gray, Boston; Dr. Walter D. D. Hadzsits, Smith College; Professor William F. Harris, Harvard University; Professor Adeline B. Hawes, Wellesley College; Professor Henry W. Haynes, Boston; Professor John H. Hewitt, Williams College; Mr. B. H. Hill, Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Professor George E. Howes, University of Vermont; Mr. Ernest Jackson, Boston; Miss Margaret Jackson, Auburndale; Miss Alicia M. Keyes, Concord; Miss Helen F. Kimball, Brookline; Professor John C. Kirtland, Jr., Phillips Exeter Academy; Mr. Gardiner M. Lane, Boston; Professor George Dana Lord, Dartmouth College; Professor John K. Lord, Dartmouth College; Professor David G. Lyon,

Harvard University; Mr. Albert M. Lythgoe, Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard University; Dr. E. von Mach, Cambridge; Professor H. W. Magoun, Cambridge; Miss Ellen F. Mason, Boston; Professor Clifford H. Moore, Harvard University; Professor George F. Moore, Harvard University; Mrs. John H. Morison, Boston; Miss Frances R. Morse, Boston; Dr. Charles Peabody, Harvard University; Mr. M. S. Prichard, Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Professor F. W. Putnam, Harvard University; Miss Ellen D. Putnam, Boston; Rev. James Reed, Boston; Mr. Edward Robinson, Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Mrs. Sara P. Rohde, Boston; Miss Theodora Sedgwick, Cambridge; Professor J. B. Sewall, Brookline; Miss Anna D. Slocum, Jamaica Plain; Mrs. W. E. Stone, Cambridge; Miss Harriet S. Tolman, Boston; Professor C. H. Toy, Harvard University; Professor Henry M. Tyler, Smith College; Professor Charles St. Clair Wade, Tufts College; Professor Alice Walton, Wellesley College; Miss Mary Lee Ware, Boston; Professor John Williams White, Harvard University; Mrs. E. F. Williams, Boston; Rev. Dr. W. C. Winslow, Boston; Professor F. E. Woodruff, Bowdoin College; Rev. Dr. Theodore F. Wright, Cambridge.

Of the Chicago Society:

Mr. Allison V. Armour, New York City.

Of the Cleveland Society:

Professor Harold N. Fowler, Western Reserve University; Professor Samuel Ball Platner, Western Reserve University.

Of the Connecticut Society:

Professor Frank C. Babbitt, Trinity College; Mr. William L. Cushing, Westminster School, Simsbury; Professor George D. Kellogg, Williams College; Professor James M. Paton, Wesleyan University; Professor Lewis B. Paton, Hartford; Professor Tracy Peck, Yale University; Professor Louise F. Randolph, Mt. Holyoke College; Professor H. M. Reynolds, Yale University; Miss Elizabeth H. Rockwell, Winsted; Professor Helen M. Searles, Mt. Holyoke College; Professor Thomas Day Seymour, Yale University; Professor H. De F. Smith, Amherst College; Professor Charles C. Torrey, Yale University; Dr. Charles H. Weller, Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven; Miss Mary C. Welles, Newington; Professor Mary Gilmore Williams, Mt. Holyoke College.

Of the Detroit Society:

Professor Francis W. Kelsey, University of Michigan.