Second Annual Report of the Executive Committee, 1880-81 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...Mr. Clarke gives us reason to hope that the labors of the expedition which he has directed will be recorded in a complete volume on Assos and the Southern Troad. It will be looked for with keen interest by those who have read his admirable report, and most of all by those who have also seen the works in progress on the spot. They alone can fully appreciate the energy, resource, and self-denial which, under circumstances of much difficulty and discouragement, have enabled manifold ability to reap its reward. The Archaeological Institute of America may well feel gratified by the result of an enterprise commenced under its auspices. It is Mr. Clarke's intention to continue excavating this year for as long as his firman permits. Though Assos is only two degrees north of Olympia, the digging season has to be reversed. In the climate of the Troad, it begins with April and ends with October. Bound homeward, we parted from our friends at Assos, and crossed in an open sail-boat to its mother city in Lesbos, Methymna, --now Molivo, --with a castle on a headland: the passage was made in about three hours and a half; thence the steamer took us, by Mitylene, to Smyrna. ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA. SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS. SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS. TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: Gentlemen, --In the year that has passed since the Committee had the honor to offer its first Report, the plan of organization of the School of Classical Studies there presented has been successfully carried into execution. The School has been established in Athens, and has passed through the critical period of the...