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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE

Extract from the letter addressed bythe Founders to their Trustees, datedNewark, New Jersey, June 6, r930

"It is fundamental in our purpose, and our express desire,that in the appointments to the staff and faculty, as well asin the admission of workers and students, no account shall betaken, directly or indirectly, of race, religion, or sex . We feelstrongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest,above all, the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of anyconditions as to personnel other than those designed to pro-mote the objects for which this institution is established, andparticularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race,creed, or sex."

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ivTrustees

Officers of the Board of Trustees

and Standing Committees vi

Staff of the Instituteviii

Calendar, 1938-1939

x

Members, 1937-1938 ' ' .'

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I History and Organization

II School of Mathematics

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I1I School of Economics and Politics 1 3

I\' School of Humanistic Studies 15

1' Applications. . . .

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1941

ALEXIS CARREL

New York, New York

JULIUS FRIEDENWALD

Baltimore, Maryland

LEWIS H . WEED

Baltimore, Maryland

1942

JOHN R. HARDIN

Newark, New Jersey

SAMUEL D . LEIDESDORF

New York, New York

WALTER W . STEWART

New York, New York

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LIFE TRUSTEESLOUIS BAMBERGER

South Orange, New Jersey

MRS . FELIX FULD

South Orange, New Jersey

TRUSTEESTerms Expire

1938

EDGAR S . BAMBERGER

West Orange, New Jersey

ALANSON B . HOUGHTON

Washington, District of Columbia

HERBERT H . MAASS

New York, New York

1 939FRANK AYDELOTTE

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

FLORENCE R . SABINNew York, New York

OSWALD VEBLENPrinceton, New Jersey

1940

ABRAHAM FLEXNER


WINFIELD W. RIEFLER


PERCY S. STRAUS

New York, New York

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OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEESC hatrman : ALANSON B . HOUGHTON

VZCe-Chatrman : HERBERT H . MAASS

Vice-Chairman : WALTER W . STEWART

Treasurer : SAMUEL D . LEIDESDORF

Assistant Treasurer : IRA A. SCHUR

Selretary : ESTHER S. BAILEY

STANDING COMMITTEES OF THEBOARD OF TRUSTEES

MR. LOUIS BAMBERGER, MRS . FULD, the Chairman andVice-Chairmen are members of all cammittees.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEMR. WEED, Chairman

MR. EDGAR S . BAMBERGER

MR . LEIDESDORF

MISS SABIN

THE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE

FINANCE COMMITTEEMR. HARDIN, Chairman

MR. LOUIS BAMBERGER

MR. LEIDESDORF

MR. MAASS

MR. RIEFLER

BUDGET COMMITTEEMR . WEED, Chairman

MR. AYDELOTTE

MR. STEWART

THE TREASURER


COMMITTEE ON BUILDINGS ANDGROUNDS

MR. MAASS, Chairman

MR. AYDELOTTE

MR . VEBLEN


COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONSMR. AYDELOTTE, Chairman

MR. FRIEDENWALD

MR. STRAUS

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STAFF OF THE INSTITUTEDirector: ABRAHAM FLEXNER

SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS

Professors

JAMES WADDELL ALEXANDERALBERT EINSTEIN

MARSTON MORSE

OSWALD VEBLENJOHN VON NEUMANN

HERMANN WEYL

Associate

WALTHER MAYER

Assistan ts

PETER G. BERGMANN

HERBERT BUSEMANN

JOHN W . CALKIN

ALFRED H. CLIFFORD

IVIORRIS KLINE

RUFUS OLDENBURGER

L . ROY WILCOX

SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICS

ProfessorsEDWARD MEAD EARLE

DAVID !VIITRANY

WINFIELD W. RIEFLER

SCHOOL OF HUMANISTIC STUDIES

ProfessorsHETTY GOLDMAN

ERNST HERZFELD

E. A. LOWE

BENJAMIN D . MERITT

ERWIN PANOFSKY

Visiting Pro f essor

EDWARD CAPPS

Field Mediaevalist

KURT WEITZMANN

Field Archaeologist*WILLIAM ALEXANDER CAMPBELL

AssistantW. KENDRICK PRITCHETT

GEST ORIENTAL LIBRARY

CuratorNANCY LEE SWANN

•Through the courtesy of Wrllesley College, Professor Campbell will conductfield work at Antioch for ohe next five successive seasons in behalf of the Institute.

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CALENDAR

1 938- 1 939

October I : First term opens

December 17 : First term closesJanuary 17 : Second term opens

May

Second term closes

MEMBERS, 1937-1938

VALENTIN BARGMANN, Ph.D., University of Ziirich, 1936

MIRIAM F . BECKER, Ph.D., Yale University, 1934

HERBERT BUSEMANN, Ph.D., University of Gdttingen, 1931

GLANVILLE DOWNEY, Ph.D., Princeton University, 1 934Curator, Epigraphical Museum, Princeton University

RICHARD ETTINGHAUSEN, Ph.D., University of Frankfurt amMain, 1931

*EUGENE FEENBERG, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1 933*GEORGE H . FORSYTH, JR ., M .F.A. in Architecture, Princeton

University, 1927Assistant Professor, Princeton University

HAROLD W . GLIDDEN, Ph.D., Princeton University, 1937

JACOB HAMMER, Ph.D., Columbia University, I925Associate Professor, Hunter College

"ERICH HECKE, Ph .D., University of GBttingen, 1910

Professor, University of Hamburg

*VACLAV HLAVAT, Ph.D., Charles University, Prague, 1921Professor, Charles University, Prague

WITOLD HUREWICZ, Ph.D ., University of Vienna, 1926Privatdozent, University of Amsterdam

LEOPOLD INFELD, Ph.D ., University of Cracow, 1921Privatdozent, University of Lw ōw

MARIE M . JOHNSON, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1928Assistant Professor, Oberlin College

EDWARD J . JURJI, Ph.D., Princeton University, 1936

PIERCE W . KETCHUM, Ph.D ., University of Illinois, 1926Associate, University of Illinois

*First term'"•Second 2erm

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HARRY LEVY, Ph .D., Princeton University, 1924Assistant Professor, University of Illinois

CYRUS C. MACDUFFEE, Ph .D., University of Chicago, 1921Professor, University of Wisconsin

**ALPHEUS THOMAS MASON, Ph .D., Princeton University,1923

Professor, Princeton University

*NEAL H . McCoy, Ph .D., State University of Iowa, 1929Associate Professor, Smith College

MALCOLM F . MCGREGOR, Ph .D., University of Cincinnati,

1 937Instructor, University of Cincinnati

CHARLES B . MORREY, JR ., Ph .D., Harvard University, 1931Assistant Professor, University of California

ANTHONY P. MORSE, Ph .D., Brown University, 1937

TADASI NAKAYAMA, Rigakushi, Tokyo Imperial University,

1 935Assistant Professor, Osaka Imperial University

CECIL J . NESBITT, Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1937

MAXWELL H . A. NEWMAN, M.A., St. John's College, Cam-bridge, 1923

Fellow of St . John 's College, Cambridge, and CambridgeUniversity Lecturer

RUFUS OLDENBURGER, Ph .D., University of Chicago, 1 934Assistant Professor, Armour Institute of Technology

JOHN F. RANDOLPH, Ph .D., Cornell University 1934

MOSES RICHARDSON, Ph .D., Columbia University, 1936Tutor, Brooklyn College

HYMAN SERBIN, Ph .D., University of Pittsburgh, 1937

MALCOLM F. SMILEY, Ph .D., University of Chicago, 1937

FRANK SMITHIES, Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1 937

RICHARD F . S . STARR, B .S ., Cornell University, 1924

RICHARD STILLWELL, M .F .A. in Architecture, Princeton Uni-

versity, 1924Assistant Professor, Princeton University

HANNS SWARZENSKI, Dr . Phil ., University of Bonn, 1927

CHARLES B. TOMPKINS II, Ph .D., University of Michigan,

1936National Research Council Fellow

H. T. WADE-GERY (M .C.), M .A., New College, Oxford,

1919Fellow of Wadham College

HUBERT S . WALL, Ph .D., University of Wisconsin, 1927

Associate Professor, Northwestern University

DONALD N. WILBER, M.F.A. in Architecture, Princeton Uni-

versity, 1 933

AUREL WINTNER, Ph .D., University of Leipzig, 1928

Associate Professor, The Johns Hopkins University

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I

HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION

Fox more than half a century preceding the out-break of the World War in 1914 American scholarsand scientists, who for the most part had already re-ceived a Ph.D. degree at Harvard, Johns Hopkins,Chicago, or elsewhere, and who desired further andusually informal opportunities for research under thedirection of a great master, generally resorted to aforeign university.

Meanwhile, however, progress in provision foradvanced study beyond the graduate school had beentaking place in America . The leading American uni-versities in addition to offering abundant opportu-nities for those desiring to obtain the Ph.D. degreehave during the last generation steadily increasedtheir facilities for advanced work on the part of com-petent and well trained individuals . The RockefellerFoundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York,and the Commonwealth Fund had been makinggrants which enabled young men, who had alreadyattained the Ph.D. degree, to work under first-ratescholars and scientists in American universities quiteindependently of the ordinary routine of the grad-uate school.

In 1930 an additional step forward was takenwhen Mr. Louis Bamberger and his sister, Mrs.Felix Fuld, decided to establish an institute for ad-vanced study—an institute, which was entirely free

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from all degree-giving obligations and which wasdesigned to offer informal opportunities, withoutroutine, to a carefully chosen faculty of distinguishedscholars who would surround themselves with agroup of selected younger men, who had givenpromise of scholarly and scientific development . TheInstitute discarded both undergraduate and graduatedepartments on the ground that these already existedin abundance ; the real need was felt to lie in the fieldbeyond the graduate school . The Trustees andFaculty of Princeton University welcomed the In-stitute to Princeton and have most generously madeavailable to its staff and members all the resourcesin faculty, libraries, and other facilities which theUniversity possesses for advanced work . Nothingcould exceed in cordiality and mutual helpfulnessthe relationships established between the Universityand the Institute during the last five years.

Helpful gifts have been made for specific purposesas follows : the Rockefeller Foundation has con-tributed half the cost of the great Gest OrientalLibrary ; the Carnegie Corporation of New York hascontributed the funds which maintain in Princetona number of distinguished and promising scholars;the Carnegie Institution of Washington has con-tinued its coōperation in the field of Latin palaeo-graphy ; and the Emergency Committee in Aid ofDisplaced German Scholars has enabled the Instituteto add to its faculty a highly distinguished scholarin the field of Islamic art.

Meanwhile, the Founders have also increased the

capital funds of the Institute so that in addition tothe School of Mathematics, which was opened in

1 933, the School of Humanistic Studies and theSchool of Economics and Politics were begun in

1 935 .In order that the ideals of the Founders might

be realized, the organization and administration ofthe Institute have been kept simple and unostenta-tious, and the several schools are in their internalconduct as nearly autonomous as possible. Coōpera-tion with the corresponding authorities of PrincetonUniversity and with the director has proved to beeasy and informal . The Board of Trustees is com-posed of laymen, scholars, and scientists . It is hopedthat in this way perfect accord may be establishedbetween the administrative officers and the scholarswho really constitute an institution of learning . Thescale of salaries and retiring allowances is such thatthe teaching staff is freed from financial concern andfeels under the strongest obligation to refrain fromactivities that bring a financial return without reallybeing of high scientific or scholarly character—inother words, that the members of the staff may liveup to the standard that has been created in the full-time departments of certain medical schools organ-ized within recent years. In order to avoid difficultiesand evils that have developed in institutions whereboth full-time and part-time arrangements are em-ployed, the Institute is pledged to its Founders toadhere strictly to the full-time basis . In practice,higher education in America has proved beyond ques-


tion that, though under unusual circumstances some-thing worth while may be accomplished by part-timeworkers, the two cannot be harmoniously combinedand that, wherever the effort is made, part-timearrangements tend to encroach upon the full-timeprinciple . Administration and organization are there-fore greatly simplified, nice problems of adjustmentare eliminated, and undivided attention to its funda-mental purpose is secured by simple adherence to theprinciple of full-time work, and this is equally ap-plicable to those who come as members for a year ormore and to those who have continuingappointments.

The university instructors and professors on leaveof absence have acted in close coōperation with theregular staff of the Institute to the mutual advantageof both groups . While the persons who are advancedscholars may profit by seminars or lecture courseswhich bring them in touch with the latest advancesin the various branches of their science, equally im-portant is the opportunity for informal and frequentcontact with other investigators with whom they ex-change ideas regarding the problems or fields inwhich they are interested . They make their own indi-vidual arrangements from time to time . No two per-sons have ever pursued the same course of action . Thegroup contains members, several of whom conductseminars or meet in conference on various subjects.There is in addition a steady stream of young menwho have already given evidence of unusual talent.

It is diflicult to overestimate the importance of ayear or two spent in free research and study under


the conditions which prevail in the Institute . The in-teraction between the various groups at Princetoncreates an intellectual atmosphere that is highlystimulating both to the members of the permanentstaff and to those who come to Princeton for a moreor less limited period . Thus, while the Institute andPrinceton University are organically and administra-tively entirely distinct, the faculties and students ofthe two institutions co ōperate in any direction thatpromises more favorable results than either institu-tion could obtain alone, the students availing them-selves of the courses, seminars, and opportunitiesfor conference and direction of work in both insti-tutions. This cociperation between the Universityand the Institute is so close that the students andmembers of the two institutions mingle most freely,and each institution thus enjoys every opportunityprovided by the other.

The following lists indicate the wide geographicalrange from within which scholars and scientists haveresorted to the Institute for purposes of study andresearch during its earliest years:

United States

Foreignof Aynerica

CountriesCalifornia

AustraliaConnecticut

AustriaIllinois

BelgiumIndiana

CanadaIowa

ChinaLouisiana

Czechoslovakia(continued on next page)

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United Statesof America

MarylandMassachusettsMichiganNew JerseyNew YorkNorth CarolinaOhioPennsylvaniaRhode IslandVirginiaWashingtonWisconsin

ForeignCountries

DenmarkEnglandFranceGermanyHollandItalyJapanNorwayPolandRoumaniaScotlandSpainSwitzerland

II

SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS

IN the School of Mathematics work is carried onby individual contact with students, by seminars, bycourses of lectures, and by other methods, each pro-fessor being free to follow whatever plan he prefersand to vary it from year to year. It will be noticedthat the staff consists only of professors and theirassistants and one associate, in this respect differingfrom the faculty of a university which has variedteaching responsibilities. However, as is shown be-low, the work of the permanent staff is amplified bythe activities of the temporary members.

In 1938- i g3g Professor Alexander will continuehis researches in topology. He will lecture from timeto time and will hold informal conferences withstudents.

Professor Einstein will pursue his investigations ingeneral relativity.

Professor Morse will conduct a seminar in thegeneral field of analysis in the large . Among thetopics which may be considered are symbolic andmetric dynamics and variational theory in the largeincluding minimal surface theory.

In 1937-1938 Professor Veblen and Professor vonNeumann have been collaborating in a seminar inwhich the quantum mechanics of composite systemshas been studied . It is proposed to carry on this sem-inar in i 938- i 93g in related topics. Professor vonNeumann has also leetured on logics, probability and



quantum theory. He will lecture in I 938- i 93g onthe same topic or on continuous geometries andhypercomplex number systems.

During i 937- i 938 Professor Weyl conducted aseminar in current literature ; next year he proposesto lecture on number theory.

Professor Mayer has lectured in 1937-1938 ondifferential geometry and topology . During t 938-i 93g he will lecture on either calculus of variationsor topology.

During the year 1937-1938 two courses of lectureswere given by temporary members : one by ProfessorHecke in the second term on Dirichlet series, modularfunctions and quadratic forms, and the other by Pro-fessor Wintner in both terms on infinite convolu-tions, asymptotic distributions and the Riemann zetafunction.

Once a week the Mathematics Club, conducted byPrinceton University and the School of Mathematics,meets . At four thirty every afternoon tea is servedfor both the University and the Institute groups, andprofessors and members thus assemble at theirpleasure. Individual lectures or short courses oflectures are frequently given by the temporary mem-bers of the Mathematics Club or in the seminarsconducted either by the Institute or the Universityor jointly. Among the papers thus presented the fol-lowing may be noted as indicating the scope andvariety of subjects :

Dr. BargmannBombardment of Nuclei by Fast Particles

Dr. BeckerValuation of Fields

Dr. BusemannMetric Spaces with Complete Geodesics

Dr. CalkinSelf-adjoint Boundary Conditions for the La-

placian Operator

Dr . CliffordRepresentations of the Symmetric GroupThe Embedding Problem in General Arithmetic

Dr. FeenbergWigner on the Structure of Nuclei beyond

Oxygen

Professor HlavatyConformal Invariants in Two-Dimensional

SpaceGeneral Algorithms of Conformal Differential

Geometry

Dr. HurewiczThe Dimension of Euclidean SpaceTopological Background of the Fundamental

Theorem of AlgebraTopological Proofs of Some Elementary Theo-

rems on Jacobians and Implicit Functions

Dr. InfeldMotion in General Relativity

Dr. KetchumBounded Groups of Linear TransformationsThe Denjoy-Carleman TheoremThe Helmholtz Space Problem

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Professor LevyConformal Invariants in Two Dimensions

Professor MacDuffeeMatric Methods in Ideal Theory

Professor MorreyAbsolutely Continuous Functions of Several

VariablesConvex Functions of Several VariablesExistence and Differentiability of Solutions of

Minimum Problems for Multiple Integrals

Dr. A. P. MorseNon-differentiable Functions

Professor NakayamaThe Theory of Elementary Divisors of Pseudo-

linear and Semi-linear TransformationsSymmetric AlgebrasThe Regular Representations of Algebras

Dr. NesbittThe Regular Representation of Algebras

Mr. NewmanPeriodic Transformations of SpacesCombinatorial Methods in Plane Point-set

Theory

Professor OldenburgerAhlfors on the Theory of Meromorphic Func-

tionsRepresentations of Polynomials in Several

Variables

Dr. RandolphMcShane on Paramaterization of Saddle Sur-

faces with Application to the Problem ofPlateau

Dr. RichardsonOn Periodic Transformations of Complexes

Dr. SerbinThe Theory of Lattices and Non-commuting

PolynomialsDr. Smiley

Minkowski 's Theorem on Linear Forms

Dr. SmithiesSiegel's Proof of Minkowski's Theorem on Con-

vex BodiesPartially Ordered Function SpacesMilne's Integral Equation and its Generaliza-

tionsDr. Tompkins

The Problem of PlateauConcerning Deformations

Dr. WilcoxModularity in the Theory of Lattices

Professor WintnerCanonical Transformations in the Calculus of

VariationsDiophantine Statistics and Mean Motions

The following guest speakers gave lectures underthe joint auspices of the Institute and the Univer-sity : Professor Emil Artin on quasi-algebraic closedfields ; and on quadratic forms ; Professor Richard


Courant on minimal surfaces ; Professor HaroldHotelling on some differential geometry problems instatistics ; Professor Oystein Ore on structures andthe theory of groups ; Dr. Egbertus R. van Kampenon the theorem of Gauss-Bonnet ; and ProfessorHassler Whitney on multiple integration in mani-folds.

The list of activities of the members of the In-stitute illustrates the important contributions ren-dered annually by those who come to Princeton fora year ; the opportunities offered by the School ofMathematics are thus by no means limited to thoseoffered by the permanent staff. To the statementabove made should also be added the similar resourcesof the Department of Mathematics of PrincetonUniversity. The combined opportunities are opento all qualified workers in both University andInstitute.

The Annals of Mathematics is published by thePrinceton University Press for Princeton Universitywith the co ōperation of the Institute for AdvancedStudy. The editorial board consists of Professor S.Lefschetz and Professor H. F . Bohnenblust of theUniversity, Professor John von Neumann of theInstitute, and ten associate editors from variousinstitutions .

III

SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICS

THE formation of the School of Economics andPolitics of the Institute for Advanced Study wasannounced in January, 1935, and in the followingOctober work was begun.

During the year i 938- i 93g Professor Earle willcontinue his researches dealing with the economicand historical bases of American foreign relations.He will also pursue certain special studies, under-taken during the past year in association with otherscholars, of American military policy in its bearingupon national security.

Professor Mitrany is at present working in thefield of general political theory . The emphasis of hiswork is on the relation between national theory andinternational theory and on the relation betweenforms and methods of government to changing socialfunctions . During the coming academic year he willbe assisted by Dr . J . Rumney, formerly of the Uni-versity of London, and author of Herbert Spencer 's

Sociology : A Study in the History of Social Theory,

etc. Dr. Rumney will work on certain specific appli-cations of Professor Mitrany ' s theoretical work.

Professor Riefler has made two trips to Genevaduring the past year to attend meetings of the Finan-cial Committee of the League of Nations. In Novem-ber, 1937, he served asmember of the Sub-Committeeon Financial Statistics of the League of Nations


charged with the examination of problems arisingout of attempts to measure the flow of savings andformation of capital . In January, 1938, he wasappointed by the Council of the League of Nationsto serve on a special delegation to conduct an inquiryinto measures that might be employed for the pre-vention or mitigation of economic depression . Healso acted from time to time during the past year asconsultant to the Stabilization Fund of the UnitedStates Treasury.

Last year Professor Riefler was chairman of theExploratory Committee on Research into FinancialProblems of the National Bureau of Economic Re-search. The Report of this Committee, which waspublished early in 1937, recommended the inaugura-tion of a comprehensive and continuing program forresearch into financial problems under the auspices ofthe National Bureau of Economic Research in co-ōperation with universities, financial institutions,public agencies, and other research groups. Theserecommendations have been adopted, and the pro-gram was inaugurated in the early months of 1938 .

IV

SCHOOL OF HUMANISTIC STUDIES

THE School of Humanistic Studies was started in1935 with Professor Meritt and Professor Panofsky.In 1936-1937 the staff was enlarged by the appoint-ment of Miss Goldman, Professor Herzfeld, andProfessor Lowe, with Professor Capps as visitingprofessor. In 1937-1938 Dr . Kurt Weitzmann wasmade field mediaevalist, and through the courtesyof Wellesley College Professor William AlexanderCampbell became associated with the Institute, fora period of six years, as field archaeologist in chargeof the excavation of Antioch.

In January, 1938, Miss Goldman completed amanuscript dealing with classical material fromGreece. She will conduct excavations at Tarsus inTurkey from the end of February through July andin the autumn will continue preparations for thepublication of material relating to the terracottafigurines and the prehistoric material of Tarsus.

Professor Herzfeld has completed a volume onold Persian inscriptions and is at present preparingfor publication the last volumes on the Samarraexcavations . During 1938- i 939 he will be assistedby Dr. George C. Miles, who will work with him onMohammedan epigraphy, and in particular onArabicinscriptions collected in Syria and Iran.

In 1938-1939 Dr. Ettinghausen will continue hisseminars on book illumination and Islamic painting,

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which have this year been attended by both graduatestudents of the University and members of the Insti-tute . He will also pursue his own studies of NearEastern ceramics and painting of the Islamic period.

The acquisition of the Gest Oriental Librarymakes possible wider co ōperation with the Depart-ment of Oriental Studies of Princeton University,which in conjunction with the Department of Artand Archaeology offers a program of study in thefield of Islamic archaeology . Students are free to fol-low a selective scheme combining fields representedby these two departments of the University and in-cluding the facilities provided by the School of Hu-manistic Studies of the Institute.

In 1937-1938 Professor Lowe has given an in-troductory course in Latin palaeography and aseminar for advanced students on palaeographicalproblems and the transmission of Latin texts, withspecial reference to manuscripts of Livy and Seneca.Heproposes to give similar courses in 1939 . He hasalso continued his work in Italian libraries in prepa-ration of Volumes Three and Four of Codices LatiniAntiquiores . The facsimile material required for theillustration of Volume Three is now almost complete,and it was possible during his stay in Oxford to pre-pare and submit to the Clarendon Press a dummy toserve as guide for the series of collotype plates . It ishoped that Volume Three will appear towards theend of 1938.

Professor Meritt completed in 1937 a study ofseveral inscriptions concerning the tribute of the

Athenian Empire and published the results under theauspices of the American School of Classical Studiesat Athens in a volume entitled Documents on Athen-

ian Tribute. This work was preliminary to the moreextensive publication in folio of the Records of

Athenian Tribute, a task on which he is still engagedwith the assistance and collaborationof Mr . Malcolm

F. McGregor of the University of Cincinnati andMr. H. T. Wade-Gery of Wadham College, Oxford,both of whom have been in residence at Princetonduring the year 1937-1938 . The manuscript of thefirst volume of this larger work is now almost com-pleted, and the volume should appear during thesummer of 1938 . In the meantime, the same authorshave begun the preparation of the second and con-cluding volume, which Professor Meritt expects tobring to completion in the early part of the summerof 1939 when he will spend some weeks on the finalrevision with Mr . Wade-Gery in Oxford.

The epigraphical collection of the Institute is be-ing constantly augmented by the acquisition of newmaterial from the American excavations of theancient market-place of Athens. Professor Merittcontinues his study of these new documents and re-ports upon them from time to time in the journalHesperia . One report has just been published, and asecond report will appear in the autumn of 1938.The Institute has also acquired during the past yeara considerable collection of "squeezes" from theBritish Museum, and further additions will be made

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during the coming year from London and Paris aswell as from Athens.

During the academic year 1938-1939 Mr . Johan-nis Threpsiades, a member of the Greek NationalArchaeological Service, will be in residence at theInstitute . He and Professor Meritt will study to-gether the inscriptions from Eleusis, where for someyears Mr. Threpsiades has been the assistant of theexcavator, Mr. K. Kourouniotes. Mr. Threpsiades isbringing to the Institute a complete collection of"squeezes" of the inscriptions of Eleusis.

In September, 1938, Professor Meritt, represent-ing the General Committee from the United States,will attend the meetings of the first InternationalEpigraphical Congress, which are to be held in Am-sterdam ; he will return in time to offer a seminar inAthenian inscriptions to interested advanced studentsof the Institute and of Princeton University.

Professor Capps will be occupied largely withproblems of the texts and interpretation of classicalauthors of the second century of this era and in thisfield or in either the Old Comedy or the New Comedywill direct the studies of qualified advanced students.

Professor Panofsky has during the current yearcompleted his studies in the secular iconography ofthe Renaissance and has dealt with this subject inthe Mary Flexner Lectures, delivered at Bryn MawrCollege and subsequently, with the kind permissionof President Marion Edwards Park, repeated atPrinceton. The results, which have not yet beenpublished in periodicals, will appear in book form in

the autumn of 1938 . During the second term of theacademic year he has given a course of lectures onMichelangelo for advanced students. An article onthe Reconstruction of the Tomb of Pope Julius 11 byMichelangelo is in print . Along with these and otherstudies he pursued his investigation of early Dutchand Flemish book illuminations, which will be thesubject of a seminar in 1938-1939 . It is hoped thatthe results will be ready for publication by Christmasof 1938.

Dr. Swarzenski has pursued his studies of a groupof Carolingian manuscripts, of the Weingartenmanuscripts, and of Nicolas de Verdun . He hasgreatly increased his material by visiting manymuseums and libraries in Italy, France, Austria, Bel-gium, and Russia ; in the last-named country he dis-covered the missing half of the Weingarten manu-script now in the New York Public Library . He hasbrought to Princeton about a thousand unpublishedphotographs pertinent to his researches, which havealready thrown light on several important problems.In addition, he has assisted Professor Panofsky inhis work.

Dr. Weitzmann continued hiswork on theprepara-tion of the volume concerning the pictures of theOctateuch, which will be the first section of thecorpus of illustrations of the Septuagint . A part ofthe summer was devoted to work on the fragments ofthe Cotton Genesis in the British Museum . Theywere photographed completely for the first time, andfrom these photographs Dr . Weitzmann is able to


reconstitute the famous volume . As part of theOctateuch work he is also preparing a special studyon the problem of the roll and codex, particularlyas it affects the pictures of the Joshua Roll . Inthe spring he gave a series of lectures on the evolutionof East Christian style as part of the seminar onillustrations in manuscripts, conducted by ProfessorA. M. Friend, Jr., of Princeton University, in whichgraduate students of the University and members ofthe Institute both participated . In the autumn theselectures were repeated wi-th additions .

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APPLICATIONS

APPLICATIONS for admission should be addressedto the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NewJersey.

The Trustees have set aside a sum which may beused for stipends to persons of distinct ability andpromise who require a limited amount of financialaid.

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