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THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY

(Founded by Louis Bamberger and Mrs . Felix Fuld)

PRINTED BYZ'H$ PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY

BULLETIN NO. 6

THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY

20 Nassau Street

Princeton, New Jersey

February, 1937

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Extract from the letter addressed bythe Founders to their Trustees, datedNewark, New Jersey, June 6,193o

" 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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Trustees iv

Officers of the Board of Trustees

and Standing Committees vi

viiiStaff of the Institute viiL

Calendar, 1937-1938x

Members, 1936-1937xi

I History and Organization

11 School of Mathematics 8

1I1 School of Economics and Politics 11

IV School of Humanistic Studies 13

V Applications 17

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!SiLEXIS CARRELNew York, New York

JULIUS FRIEDENWALD

Baltimore, Maryland

LEWIS H . WEED

Baltimore, Maryland

1 940ABRAHAM FLEXNER


WINFIELD W . RIEFLER


PERCY S . STRAUS

New York, New York

1941

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LIFE TRUSTEESLOUIS BAMBERGER

South Orange, New Jersey

MRS . FELIx FuLD

South Orange, New Jersey

TRUSTEESTerms Expire

1 937JOHN R . HARDIN

Newark, New Jersey

SAMUEL D . LEIDESDORFNew York, New York

WALTER W . STEWART

New York, New York

1938EDGAR 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. SABIN

New York, New York

OSWALD VEBLEN


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FINANCE COMMITTEE

MR. HARDIN, Chairman

MR . LOUIS BAMBERGER

MR. LEIDESDORF

MR. MAASS

MR. RIEFLER

COMMITTEE ON BUILDINGS AND

GROUNDSMR. MAASS, Chairman

MR. AYDELOTTE

MR. VEBLEN

THE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE

COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS

MR . AYDELOTTE, Chairman

MR. FRIEDENWALD

MR. STRAUS

OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Chairman : ALANSON B . HOUGHTON

Vice-Chairman : HERBERT H . MAASS

Vice-Chairman : WALTER W . STEWART

Treasurer : SAMUEL D . LEIDESDORF

Assistant Treasurer : IRA A . ScxuR

Selretary : ESTHER S . BAILEY

STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE

BOARD OF TRUSTEESMR. LOUIS BAMBERGER, MRS . FuLD, the Chairman and

Vice-Chairmen are members of all committees.

EXECUTIVE COMM•ITTEE

MR . WEED, Chairman

MR. EDGAR S . BAMBERGER

MR. LEIDESDORF

MISS SABIN

THE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE

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STAFF OF THE INSTITUTE

Director : ABRAHAM FLEXNER

SCHOOL OF NIATHEMATICS

Pro f essars

JAMES WADDELL ALEXANDERALBERT EINSTEINMARSTON MORSEOSWALD VEBLENJOHN VON NEUMANNHERMANN WEYL

Associate

WALTHER MAYER

A ssistants

HERBERT BUSEMANNALFRED H . CLIFFORDWILLIAM L . DUREN, JR.J . WALLACE GIVENS, 1R.MORRIS KLINEL . RoY WILCOX

SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICS

Professors

EDWARD MEAD EARLEDAVID MITRANYWINFIELD W . RIEFLER

SCHOOL OF HUMANISTIC STUDIES

ProfessorsHETTY GOLDMANERNST HERZFELD

L. A . LowEBENJAMIN D . MERITT

ERWIN PANOFSKY

Visiting Pro f essors

EDWARD CAPPS

H. T. WADE-GERY

Field Archaeologist*WILLIAM ALEXANDER CAMPBELL

AssistantW. KENDRICK PRITCHETT

GEST ORIENTAL LIBAARY

CuratorNANCY LEE SWANN

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`Through the courtesy of Wellesley College, Professor Campbell will conductfield work at Antioch for the nezt svz successive seasons in bchalf of the Institute.

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CALENDAR

1 937- 1 93g

October 1 : First term opensDecember 23 : First term closesJanuary 23 : Second term opensMay

1 : Second term closes

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MEMBERS, 1936-1937

y EDWARD S . AKELEY, Ph.D ., University of Chicago, 1927Assistant Professor, Purdue University

REI!dHOLD BAER, Ph.D., University of Gōttingen, 1925JAMES H. BARTLETT, JR., Ph .D., Harvard University, 1930

Assistant Professor, University of IllinoisPETER G . BERGMANN, Dr. rer . nat., German University of

Prague, 1936Loucs P. BOUCKAERT, Dr. Math . and Phys ., Louvain Univer-

sity, 1 934C.R.B. Educational Foundation Fellow

HERBERT BUSEMANN, Ph.D., University of Gō ttingen, 1931STEWART S . CAIRNS, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1931

Assistant Professor, Lehigh University*JOHN F . CARLSON, Ph.D., University of California, 1932PĒI-YiiAx Cxou, Ph .D., California lnstitute of Technology,

1928Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Peiping

GEORGE COMENETZ, Ph.D ., Columbia University, 1 934GI.ANVILLE DOWNEY, Ph .D., Princeton University, 1 934

Curator, Epigraphical Museum, Princeton UniversityDANIEI. M . DRIBIN, Ph .D., University of Chicago, 1936

National Research Council FellowWILLIAM L . DUREN, JR ., Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1930

Assistant Professor, Tulane UniversityEUGENE FEENBERG, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1 933AARON FIALKOW, Ph .D., Columbia University, 1936

National Research Cauncil Fellow**ANTONIO I . FLORES, Dr. Math ., University of Madrid, 1936

Fellow of the Junta de Ampliacion de Estudios' `'*NATHANIEL H . FRANK, Sc .D., Massachusetts Institute of

Technology, 1926Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Tech-

nologyMARSHALI . HALL, Ph.D., Yale University, 1936

`Absent firat term*"Absemt second term

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'`*GODFREY H. HARDY, M .A., Oxford and CambridgeProfessor, Trinity College, Cambridge

WILHELM S . HECKSCHER, Ph.D ., University of Hamburg,1936

BANESH HOFFMANN, Ph.D., Princeton University, 1932INGOMAR M . HOSTETTER, Ph .D., University of Washington,

1 935WITOLD HUREWICZ, Ph.D., University of Vienna, 1926

Privatdozent, University of Amsterdam

LEOPOLD INFELD, Ph .D., University of Cracow, 1921Privatdozent, University of Lw6w

EDWARD J . JURJI, Ph .D., Princeton University, 1936PIERCE W . KETCHUM, Ph .D., University of Illinois, 1926

Associate, University of Illinois

TS_4I-HAN KIANG, Ph .D., Harvard University, 1931Professor, National University of Peking

**TULLIO LEVI-CIVITA, Dr. Math ., University of Padua, 1894Professor, University of Rome

**NORMAN LEVINSON, D.Sc ., Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology, 1935

National Research Council Fellow

**ELTON j . MOULTON, Ph .D., University of Chicago, 1913Professor, Northwestern University

FRANCIS D . MURNAGHAN, Ph .D., Johns Hopkins LTniversity,1916

Professor, Johns Hopkins University-H. C. B . MYNORS, M .A., University of Cambridge, 1929

Principal, Economics and Statistics Section, Bank of Eng-land, London

MELBA N. PHII,LIPS, Ph.D., University of California, 1 933Margaret E. Maltby Fellow (American Association of

University Women)

WALTER PRENOWITZ, Ph.D ., Columbia University, 1936Instructor, Brooklyn College

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MAURICE H. L . PRYCE, B .A., Trinity College, Cambridge,

1 933Commonwealth Fund Fellow

JoxN F . RANDOLPH, Ph.D ., Cornell University, 1 934Instructor, Cornell University

**WILLIAM T . REID, Ph .D., University of Texas, 1929Instructor, University of Chicago

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

**FRANCIS W . ROBINSON, M .F .A., Princeton University, 1 934Assistant Curator, Cincinnati Art Museum

OTTO F. G. SCHILLING, Ph .D., University of Marburg, 1 934

JOHN C . SLATER, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1923Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

FRANK SMITHIES, B .A ., Cambridge University, 1 933Carnegie Fellow, and Baylis Student (St . John ' s College,

Cambridge)

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

*GUNNAR STEENSHOLT, Ph.D., University of Oslo, 1932University of Oslo Research Fellow

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

versity, 1924Assistant Professor, Princeton University

MARTIN H . STOBBE, Ph.D., University of G ō ttingen, 1930

**MARSHALL H . STONE, Ph .D., Harvard University, 1926

Associate Professor, Harvard University

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

E. DONOVAN TAGG, B .A ., Clare College, Cambridge, 1 933Commonwealth Fund Fellow

*"HAROI .D M . TERRILL, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1924

JOSEPH M . THOMAS, Ph .D., University of Pennsylvania, 1923Professor, Duke University

CHARLES P. TOMPKINS II, Ph.D., University of Michigan,1936

National Research Council Fellow

ANDRĒ WEIL, D.Sc ., University of Paris, I929Maitre de confērences, Strasbourg University

KURT WEITZMANN, Dr. Phil ., University of Berlin, I929*JOHN A . WHEELER, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1 933

Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina

DONALD N . WILBER, M .F.A. in Architecture, Princeton Uni-versity, 1 933

RUPERT WILDT, Ph.D., University of Berlin, I927**YUE KEI WONO, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1931

Fellow of Academia Sinica, Nanking

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I

HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION

AivtERTCAN universities now offer abundant facili-ties for study in the liberal arts and sciences leadingto the Ph.D. degree . Some universities have made ex-cellent arrangements also for work beyond the Ph .D.degree, especially in recent years since the organiza -tion of advanced fellowships such as the fellowshipsoffered by the National Research Council, the Rocke-feller Foundation, and the Commonwealth Fund.For a period of perhaps fifty or seventy-five yearspreceding the World War American scholars, someof them still in search of a Ph.D. degree, others whoalready held academic posts, had been in the habitof resorting to European universities, especially thegreat German universities, for the purpose of obtain-ing larger opportunities for work and closer informaland personal contact with distinguished scholars andscientists . Organized postgraduate work in this coun-try practically began with the opening of the JohnsHopkins University in 1876, and of the originalfaculty of arts, science, and medicine almost everymember had been a student in Germany and some ofthem in France and England as well . Signs of a de-cline in the relative importance of Europe were notwanting prior to 1914 . At the same time opportuni-ties in America were increasing, but we have not yetin America reached the level which existed in Europe,especially Germany, prior to 1914 . It has becometherefore a matter of pressing importance that exist-

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ing American universities should develop further op-portunities which will enable gifted individuals topursue their investigations and studies in an informalfashion under the guidance and stimulus of distin-guished men. But this alone does not suffice . It seemedadvisable further to establish or to create in connec-tion, if possible, with a university of high standingan institution whose sole purpose it would be to pro-vide young men and women of unusual gifts andpromise with opportunities to continue their inde-pendent training beyond the Ph.D. degree withoutpressure of numbers or routine. To provide such op-portunities Mr. Louis Bamberger and his sister, Mrs.Felix Fuld, established in 1930 the Institute forAdvanced Study with an initial gift of $5,000,000.The Trustees and Faculty of Princeton Universitywelcomed the Institute to Princeton and have mostgenerously made available to its staff and membersall resources for advanced work which the Univer-sity itself possesses . Since its founding the funds ofthe Institute have been increased to soinething over$8,000,000 . Helpful gifts have been made for spe-cific purposes by the Rockefeller Foundation, theCarnegie Corporation of New York, the CarnegieInstitution of Washington, and the Emergency Com-mittee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars . TheInstitute which began with a School of Mathematicshas now developed two additional schools, the Schoolof Economics and Politics and the School of Human-istic Studies, both begun in 1935•

In order that the ideals of the Founders might berealized, the organization and administration of theInstitute have been kept simple and unostentatious,and the several schools are in their internal conduct asnearly autonomous as possible, though movementfrom school to school takes place spontaneously . Theinternal affairs of the several schools are managed bytheir respective faculties. Coōperation with the corre-sponding authorities of Princeton University andwith the director has proved to be easy and informal.The Board of Trustees is composed of laymen, schol-ars, and scientists . It is hoped that in this way per-fect accord may be established between the adminis-trative officers and the scholars who really constitutean institution of learning. The scale of salaries andretiring allowances is such that the teaching staff isfreed from financial concern and feels under thestrongest obligation to refrain from activities thatbring a financial return without really being of highscientific or scholarly character—in other words, thatthe members of the staff may live up to the standardthat has been created in the full-time departmentsof certain medical schools organized within recentyears. In order to avoid difficulties and evils that havedeveloped in institutions where both full-time andpart-time arrangements are employed, the Instituteis pledged to its Founders to ad'here strictly to thefull-time basis . In practice, higher education in Amer-ica has proved beyond question that, though underunusual circumstances something worth while may beaccomplished by part-time workers, the two cannot



be harmoniously combined and that, wherever theeffort is made, part-time arrangements tend to en-croach upon the full-time principle . Administrationand organization are therefore greatly simplified,nice problerns of adjustment are eliminated, and un-divided attention to its fundamental purpose is se-cured by simple adherence to the principle of full-time work, and this is equally applicable to those whocome as members for a year or more and to those whohave continuing appointments.

The Library of Princeton University offers all itsfacilities to the staff and members of the Institutewhile all books owned by the Institute or membersof its staff are, through a unified card catalogue,accessible to the faculty and advanced students of theUniversity. Among these acquisitions may be men-tioned the great Gest Oriental Library, purchasedduring the summer of 1936 with the aid of the Rocke-feller Foundation from Mr . G. M. Gest of NewYork City, and the rich private collections of Pro-fessor Capps, Professor Herzfeld, Professor Lowe,and Professor Meritt in the field of the humanisticstudies. In recent months the owners of the fainousWarburg Library, now located in London, have pre-sented to rhe Institute a complete catalogue of theworks contained in this magnificent collection . Thiscatalogue is also incorporated in the Princeton Uni-versity card catalogue with notes indicating whetherthe volumes in question are to be found in Princetonor must be borrowed from London .

While the Institute and Princeton University areorganically and administratively entirely distinct,the faculties and students of the two institutions co-operate in any direction that promises more favorableresults than either institution could obtain alone, thestudents availing themselves of the courses, seminars,and opportunities for conference and direction ofwork in both institutions without payment of an addi-tional fee. Advanced workers, such as National Re-search Council Fellows and Commonwealth FundFellows, who have come to Princeton to study witha member of one group, often find it to their interestto confer or work with one or more members of theother group and in that event are accredited to bothinstitutions.

Among the members are a number of universityinstructors and professors on leave of absence . They

have Acted in close coōperation with the regular staffof the Institute to the mutual advantage of bothgroups. While the persons who are thus advancedmay profit by seminars or lecture courses which bringthem in touch with the latest advances in the variousbranches of their science, equally important is theopportunity for informal and frequent contact withother investigators with whom they exchange ideasregarding the problems or fields in which they are

interested . They make their own individual arrange-

ments from time to time. No two persons during theyear 1936-1937 have pursued the same course of

action. The group contains members, several of whomconduct seminars or meet in conference on various



subjects. There is in addition a steady stream of

and members of the two institutions, and each institu-

young men who have already given evidence of un-

tion enjoys every opportunity provided by the other.usual talent.

It is difficult to overestimate the importance of ayear or two spent in free research and study underthe conditions which prevail in the Institute . Theinteraction between the various groups creates anintellectual atmosphere that is highly stimulatingboth to the members of the permanent staff and tothose who come to Princeton for a more or less limitedperiod. Already scholars attached to other institu-tions have found it worth their while to come toPrinceton informally on brief visits during the courseof the year . Sometimes their presence here is limitedto informal conferences . For example, Professor NielsBohr of Copenhagen, Professor Tullio Levi-Civita ofRome, Professor G . H. Hardy of Cambridge, andProfessor George D. Birkhoff of Harvard have vis-ited the Princeton mathematicians for a period rang-ing from a few days to several months . Mr. H . C. B.Mynors, administrative head of the Economics andStatistics Section of the Bank of England, has beensent by the Bank to spend a few months with Pro-fessor Riefler . He has also come to know PrincetonUniversity economists, economists at other Ainericanuniversities, and has studied American financial or-ganizations—the Federal Reserve Board, the TreasuryDepartment, our banking system, etc . The coōpera-tion between the University and the Institute hasbeen so close and so cordial that visitors who havecome here cannot distinguish between the students


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SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICSIN the School of Mathematics work is carried on

by individual contact with students, by seminars, bycourses of lectures, and by other methods, each pro-fessor being free to follow the methods he prefersand to vary them 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.

During the first term Professor Alexander will givea course of lectures on some topic to be announcedlater, probably in the field of analysis situs.

Professor Einstein will continue his investigationsin the relativistic theory of matter.

Professor Morse will conduct a seminar in thegeneral field of analysis in the large. The seminar willbegin with lectures on the variational theory of mul-tiple integrals and will lead to a general topologicaltheory of functional analysis.

In 1936-1937 Professor Veblen and Professor vonNeumann have been collaborating in a seminar inwhich the dhief subjects studied have been generali-zations of projective geometry and the theory ofspinors. It is proposed to continue this seminar ini 937- i 938 in the same field or one of its natural ex-tensions. Professor von Neumann will also lecture onvarious topics in operator theory and in mathematicalquantum theory .

During the first term of the year i 936- i 937 Pro-fessor Weyl finished a course in invariant theorybegun the year before, and the second term was de-voted to the theory of matric rings and its applica-tion to the most important groups in algebra numberfields . In 1937-1938 he proposes to conduct a seminarin current literature where the participants are ex-pected to report on important new mathematicalpapers and on their own research work ; and in addi-tion occasional lectures on selected algebraic topics(Factor Sets, Riemann Matrices) are planned.

Professor Mayer has lectured in 1936-1937 ondifferential geometry and will continue this subjectduring the first term of 1937-1938.

Professor Hardy lectured in the fall term on topicsarising from the work of Ramanujan.

Professor Levi-Civita lectured on the problem ofseveral bodies in general relativity and conductedinformal discussions in the same general field.

Professor Bohr, under the auspices of the Instituteand Princeton University, lectured in February ontransmutations of atomic nuclei and on measurementin atomic physics.

Dr. Baer gave a course of lectures on theory ofgroups and conducted seminars throughout the yearon theory of fields. Professor Frank gave severallectures on conductivity . Dr. Hurewicz lectured ontopology of deformations, Professor Slater on elec-tron theory of metals, Professor Stone on Booleanrings and general topology, and Dr . Wildt on staticsof stellar atmospheres. Professor Murnaghan con-

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ducted informal discussions on applied mathematics,and Professor Andr ē Weil lectured during the secondterm on algebraic functions of one variable . Therehave also been lectures during the year by ProfessorsGeorge D . Birkhoff, Karl Menger, Hans A. Rade-macher, and others.

Once a week the mathematical club, conducted byPrinceton University and the School of Mathematics,meets. A paper is presented, followed by informaldiscussion and questioning. Daily at four thirty inthe afternoon tea is served for both the Universityand the Institute groups, and professors and membersthus assemble at their pleasure.

Since 1911 Princeton University has published theAnnals of Mathematics under the editorial directionof the Department of Mathematics . In 1933 anagreement was entered into in accordance with whichPrinceton University and the Institute for AdvancedStudy jointly publish the Annals . The editorial boardconsists of Professor S . Lefschetz of the University,Professor John von Neumann of the Institute, andten associate editors from various institutions.

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SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICS

THE formation of the School of Economics andPolitics of the Institute for Advanced Study was an-nounced in January, 1935, and in the following Octo-ber work was begun.

During the year i 93 7- t 938 Professor Earle willbe engaged in special studies in the history of Ameri-can foreign relations . His concern will be less withthe technical details of diplomacy and internationallaw than with the interrelation of American and,more especially, European social, political, and cul-tural institutions.

Professor Mitrany is at present working in thefield of general political theory, on a hypothesiswhich would bridge the separation between municipaland international theory and provide a method w'hichwould keep positive studies more closely related tothe varying dimensions and conditions of politicalaction . During the winter Professor Mitrany pub-lished a study on the relation of modern war to gov-ernment entitled "The Effect of the War in South-Eastern Europe" (Yale University Press for the Car-negie Endowment for International Peace).

Professor Riefler has devoted most of his time dur-ing the past year to the preparation of a comprehen-sive national program for research in financial prob-lems. This program, which is being prepared underthe auspices of the National Bureau of Economic Re-search, will require the active participation of all


major agencies for financial research in the country.Professor Riefler is also working actively with theFinance Committee of the League of Nations.

Mr. H. C. B. Mynors, head of the Economics Sec-tion of the Bank of England, spent the winter termat the School of Economics and Politics in a study ofrecent research programs in finance in this country.

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SCHOOL OF HUMANISTIC STUDIES

THE School of Humanistic Studies was started inOctober, 1935 . In the absence of Professor Meritt,who lectured at Oxford and spent some time inAthens, the task of beginning fell to Professor Panof-sky. The staff has been enlarged during the currentyear by the addition of Miss Goldman, ProfessorHerzfeld, Professor Lowe, and Professor EdwardCapps as visiting professor.

Beginning July i, 1937, through the courtesyof Wellesley College, Professor William AlexanderCampbell will be associated with the Institute asfield archaeologist for a period of six years in chargeof the excavation of Antioch.

Miss Goldman will conduct excavations at Tarsusin Turkey from the end of February through July andin the autumn will begin preparations for the publica-tion of material relating to the terracotta figurinesand prehistoric pottery of Tarsus.

Professor Herzfeld brought to Princeton archaeo-logical material collected in the Near East pertainingto its old and mediaeval periods, which he will studyand prepare for publication with the help of five orsix advanced students who form his seminar in Is-lamic archaeology . He plans to emphasize the olderperiods in 1937-1938. The acquisition of the GestOriental Library makes possible wider co ōperationwith the Department of Oriental Studies of Prince-ton University, which in conjunction with the De-


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partment of Art and Archaeology offers a program ofstudy in the field of Islamic archaeology . Studentsare free to follow a selective scheme combining fieldsrepresented by these two departments of the Univer-sity and including the facilities provided by theSchool of Humanistic Studies of the Institute.

The second half of 1936 was spent by ProfessorLowe in Italy revising descriptions with the originalsin front of him and in procuring the rather largenumber of photographs needed for Volumes Threeand Four of Codices Latini Antiquiores now beingprepared for the press . Field work will once more beresumed as soon as it is practicable . During the firstpart of the academic year 1937-1938 Professor Loweplans to give an informal course in Latin palaeog-raphy and a seminar during the latter part for thosewho have had some training in the subject.

Professor Meritt will continue his study of the re-cently discovered inscriptions from the AthenianAgora, reporting upon them from time to time inpublished form in the journal Hesperia and editingthe reports of members of the Agora excavation staffwho make epigraphical studies of the Athenian dis-coveries. In i 937- i g38 he hopes to publish a volume,the manuscript of which is now nearly completed, onthe collectors of the Athenian tribute and relatedproblems. This work is preliminary to the definitivepublication of the Athenian tribute-quota lists andassessment decrees, to the preparation of which hisprincipal effort will be directed with the assistanceand collaboration of Mr . Malcolm McGregor of the

University of Cincinnati and Mr . H . T. Wade-Geryof Wadham College, Oxford, the latter of whom willspend the year at the Institute as visiting professor,supported by a grant made by the Carnegie Corpora-tion of New York . A seminar will be offered, as hasbeen the case during the current year, to interestedadvanced students of Princeton University and theInstitute.

Professor Capps has been in residence since Octo-ber and will be in residence through 1937-1938 . Hiswork will center largely on problems connected withclassical literary history, and he will offer a seminaror informal course to qualified advanced students.

Professor Panofsky has during the current yearconducted with the participation of six advanced stu-dents a seminar on literary sources connected with thehistory of art and has completed his work on Diurer'shlelancholia as well as several articles on Renais-sance iconography and other subjects . In 1937-1938he hopes to coinplete a study of early Dutch andFlemish book-illuminations and their significance forthe development of primitive panel-painting and topursue his iconographical studies.

Dr. Swarzenski has been working on the publica-tion of a group of Carolingian manuscripts to be pub-lished jointly with Professor A. M. Friend, on theedition of the "Weingarten" manuscripts, the mainspecimen of which is in the Morgan Library in NewYork, and on his study of Nicolas de Verdun.

Dr. Weitzmann has just returned from a secondphotographic expedition to Greece and has brought


to Princeton photographs from Mount Athos whichthrow light on the development of Byzantine art andwill be utilized by the Princeton group of art-historians and archaeologists .

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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 mav beused as stipends to persons of distinct ability andpromise who require a limited amount of financialaid.

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