The AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHEOLOGY AND OF THE HISTORY OF THE FINE ARTS is the official organ of the ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA and will aim at furthering the interests for which the Institute was founded.

THE EDITORIAL STAFF

So far as at present formed consists of

Advisory Editor: Prof. CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, of Harvard College. Managing Editor: Dr. A. L. FROTHINGHAM, Jr., of Johns Hopkins University.

Special Editors: Dr. ALFRED EMERSON, of Johns Hopkins University; Mr. T. W. LUDLOW, of New York; Prof. ALLAN MARQUAND, of Princeton College; Mr. A. R. MARSH, of Harvard College; Mr. CHARLES C. PERKINS, of Boston; Dr. CHARLES WALDSTEIN, of Cambridge University, England; Mr. JUSTIN WINSOR, of Harvard College.

The departments of Pre-historic and American Archæology, not having been yet fully organized, could not be represented in this number; but this omission will be repaired in the next issue. Mr. JUSTIN WINSOR, librarian of Harvard College Library, has consented to undertake the supervision of the American department, in connection with Lieutenant WM. H. DALL, U. S. N.

The regular foreign correspondence will begin with the next number. The following is a list of some of the writers who have promised to contribute to the pages of the Journal.

UNITED STATES.

Dr. FRANCIS BROWN,
Mr. JOSEPH T. CLARKE,
Prof. WM. W. GOODWIN,
Mr. Wм. H. GOODYEAR,
Dr. ISAAC H. HALL,

Prof. J. RENDEL HARRIS,

EUROPE.

Prof. PAUL HAUPT,
Prof. C. R. LANMAN,
Prof. A. C. MERRIAM,
Mr. W. J. STILLMAN,
Mr. RUSSELL STURGIS,
Prof. JOHN W. WHITE.

M. ERNEST BABELON, attaché at the Cabinet des médailles, National Library, Paris.

Prof. ORAZIO MARUCCHI, member of Comm. Arch. Comm. of Rome, etc. M. EMILE MOLINIER, attaché at the Museum of the Louvre.

M. EUGÈNE MÜNTZ, Librarian and Conservateur of the École des

Beaux-Arts, Paris.

Comm. Gro. BATT. DE ROSSI, Director of the Vatican and Lateran Museums, of the Catacombs, etc., Rome, Italy.

Sig. ENRICO STEVENSON, member of the Communal Archaeological Commission of Rome, etc.

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The AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHEOLOGY AND OF THE HISTORY OF THE FINE ARTS is the official organ of the ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA, and will aim to further the interests for which the Institute was founded.

Advisory Editor: Prof. CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, of Harvard College. Managing Editor: Dr. A. L. FROTHINGHAM, Jr., of Johns Hopkins University.

Editorial Contributors: Mr. T. W. LUDLOW, of New York; Prof. A. MARQUAND, of Princeton College; Mr. A. R. MARSH, of Harvard College; Prof. A. C. MERRIAM, of Columbia College; Mr. C. C. PERKINS, of Boston; Dr. CHARLES WALDSTEIN, of Cambridge University, England; Mr. JUSTIN WINSOR, of Harvard College. The following writers have contributed or promised early contributions:

Dr. FRANCIS BROWN,
Mr. LUCIEN CARR,
Mr. JOSEPH T. CLARKE,
Mr. W. H. DALL,
Dr. ALFRED EMERSON,

UNITED STATES.

Dr. HAROLD N. FOWLER, Mr. W. H. HOLMES,
Mr. F. B. GODDARD,
Mr. Wм. H. GOODYEAR,
Miss I. F. HAPGOOD,
Mr. H. W. HENSHAW,
EUROPÉ.

Mr. W. P. P. LONGFELLOW,

Mr. RUSSELL STURGIS,
Prof. CYRUS THOMAS,
Dr. W. HAYES WARD, etc.

M. E. BABELON, attaché au Cabinet des Médailles, National Library, Paris.
Dr. A. A. CARUANA, Librarian of the public Library, Malta.

L'Abbé L. DUCHESNE, Professor of Christian Archæology, Catholic Institute, Paris.
Prof. W. HELBIG, Secretary of the German Archæological Institute, Rome.
Prof. HANS HILDEBRAND, Director of the Museums, ed. of Tidskrift, etc., Stockholm.
Dr. F.-X. KRAUS, Professor at the University of Freiburg-im-Breisgau.
Dr. SPYRIDION P. LAMBROS, of Athens, Greece.

Comte de MARSY, Director of the Soc. Franc. d'Archéologie, Bulletin Monumental, etc.
Prof. ORAZIO MARUCCHI, member of Comm. Archæol. Commission of Rome, etc.
M. JOACHIM MÉNANT, of Rouen, France.

Prof. ADOLPH MICHAELIS, of the University of Strassburg.

M. EMILE MOLINIER, attaché au Musée du Louvre, Paris.
M. EUGÈNE MÜNTZ, Librarian and Conservator of the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
Prof. FRANZ PIPER, Professor of Christian Archæology in the University of Berlin.
Mr. W. M. RAMSAY, Professor of Archæology in the University of Oxford, England.
Dr. FRANZ V. REBER, Professor in the University and Polytechnic of Munich, etc.
M. SALOMON REINACH, former member of the French School at Athens.
Comm. GIO. BATT. DE ROSSI, Director of the Vatican and Lateran Museums, Rome.
Dr. THEODOR SCHREIBER, Professor of Archæology in the University of Leipzig.
Mr. ROBERT SEWELL, former Archæological Surveyor of Southern India.
Sig. ENRICO STEVENSON, member of the Comm. Archæol. Commission of Rome, etc.
M. F. TRAWINSKI, sous-chef à la Direction des Beaux-Arts, Paris.

Hon. JOHN WORTHINGTON, U. S. Consul at Malta.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I, 1885.

No. I. JANUARY.

I. The first American classical Archæologist, by CHARLES ELIOT NORTON,
II.-The Panathenaic festival and the central slab of the Parthenon frieze,
by CHARLES WALDSTEIN,

III.-Inscribed sepulchral vases from Alexandria (plate 1), by A. C. MERRIAM,
Iv.-The Revival of Sculpture in Europe in the thirteenth century (plates II.,
III.),
by A. L. FROTHINGHAM, JR.,
v.-Ancient crude-brick construction and its influence on the Doric Style,
by ARTHUR R. MARSH,

MISCELLANIES:

Arnolfo di Lapo and Jacopo Torriti at Rome,
Certificate of decease of Antonio da San Gallo,

REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS:

Wright, The Empire of the Hittites,

Reinach, Manuel de Philologie Classique, .

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SUMMARIES OF PERIODICALS:

Gazette Archéologique-Revue Archéologique-Archäologische ZeitungMittheilungen d. Deutschen Institutes-Bullettino della Commis. Archeologica Com. di Roma, .

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NEWS DEPARTMENT:

ASIA (Cyprus, Arabia, Asia-Minor); AFRICA (Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria);
EUROPE (Greece, Italy, France),

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Nos. 2 and 3. APRIL-JULY.

1.- The Aboriginal relics called "sinkers" or "plummets" (plate IV.),

II. The lost Mosaics of Ravenna,

by HENRY W. HENSHAW, 105 by EUGÈNE MÜNTZ, 115

III.-The Abbey of Jumiéges and the legend of the Énervés,