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Professor Hiram Bingham, the Yale archaeologist who conducted the recent successful Peruvian expedition, lectured in New Lecture Hall last evening, under the auspices of the Harvard Anthropological Society...
...trip to Germany, where he studied in three of the leading universities. There, men chose their universities according to the noted professors who delivered lectures. Five of the most distinguished men of Berlin University at this time were Curtius, Helmholz, Mommsen, Grimm, and Zupitza. Curtius was the famous Greek archaeologist, who had made valuable discoveries of classic temples and statues. The speaker described the work of Helmholz, the famous theorist in vibration of sound and light, and came in personal contact with the two greatest lecturers of that day, Mommsen and Grimm. Zupitza, the Anglo-Saxon and Gothic scholar...
...University. Professor F. G. Peabody, the first foreign exchange professor, will talk on "The Harvard Exchange Professor Abroad"; then a speech by Professor Kuehnemann will close the meeting, which is open to members of the University. Among the guests especially invited will be Professor Oscar Montelius, the noted Swedish archaeologist of Stockholm, and Professor E. von Mach of Cambridge, England...
...Curator of the Semitic Museum, in his annual report to the President, first enumerates the important acquisitions to the Museum during the past year. Of unusual interest are three large models of well known Jewish and Egyptian buildings, the work of the German archaeologist, Dr. Contra Schick, which have been placed on exhibition in the Palestinian room and in the hall of the top floor. One, the copy of the Haramesh-Sherif at Jerusalem, which is the result of actual measurements and careful observation, represents the present condition of the plateau where once stood the ancient Temple of Solomon...
...report enumerates important acquisitions of the year, among which have been an original Assyrian inscription from King Assurnazirkal (9th century B. C.) on an elaborate slab about three feet square, and three models made at Jerusalem by Dr. Schick, a German archaeologist, who lived and studied in that city for fifty years. The model of chief value is one of Haramesh-Sherif, nine feet by eleven, and is an exact representation of the mosques and other buildings occupying the site of Solomon's Temple and Palace. The second model, of the same size, is a restoration of the Temple...