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 J. R. SITLINGTON STERRETT 
 
 CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
 ITHACA, NEW YORK 
 
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 Research in Asia Minor and Syria 
 
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ASIA MINOR. 
 
 Archaeologists agree that Asia Minor is the country from 
 which, in the near future, startling, and even dazzling additions 
 to our knowledge of the past will be made. So far as the Hit- 
 tites are concerned these additions will be history itself, for 
 they will actually create the history of humanity just before the 
 beginnings of written history, a past so dim and so distant that 
 even the constitutionally inquisitive Greek knew almost nothing 
 of or about it, though strangely enough, he was its immediate 
 inheritor and passed it on to us. 
 
 But the nearer past also, the historic past, the Phrygian, 
 Hellenic, Hellenistic past, the Graeco-Roman and the Early 
 Christian past in Asia Minor, claims, aye, demands, earnest, im- 
 mediate, and long-continued investigation, not to speak of the 
 Seljukian, the Crusading, and even the Turkish past. 
 
 For the last thirty years a small band of scholars has been 
 eager to collect ancient inscriptions, to study ancient monu- 
 ments, to locate ancient cities and to create the ancient map. 
 But the ancient documents that could be found easily, as the 
 result of leisurely journeys through Asia Minor, have in great 
 measure been garnered already, largely through. the efforts of 
 Sir William M. Ramsay and other travellers trained by him in 
 surface research, one of whom is the present writer and peti- 
 tioner. But what still remains to be done is of infinitely greater 
 importance than that which has already been accomplished. 
 Witness the discovery of the documentary proof that Boghaz- 
 kieui was really the capital of the Hittite empire, a thing long 
 suspected it is true, but never proved till now, for none could 
 get the proof till now. And yet there was that precious docu- 
 ment, extant, actually extant, but lying beneath the ground, 
 where it had lain for maybe three millennia, waiting for the 
 man to come and discover it, and with its help write a new and 
 a splendid page of history. 
 
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Results to Be Expected from Surface Research. 
 
 The additions to the sum of human knowledge that may be 
 expected from a systematic search for everything that is above 
 ground in Asia Minor will be manifold in nature. Such a sys- 
 tematic search will throw light on ancient geography, on an- 
 cient history and legislation, whether local, regal, imperial, or 
 municipal, on the history of Christianity in the earlier centuries 
 of our era, on customs and manners, on pagan religious rites, 
 ceremonies, and usages, on the location and importance of an- 
 cient cities, on ancient roads and road systems, trade-routes and 
 international commerce, in short, on every conceivable subject 
 affected by the discovery and proper assimilation of Greek and 
 Latin inscriptions, combined with a patient study of the 
 topography, geography, and local history. The material col- 
 lected in this way is much more difficult to assimilate, much 
 more difficult to fit into its proper place, its own special niche 
 or corner in history or geography than is the material gained 
 by excavations. It therefore demands an expert with broader 
 knowledge, more balanced judgment, and keener instincts than 
 does the material gained by excavations. Therefore surface 
 research is best managed in connexion with excavations. 
 
 Chartography a Surface Exploration. 
 
 The extant maps of Asia Minor in general are based on dead- 
 reckoning by the time consumed in the march of a horse. The 
 convention upon which geographers have had to work is that in 
 one hour an average horse will pass over three miles and one- 
 half. But this convention is wholly unsatisfactory ; Ramsay has 
 found that the driving time will vary between six and twelve 
 minutes per kilometer, for the horse will travel rapidly or 
 slowly, as the road is good or poor, or as it traverses level or 
 hilly ground. There is no trustworthy map of Asia minor, for 
 all alike are crude and inaccurate. There is not a single city on 
 the plateau of Asia Minor, apart from the few railway surveys, 
 whose situation is certain within several miles. Owing to this 
 fact route surveys, however good, however much they may ap- 
 
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 proach perfection, whether made by Kiepert, Ramsay, von 
 Diest, Admiral Spratt, or Major Bennett, are mere makeshifts. 
 Therefore in adapting special route surveys to the general map 
 this uncertainty is exasperating to travelling scholars, because 
 they cannot make their own routes fit into the general scheme. 
 
 Ancient Roads a Surface Exploration. 
 
 The study of ancient roads in general is most important, diffi- 
 cult, and fascinating. In earliest times the road-system through- 
 out Asia Minor led to and centered in the capital of the Hittite 
 empire, a capital whose site was that of the modern Boghaz- 
 kieui, though the name of the city itself is as yet unknown. 
 
 Later on the road-system led to and centered in Ephesus, at 
 one extreme, and Susa, at the other. Under early Roman rule 
 the roads continued to point to Ephesus, because Ephesus 
 pointed to Rome. With the change in the seat of empire the 
 road-system pointed to and centered in Constantinople; and 
 similarly Iconium was its center in Seljukian times. 
 
 In addition to these grand centers of the various road-sys- 
 tems there were, in the Roman period, provincial centers of 
 provincial road-systems; and distances were measured from 
 these provincial centers. All sorts of geographical problems 
 depend upon the accurate fixing and locating of the actual 
 track, or line, of these roads, whether international or provin- 
 cial. But it is more imperative that the lines of the roads in 
 the Roman period be fixed with entire accuracy. 
 
 Method of Conducting Surface Research. 
 
 The aim of the leader of the expedition would be to fix upon 
 a given Province, whether Cappadocia, Lycia, Phrygia, Cilicia, 
 Pamphylia, or what not, and to visit, perhaps repeatedly, every 
 village in that Province, district by district; to collect every 
 Greek, Latin, or Hittite inscription that is above ground; to 
 study, plan, and photograph every monument of antiquity and 
 every Early Christian Church; to get every scrap of informa- 
 tion that may be gathered from the lips of the natives. Ex- 
 
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 perience has taught travelling archaeologists that the most ef- 
 fective method of conducting surface research is to encamp for 
 some time at a given town or village and make excursions 
 therefrom as a center, and to repeat this in consecutive years. 
 This plan makes the presence of the exploring party known to 
 everybody in the vicinity ; it puts the travellers on terms of 
 friendship and intimacy with the natives; it allays their ever 
 alert suspicion and overcomes their reluctance to tell of antiqui- 
 ties; and it brings in information that could not be had by 
 merely journeying through the country. For many ears, and 
 many eyes, and many tongues hear, see, and impart 'more than 
 a lone traveller can hope for. In short it is the principle of 
 intensive farming applied to surface research. 
 
 Such an expedition would accomplish something really sub- 
 stantial along the lines mentioned, something that would be a 
 permanent gain for the science of the past, for archaeology, 
 history, geography, topography, religion, legislation, manners, 
 customs, etc., from prehistoric, that is, from pre-hellenic, times 
 down to the present day. 
 
 Sore Need for Haste in Doing Surface Research. 
 
 There is a crying need for great haste in putting into the field 
 an expedition for surface research. The reason for haste is the 
 fact that ancient monuments of every kind, whether structural, 
 sculptural, or epigraphical are being destroyed every day with 
 pitiful remorselessness. The Turks, and even the Christians, 
 are using the ancient stones of every kind for building ma- 
 terials, especially in the construction of mosques, fountains, 
 barracks, mussafir odas, schools, etc. But besides that the 
 actual annihilation of buildings, of sculptured and inscribed 
 stones, is brought about in two ways, firstly, by being burned to 
 make lime, and, secondly, by being destroyed ruthlessly because 
 of superstition or religion. There is a universally prevalent be- 
 lief that the hewn, sculptured, or inscribed stones that date from 
 pagan or Christian antiquity contain gold which was secreted 
 in their interior by the inhabitants of the country at the time 
 of the Seljuk or Turkish conquest. Therefore the searcher for 
 
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 gold attacks the stones with drill and maul and blows them up 
 with gunpowder, a fate which befell the splendid lion of Chae- 
 ronaea. On the other hand the religious fanatic destroys an- 
 cient stones, whether they be sculptured or inscribed, because 
 sculpture is an offense in his nostrils, and inscriptions carved on 
 stone by the detested infidels, whether Pagan or Christian, are 
 hated all the more by the Moslems, because, in their ignorance, 
 they are unable to read the inscriptions which tell where 
 treasure was hidden by the Giaours at the time of the Turkish 
 conquest. Therefore, to prevent the interloping archaeologists 
 from reaping a golden harvest that is denied to the faithful, 
 but ignorant, Moslem, he takes hammer and chisel and hacks 
 away the inscription, or at least he defaces it to the best of his 
 ability ; especially if the stone bears a cross that hated symbol. 
 
 When Leake travelled, the city walls of Iconium were still 
 full of inscribed stones and works of sculpture. After the de- 
 struction of Iconium by Ibrahim Pasha a new city was built 
 adjoining the old city. The ancient stones which formed the 
 city walls were utilized in building the new city. When I 
 travelled, the core of the old city walls, which consisted origin- 
 ally of mud, was still full of the traces of the impressions which 
 the mud had made of inscriptions and works of sculpture. All 
 the stones had perished beyond recovery. 
 
 Again, in his Historical Geography (p. 333), a book published 
 not a great many years ago, Ramsay mentions, near Iconium, 
 ''the remains of a fine and large Christian Church," but in 1900 
 Crowfoot found scarcely ''one stone standing upon another." 
 
 Therefore, if we would save all these disjecta membra of a 
 glorious antiquity we must be up and doing. This fact is well 
 recognized in Europe, thanks chiefly to Sir William M. Ramsay, 
 who has spent thirty years of his life in surface research in 
 Asia Minor. 
 
 In 1907 the present writer, who had himself spent years in 
 surface research, organized a Cornell Expedition to Asia Minor, 
 in order thereby to aid in snatching some bits of knowledge 
 from the burning. The results of the work of the Cornell Ex- 
 pedition will be published during 1911. 
 
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 Initial Outlay for Surface Research. 
 
 The initial equipment for surface research would include 
 scientific instruments, photographic outfits and supplies for each 
 member of the expedition, tents, camp equipments, and cooking 
 outfits for each member of the expedition, in order to enable 
 each man to work independently and separately and along sepa- 
 rate routes, riding horses, pack-mules, two-wheeled gigs, 
 trocheameters, etc. But this initial outlay, once made, would 
 not be an annual expense, except that from time to time renew- 
 als will have to be made, as this or that article, implement, or 
 animal becomes useless, from whatever cause. 
 
 Excavations. 
 
 It may be expected confidently that large additions to the 
 sum of human knowledge will result from surface explorations 
 in Asia Minor, but the most priceless treasures for archaeology, 
 for history, for art, for architecture, lie buried beneath the soil. 
 Here only excavations will avail, and for that reason systematic 
 excavations pursued to an absolute finish, should go hand in 
 hand with the systematic exploration of the surface. 
 
 Sites Belonging to the Hittite Period. 
 
 It cannot be doubted that excavations will greatly advance 
 the science of the past, and will throw a bright light upon the 
 history of the world for nearly three millenniums. It would 
 begin at a time prior to the dawn of Greek history, and the 
 story that will be told by the great mounds of Tyana, Iconium, 
 Caesarea-Mazaca, and Melitene, all of them Hittite cities, will 
 "stupefy and astound" the world, to use the words of Sir Wil- 
 liam M. Ramsay. These mounds vary in size somewhat ; that of 
 Tyana covers approximately forty acres, and this mound, forty 
 acres in extent, is the ancient Hittite city of Tyana. Conditions 
 similar to those already mentioned prevail at other Hittite sites. 
 The spade alone can reveal the contents of these mounds, and in 
 those mounds there lies buried a story about which the world of 
 scholars is burning to hear. Hittite sculptures lie so near the 
 
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 surface of the great mound of Melitene that they were prac- 
 tically protruding from it until removed some three years ago ; 
 the mounds of Caesarea-Mazaca and especially that of Iconium 
 are equally promising. Besides these there are a large number 
 of Hittite sites all over Asia Minor ; they must all be excavated, 
 as the very names of Ivriz, Fassiler, El Flatun Punar at once 
 suggest. 
 
 Sites belonging to the Phrygian Period. 
 
 "What, in the absence of a real name, may be called "Midas- 
 town," with its many tombs of Phrygian kings, so famed in 
 mythical history, represents the Phrygian empire which suc- 
 ceeded that of the Hittites. The Acropolis (Pidgmish Kale, 
 Digged Castle, so called because it was hewn down into the 
 solid rock) and the grave monuments of ''Midastown" and of 
 the entire adjacent region must be drawn and mapped, and ex- 
 cavations must be made in the neighborhood of the tombs of 
 the Kings. Hogarth in his ** Accidents of an Antiquary's Life," 
 which has just appeared (April, 1910), says on page 9, "I have 
 seen no region so thickly set with strange memorials of the 
 past, and none to which I would more joyfully return. Some 
 day when diggers uncover the relics of that Midaean monarchy 
 which seemed to the early Greeks of Asia the eldest and most 
 God-like of Powers, may I be there to see!" And may the 
 present writer be there to see ! The rock-cut tombs of Paphla- 
 gonia and of Lycia must also be investigated and published in 
 a similar way. This has long been a crying need. 
 
 Sites belonging to the Hellenic Period. 
 
 The Greek cities of the southern and western seaboard of 
 Asia Minor have but begun to tell us their wonderful tale of the 
 achievements and civilization of Hellas. Sooner or later we 
 must begin with the confederated cities of ancient Lycia and 
 pass round the sea-front to Sinope and Trapezus all must and 
 will be excavated, for idealism is still to be reckoned with. In 
 particular Colophon and Lebedos will reveal unadulterated 
 
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 Greek civilization in Ionia from its inception down to the time 
 of Lysimachus, who transferred the inhabitants of those cities 
 in a body to his new Ephesus. Therefore Colophon and Lebedos 
 will present pure Hellenism, unaffected by the civilization of 
 the Hellenistic and Roman periods. 
 
 Sites belonging to the Hellenistic and Roman Period. 
 
 The great cities that flourished from the time of Alexander 
 the Great and throughout the Roman period are very numerous, 
 and all of them need to be excavated, for they all have history 
 buried beneath the soil that covers them. In the first instance 
 may be mentioned Antioch, that splendid city, where the title of 
 Christian was first used. Tarsus, Perge, Xanthus, etc. Then, 
 following in the track of St. Paul, come Laodicea in the Lycus 
 valley, Hierapolis, Colossae, Antioch in Pisidia, etc., and many 
 others that illustrate the Hellenistic and GraBCO-Roman civiliza- 
 tion. 
 
 Sites belonging to the Early Christian and Byzantine Period. 
 
 The study of the Churches of the early Christian and Byzan- 
 tine period is imperatively necessary, and should begin at once. 
 These churches are scattered all over Asia Minor and Syria. It 
 is discreditable to Christendom that they have been neglected. 
 They have a wonderful story to tell to students of the history of 
 art and architecture, as is abundantly shown by Strzy gowski 's 
 **Kleinasien ein Neuland der Kunstgeschichte. " They must be 
 restored in drawings by expert architects, in order to discover 
 the architectural movement which created them. All other 
 monuments of early Christian art must be gathered up and pre- 
 served, ere they perish beyond recall. As will be seen in letters 
 printed below, European scholars insist that this work for the 
 Early Christian period be undertaken immediately. 
 
 The Troglodytic Dwellings of Cappadocia. 
 
 The thousands of artificial temples, dwellings, churches, 
 chapels, which are excavated in the beautiful cones and cliffs of 
 
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 central Cappadocia, have never been studied, much less sur- 
 veyed and published; and yet they constitute one of the won- 
 ders of the world (see the writer's article in the Century for 
 September, 1900). The earliest of these cone and cliff dwellings 
 probably go back to the Hittite period, as the cones certainly do, 
 but all periods are represented: the Hittite, the Hellenic, the 
 Christian. The walls of many of the Christian chapels (in the 
 cliffs and cones) are still covered with paintings, mostly badly 
 weathered. These dwellings alone would keep a large force of 
 men busy for several years. 
 
 Incidentally it may be stated that the Anthropologist has 
 a tremendous field for his activities in Asia Minor, where the 
 aboriginal inhabitants are still extant, where the old Gauls may 
 still be pointed out, where the primitive Troglodyte of the 
 Bakluzan Dere and the degraded natives of the Taurus moun- 
 tains are offset by a host of interloping Asiatics of low estate. 
 
 Monuments belonging to the Seljuk Period. 
 
 The splendid architecture and art of the Seljuk period, though 
 borrowed from Hellas, is well worthy of study and investigation 
 at the hands of expert architects. The glorious, but alas ruined, 
 Mosques of Seljuk Konia, Sivas, and other cities cry aloud for 
 preservation in proper publications (see Wiegand's letter). 
 The same is true of the long series of ruined or ruinous kahns 
 that are scattered up and down the old Seljuk empire, the chief 
 and king of them all being that princely pile, the Sultan Kahn. 
 Incidentally, too, these Kahns tell a story of the trade-routes in 
 the Seljuk period. 
 
 Crusaders. 
 
 The passes of the Taurus mountains from Cataonia westwards 
 must be studied carefully and conscientiously in connexion with 
 the movements of the Crusaders. 
 
 Publication of Results. 
 
 As Freiherr Hiller von Gaertringen of the University of Berlin 
 points out, an archaeological expedition is judged by scholars 
 
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 not by its good intentions, nor even by the splendid discoveries 
 it may make, but solely by its published results. And these 
 publications must be made quickly, as quickly as is consistent 
 with scholarly accuracy. Preliminary reports may be made, but 
 the final publication of the results of research in a given district 
 or Province should not be made until the excavations shall have 
 been completed in that district or Province. Then an exhaustive 
 monograph, by the whole staff of excavators and investigators, 
 on the work done in the entire region should be given to the 
 world at once. Such a monograph, containing finished studies, 
 would be of fundamental and permanent value to all classes of 
 students of antiquity, and it would confer honour upon the in- 
 stitution promoting the work and upon our country at large. 
 
 Scope of Appropriations. 
 
 The appropriations of an institution that stands for pure 
 idealism should go to the furtherance of projects of scope so 
 wide that they embrace the whole world, to the furtherance of 
 projects whose results may be claimed by all mankind as a pos- 
 session forever. Such a project of universal human interest is 
 this present one. 
 
 The work done hitherto by America in archaeological research 
 has always been unsatisfactory, has always been incomplete, 
 and with few exceptions it will have to be done over again by 
 more scientific, more systematic expeditions working with larger 
 resources ; for the research done by Americans has always been 
 crippled by slender and inadequate means. It is time to do 
 really scientific, systematic, exhaustive work pursued to a finish, 
 work that may be safely compared with that done by France, 
 Germany, and Austria, whose governments, understanding the 
 value and importance of real idealism in molding national char- 
 acter, supply their scholars with ample means wherewith to 
 carry on research. 
 
 Americans cannot hope for similar subventions from their 
 government, but they can, and they do, hope for them from an 
 institution which, from its very inception, is based on pure and 
 exalted idealism. It is for such an expedition that the writer is 
 
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 pleading, for an expedition thoroughly equipped with special- 
 ists and with ample resources at its command. For if stinted in 
 properly qualified men or in money the expedition will be handi- 
 capped and rendered inefficient from the outset. 
 
 The Personnel of the Expedition. 
 
 In view of his past achievements the present writer would beg 
 to lead the expedition and he would devote himself permanently 
 to the work. Other members of the expedition might perhaps 
 be borrowed annually from the faculties of the various Universi- 
 ties of America. Many young scholars, Ph.D. graduates, could 
 be had for a trifle in excess of their expenses, for the sake of 
 the training they would get and the opportunity afforded them 
 of seeing historic lands. Such Apprentices could be utilized in 
 many ways to the very great advantage of the expedition and to 
 the great advantage of scholarship in America. 
 
 But the plan of borrowing Professors annually from the sev- 
 eral Universities would be vexatious and unsatisfactory, be- 
 cause it would make impossible any real continuity in the work 
 of research, and for that reason a number of Research Associ- 
 ates and Research Assistants should form, with the Director, 
 the permanent staff of the expedition. As time goes on the 
 Apprentices will have become trained experts, and possible gaps 
 in the permanent staff would naturally be filled from their 
 ranks. 
 
 It may be assumed that these experts would have to make 
 provision for their families, apart from their travelling and field 
 expenses, and therefore living salaries will have to be paid 
 them. 
 
 The personnel of the expedition for surface research would 
 consist in part of the same men who conduct the work of exca- 
 vation, namely, of a number of archaeologists, two chartograph- 
 ers, at least two professional photographers, a physician and 
 surgeon. The excavating party would consist of the above- 
 mentioned men, and, in addition, of two or more expert archi- 
 tects,, two trained engineers, a professional nurse (or a second 
 physician and surgeon) and several stenographers and type- 
 
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 writers. The history of the excavations will be written, not 
 merely day by day, but hour by hour, as objects come to light. 
 All objects must be photographed on the spot, and a full ac- 
 count of them must be made on the spot. Therefore a number 
 of stenographers must be ready to take down dictation at any 
 moment. 
 
 In this connexion the present writer cannot refrain from 
 pointing out the fact that Asia Minor is practically virgin soil 
 for the botanist, the geologist, the entomologist, and the anthro- 
 pologist. In Cilicia, for instance, there are a number of prob- 
 lems of grave importance for the history of that country whose 
 proper and final solution must rest with geologists. An expedi- 
 tion equipped with experts in the above-mentioned sciences 
 would accomplish a work that would be warmly welcomed by 
 scholars in the pure sciences as well as by scholars in the sci- 
 ences of the past. 
 
 Equipment for Excavations. 
 
 The initial equipment for excavations would be costly. For 
 the expeditious and real removal of dirt and debris it would 
 often be necessary to have a line of narrow-gauge railway-track 
 and cars to be drawn by mules, implements of various kinds, 
 tents, moveable cottages, culinary equipment, draft mules, pack 
 mules and their gear, riding horses and saddles, carts, wagons, 
 a special field library to include everything that has been writ- 
 ten about, or bears on, the region which, for the moment, is 
 being explored and excavated. 
 
 All of this initial equipment should be paid for by an appro- 
 priation other than and apart from the annual appropriation, or 
 else the first annual appropriation might be reserved for the 
 equipment. It may take a year to get the permit for excava- 
 tions, and in the meantime surface research can be carried on. 
 
 The Unit of Time. 
 
 Research of this kind cannot be really effective and product- 
 ive of the richest results unless carried on for a long series of 
 years. Nothing of permanent scientific value can be accom- 
 
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 plished by isolated effort, by explosive effort, or by work con- 
 ducted by fits and starts accompanied by a change of personnel. 
 The work must be continuous, and the workers must be certain 
 of its continuance for many consecutive years, and practically 
 without reference to time or immediate results. The members 
 of the expedition must know that their work, if satisfactory, is 
 to continue for a period of twenty, forty years, or longer, for 
 their work will be so specialized that they will be practically 
 excluded from a career of teaching in this country. But with 
 the knowledge that their work, if efficient, will be continuous, 
 they will feel justified in acquiring that special, local, historical, 
 and archaeological knowledge without which no expedition can 
 achieve the best results. That which in one year may be held 
 for truth may be modified, corrected, or proved false by the 
 experience of succeeding years. One who is on the ground for 
 a number of consecutive years is always learning, and what is 
 learnt always makes for Truth and the good of history, archae- 
 ology, or geography. 
 
 The Working Season. 
 On the plateau of central Asia Minor work may be carried on 
 during the months May 1st to November 1st, the period between 
 the spring and autumn rains. But the season will vary greatly 
 elsewhere. The southern sea-board is deadly throughout the 
 hot period, when the pernicious malarial fever usually kills out- 
 siders. Work at Antioch, in Cilicia, Pamphylia, Southern Lycia 
 and Caria can be carried on only in March- April and October- 
 November, and possibly December. The working season there- 
 fore will be about four or five months in each year. The re- 
 mainder of the year will be spent in working up for publication 
 the results of the summer's campaign. This should be done 
 under the shadow of some great library, where one can get at 
 all books and consult with scholars. 
 
 The Subvention Asked For in Principle. 
 
 In case this Project is approved in principle, the petitioner is 
 ready to suggest definite regions for research and definite sites 
 for excavation. 
 
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 The amount of money necessary might, and probably will, 
 vary considerably from year to year, and it is not necessary to 
 ask for any definite sum, until the project shall have been ap- 
 proved in principle. 
 
 In view of what has been set forth above the undersigned re- 
 spectfully pleads for a Subvention for Surface Research and for 
 Excavations in Asia Minor, as follows : 
 
 An annual appropriation for surface research and for excava- 
 tions in Asia Minor, which should be preceded by a prelimi- 
 nary appropriation for the purchase of the initial equipment as 
 outlined above. And because this research must be continuous, 
 if it is to be valuable, this annual appropriation should be based 
 on Twenty Years as the unit of time, with the outlook for a re- 
 newal of the grant at the end of said unit of time. 
 
 The petitioner's contention above is that an expedition with 
 large resources at its command, such as would make it possible 
 to put a large body of trained experts into the work of research, 
 would prove to be a boon to mankind at large, would confer 
 honor upon the promoters of the project, and upon America. 
 But while the petitioner begs for such a subvention, still he de- 
 sires to make it quite plain that a small appropriation, continued 
 for a long series of years, can and surely will accomplish a vast 
 deal of good, and, therefore, he would welcome even a small 
 appropriation, though longing eagerly for a large subvention. 
 
 The Petitioner. 
 
 The author of this Project is not an amateur or a novice in 
 surface research in Asia Minor. He spent four years in such 
 work, though the actual time spent in the saddle covers a net 
 period of two years and a half. He was for a time a member of 
 the Expedition which excavated Assos, and he published The 
 Inscriptions of Assos. He then served an apprenticeship in sur- 
 face research under Sir William M. Ramsay, with whom he 
 travelled for one summer in Phrygia, publishing as results of his 
 work. The Inscriptions of Sebaste, and The Inscriptions of Tral- 
 leis. He then travelled one entire summer at his own charges, 
 publishing a large volume entitled. An Epigraphical Journey in 
 
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 Asia Minor. Then, as a member of the Wolfe Expedition to 
 Babylonia he published The Inscriptions of Palmyra. There- 
 after he travelled for another summer in Asia Minor, and the 
 results of this journey were laid down in a large volume en- 
 titled, The Wolf Expedition to Asia Minor. 
 
 Testimonials of the Petitioner's Fitness to Direct Research 
 
 Work. 
 
 The petitioner's fitness to direct research in Asia Minor, as 
 outlined above, is vouched for by many eminent scholars in 
 Europe and America.* 
 
 The letter of Professor B. L. Gildersleeve is placed at the head 
 of the list, because it introduces the reader to the distinguished 
 European scholars who write in support of the present Project, 
 and points out that they are all men of the greatest repute in 
 Europe. 
 
 Johns Hopkins University. 
 
 There can be no question as to the promise of the field, but in 
 such matters everything depends on the leader, and with Pro- 
 fessor Sterrett in charge the work is sure to be a success. I have 
 known Professor Sterrett for more than thirty years. He was a 
 student of mine at the University of Virginia and I have fol- 
 lowed his career with the deepest interest and increasing ad- 
 miration. His achievements in his favorite line of work and his 
 fitness for it are alike beyond my praise. His familiarity with 
 the land and the people, his learning, his insight, his archaeo- 
 logical sense, his courage, his perseverance, have been attested 
 by those whose lightest word of commendation carries weight 
 with the scholarly world. The list of men who favor the enter- 
 
 [^The undated letters appended hereto were written by their respect- 
 ive authors in the hope of making possible such a subvention as would 
 enable the present writer to carry on a work of research, exploration, 
 and excavation as set forth above. All letters have been edited slightly, 
 superfluous matter has been omitted, and certain words or sentences 
 have been printed in bold-faced type in order to direct attention to state- 
 ments that should be emphasized and considered.] 
 
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 prise and express their confidence in its eminent leader com- 
 prises the greatest names in the contemporary annals of philo- 
 logical and archaeological research. There is not one amongst 
 them whose name does not stand for high achievements and con- 
 spicuous ability. 
 
 This seems to me a unique opportunity to make a memorable 
 contribution to the knowledge of ancient civilization, and I 
 count it not only a pleasure but a privilege to bear testimony to 
 the importance of the undertaking and to the eminent fitness of 
 Dr. Sterrett for the direction of the work. 
 
 (Signed) BASIL L. GILDERSLEEVE, 
 
 Professor of Greek in Johns Hopkins University. 
 
 Endorsement of Travellers and Excavators. 
 
 University of Aberdeen. 
 
 I take the liberty to write supporting Professor Sterrett 's ap- 
 peal for a liberal subvention to Asia Minor exploration. It is 
 now becoming universally recognized that the next important 
 development in our knowledge of early history depends on work 
 in Asia Minor. 
 
 I would urge that excavation, as stated by him, is easier and 
 more promising and more urgent than surface research for sev- 
 eral reasons. 
 
 (1) Surface research gives only the foundations of history, 
 does not readily appeal to general interest, and depends on long 
 slow working up of slight materials collected in wide and long 
 continued exploration. 
 
 (2) Long experience is needed to learn how to make the most 
 of opportunities in travel. I have been travelling since May, 
 1880, and it seems to me that until 1901 I was only learning the 
 art. Much of the learning was a slow process of growing 
 familiar in years of study at home with the problems. Of course 
 my experience is wholly at the service of any of your explorers, 
 and your men, especially Professor Sterrett, could get up to the 
 elements of a complicated subject much more quickly than those 
 
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 elements were originally brought together. But excavation can 
 begin at once and be carried on with every advantage from the 
 outset (given care in registration day by day) ; and in the pro- 
 cess of excavations and study of the conditions revealed, very 
 considerable progress would be made in learning the way to 
 utilize the work of surface research in the future also the 
 training in observation during the excavations would be ad- 
 mirable practice for surface research; whereas the converse is 
 not true. 
 
 (3) The work of surface research is already advanced to a 
 considerable degree during my 30 years of work, whereas we 
 are all eagerly waiting for excavations to begin. German and 
 Austrian work in excavations has been devoted to latest Greek 
 and Roman times. 
 
 I know of no opportunity for achieving more brilliant and 
 possibly even stupefying results quickly than in excavations (to 
 be followed after some years perhaps by surface research, which 
 can only give solid, but never striking and arresting results.) 
 Personally, I feel so strongly the truth of what I have been say- 
 ing that I am at present turning to excavations as far as my 
 poor equipment will permit. 
 
 (Signed) W. M. RAMSAY. 
 Traveller, Excavator, Author of numerous works on Asia 
 Minor. 
 
 United States Consulate, Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany. 
 
 May I venture to emphasize the exceptional claims, which 
 such a comprehensive and well-planned scheme of archaeological 
 and scientific investigation has for careful consideration by en- 
 lightened Americans. 
 
 No such complete and thoroughly coordinated project for re- 
 search in Turkey has been devised by the savants of any land. 
 
 There is a peculiar fitness in the establishment and mainte- 
 nance of such an undertaking under American auspices. Ameri- 
 can philanthropy and altruistic efforts have accomplished more 
 in the moral and intellectual uplift of Turkey than all other 
 
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 factors combined, as has been so forcibly shown by Ambassador 
 Bryce, in his studies on the future of the Ottoman Empire. 
 
 There is now a network of American physicians, teachers and 
 missionaries, covering the empire, most admirably adapted to 
 render auxiliary work to any American scientific enterprise; 
 while public opinion, so far as such exists in Turkey, recognizes 
 the total absence of any political or territorial aspirations, in 
 connection with the labors of our countrymen throughout the 
 Ottoman territory. 
 
 The time is ripe for the systematic, coordinated, exhaustive 
 treatment of the vast amount of material in Turkey awaiting 
 the well equipped archaeologist and scientist. 
 
 I have a personal acquaintance with Asiatic Turkey and West- 
 ern Persia, more extended than that of any other American, 
 with the exception of Dr. Sterrett, and possibly a very few of 
 the older missionaries. In the course of my many thousand 
 miles of travel there, I have been amazed at the extent of the 
 remains of all the great historical epochs, still awaiting careful 
 investigation. 
 
 The facilities for travel, for exploration, for excavation, have 
 all been increased in a rapid ratio of late years. The general 
 advance, all along the line, in epigraphy and ethnology, have 
 been such during the past decade, that the trained energetic in- 
 vestigator in Oriental fields can accomplish to-day vastly more 
 in a given time, than was possible but a few years since. 
 
 As I have watched on the spot the sporadic, disconnected ex- 
 plorations now being undertaken by small unevenly equipped 
 parties of different nationalities, in Syria, Mesopotamia, Ar- 
 menia, Persia, and Asia Minor, I have more than once realized 
 how their work could be trebled or quadrupled in permanent 
 value, if it were only conducted upon lines ensuring continuity 
 and coordination, such as has produced, and is producing mar- 
 velous results in Greece. 
 
 There is no question in my mind, that no other living Ameri- 
 can possesses more than a fraction of Dr. Sterrett 's peculiar 
 qualifications for the direction of such a work. 
 
 It would be impossible to find another man combining the 
 
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 actual experience on the ground, the scholarly training, the 
 physical and temperamental fitness for the exceptional demands 
 on vitality of body and spirit, and above all, the deep-seated 
 enthusiasm and personal predilection for this special field, which 
 is so absolutely indispensable for lasting success. 
 
 I should as unhesitatingly put my finger on Dr. Sterrett as the 
 one American preeminently fitted for such work, as I should 
 have designated Commander Peary as the American best 
 equipped for solving the Arctic problem. 
 
 My somewhat unusual familiarity with the proposed field of 
 activity has led me to the conviction that every year of delay in 
 developing a comprehensive, all-embracing plan of exploration 
 in Turkey is seriously lessening the possibilities of final accom- 
 plishment, because the disintegration, defacement and destruc- 
 tion of the monuments of the past are proceeding at an alarming 
 pace. 
 
 No intelligent traveller in Turkey can witness the steady dis- 
 appearance of what should be ''laboratory material" for the 
 archaeologist and ethnologist without a heartache. 
 
 I think that I echo the feelings of all my countrymen who 
 have come into close contact with the possibilities of Oriental 
 exploration, when I earnestly and urgently press its importance 
 upon your attention, as appealing strongly to the sympathetic 
 and generous consideration of our countrymen. 
 
 (Signed) THOMAS H. NORTON, 
 Formerly American Consul in Harput and in Smyrna. Agent 
 of the U. S. Government in Armenia, Syria, Mesopotamia, and 
 Persia. 
 
 Kaiserliches Archaeologisches Institut, 
 
 (Translation.) Berlin, den 23 Dezember 1910. 
 
 I hope that it is not too late to do everything that I can to 
 help bring Professor Sterrett 's magnificent plan to realization. 
 All archaeologists know, as a matter of course, and from my 
 own scientific and practical experience I too bear witness, that 
 an exhaustive and comprehensive investigation of the soil of 
 
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 Asia Minor, particularly in the interior of the peninsula, be- 
 longs among the most urgent needs of science, and I declare 
 that I agree with everjiihing that Professor Sterrett has said 
 in regard to the necessity for a long-continued, and if possible 
 permanently organized, work of research; that I agree with 
 what he has said in regard to ample means and a large staff of 
 workers ; with what he has said in regard to the urgency of the 
 work, that we may make haste to save for science what is still 
 to be saved ; with what he has said in regard to the importance 
 of Asia Minor for the history of culture and for the history of 
 the world in the most various periods. 
 
 I will also say that Professor Sterrett 's request for a large sub- 
 vention to be continued for a long time is wisdom. I hope that 
 his petition will be granted, for the enterprise will bring the 
 very greatest honor to America and will advance all sciences in 
 the highest degree. 
 
 It is perhaps not yet time to speak of details in Professor 
 Sterrett 's plan; but still I should like to call attention to two 
 points. Professor Sterrett has in mind not only the work in the 
 field, but also, as a matter of course, work in the study devoted 
 to the preparation and publication of the material found and ob- 
 served during the course of the investigations and excavations. 
 Experience has shown that this part of archaeological undertak- 
 ings is almost regularly underrated; I regard it as demanding 
 much more time and as being much more difficult than the col- 
 lection of the material, and I suggest that in making arrange- 
 ments this fact be taken into account from the very outset. 
 
 In the second place, in connexion with Professor Sterrett 's 
 plan. I count on the fellowship and concerted action of the 
 various nations, which are now, or in the future shall be taking 
 part in scientific work on the soil of the Orient. 
 
 (Signed) PUCHSTEIN, 
 
 Director General of the Imperial German Archaeological In- 
 stitute; Excavator in Syria and Asia Minor. Recently de- 
 ceased. 
 
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 University of London, University College, 
 London, 22 Nov. 1910. 
 I earnestly hope that America will take a large part in the 
 study of the great history of humanity which has passed in all 
 the ages. Nowhere is that study more needed than in Asia 
 Minor, Syria, and Mesopotamia. As the United States have 
 already earned their welcome in those lands by their establish- 
 ment of education, so there is no part of the world where their 
 researches would have a readier scope. Dr. Sterrett's proposal 
 to organize such work is most desirable, and it is the most fitting 
 share that the United States can take in the great work of un- 
 derstanding Man. (Signed) W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE, 
 
 Excavator in Egypt. 
 
 Service des Antiquites, 
 
 Cairo, le 8 Novembre 1910. 
 
 I have always held that, now we begin to see our way through 
 Egyptian and Mesopotamian antiquity, Asia Minor ought to be 
 thoroughly searched and all its ancient sites properly excavated, 
 particularly those which border on the upper basin of the 
 Euphrates, where the Hittites and their subjects lived. Most 
 of the problems which baffle us now must find their solution 
 there, whether they concern the story of the Oriental civilisa- 
 tion or whether they be related to the classical nations of 
 Greece and even Italy, if, -as I am inclined to believe, the Etrus- 
 can language came with part of the Etruscan population from 
 Lydia. Therefore I should esteem it a boon for our science, if a 
 large expedition should be sent to Asia Minor, with funds 
 enough to explore, not only the more important sites, but all the 
 old ruins which are scattered on the central plateau from Ar- 
 menia to the shores of the Aegean Sea. 
 
 I should take it as a real favour, if you would tell me from 
 time to time how your scheme succeeds, and when it is likely to 
 be realized. If it were to include excavations in Egypt, you 
 might count on my help to forward it there. 
 
 (Signed) G. MASPeRO, 
 
 Director of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities and of Ex- 
 cavations. 
 
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 (Translation.) Kaiserl. Deutsch. Archaeol. Institut, Athen. 
 
 Pergamon bei Smyrna, den 5. September 1910. 
 
 It would be a scientific feat of the first rank, if this plan could 
 be carried into execution. Not only would numerous branches 
 of science be advantaged, but new points of departure would 
 be gained, if large regions of Asia Minor and Syria could be in- 
 vestigated in the manner planned, and if the results attained 
 could be made known to the scholars of the whole world by a 
 comprehensive publication. 
 
 As I myself have labored for years in several parts of Asia 
 Minor (particularly in Troy and Pergamon) I know that the 
 soil of Asia Minor still holds buried rich, and even undreamed 
 of, treasures. The small expeditions and investigations that 
 have been made up to the present have by no means been able 
 to raise those treasures and give them over to science. There- 
 fore I should greet with enthusiasm the realization of this great 
 plan, if Professor Sterrett himself would undertake its direc- 
 tion. His name guarantees a thoroughly competent manage- 
 ment of the magnificent undertaking. 
 
 (Signed) PROFESSOR DR. WILHELM DORPFELD, 
 
 Erster Sekretar des Kaiserl. Deutschen Archaeolog. Instituts 
 in Athen. (Excavator at Olympia, Athens, and many sites in 
 Greece; Excavator at Troy and Pergamon). 
 
 Institut de France. 
 Academic des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 
 
 Paris. 
 (Translation.) Le Secretaire perpetuel de I'Academie. 
 
 I can only approve highly of the thought. I began my own 
 career of savant by a journey in Asia Minor which lasted more 
 than a year, and I can understand the important results of every 
 kind that could not fail to be attained by a methodical explora- 
 tion of that country, especially by an expedition planned so 
 well by Mr. Sterrett and with the large resources that could be 
 placed at its disi)osal by cultured Americans of large wealth. 
 I have followed the career of Mr. Sterrett. He is an archae- 
 ologist and an epigraphist. He knows the country in which 
 
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 he would have to work, the language and the customs of 
 the people who live there. In him you would have ''the right 
 man in the right place, ' ' something that is not always true. No 
 one could be more sure of success. 
 
 My past career as traveller and the interest that I have never 
 ceased to have for research work done in this part of the classi- 
 cal world give me the right to believe that I shall not be indis- 
 creet in venturing to recommend warmly to the board of an 
 endowed institution that they undertake the project submit- 
 ted to them by Mr. Sterrett. It goes without saying that 
 excavations cannot be begun until after surface research shall 
 have proceeded far enough to determine upon the sites that give 
 good promise of fine discoveries. 
 
 (Signed) GEORGES PERROT, 
 
 Auteur de rExploration archeologique de la Galatie, de la 
 Bithynie, d' une partie de la Cappadoce et du Pont, 2 vol. petit 
 in f^., Paris, Didot, et de T Histoire de 1' Art dans T Antiquite, 
 8 vol. in 8^., Paris, Hachette. 
 
 University of Berlin, 
 (Translation.) Berlin, 2 Nov. 1910. 
 
 In view of the endorsement by so many distinguished scholars, 
 I cannot believe that my modest word can be of importance for 
 the furtherance of Professor Sterrett 's grand and beautiful 
 plan. But I have had the opportunity of following in detail the 
 excavations carried on in Asia Minor during the last generation 
 by our German investigators, and because of my experience in 
 the field I cannot refuse to give expression to my warm interest 
 in the undertaking planned by Professor Sterrett. It is there- 
 fore with absolutely sincere conviction that I subscribe to the 
 endorsement given by a number of the most distinguished rep- 
 resentatives of our science of the past in regard to the im- 
 portance of, and the urgent necessity for, a comprehensive 
 exploration of Asia Minor. Along with them I greet with joy 
 the fact, (1) that the proposed undertaking is directed in the 
 first instance towards a thoroughgoing exploration of the 
 country for all that is above the ground and of the remains that 
 are endangered by the advance of modern civilization; (2) that 
 
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 it is proposed to undertake a really exhaustive and definite 
 investigation of the entire terrain on sites whose importance 
 make excavations necessary; (3) that, from the very outset, it 
 is proposed, as an integral part of the scheme, to make a com- 
 plete publication of the results of the investigations, and that 
 these publications are to keep pace with the work of research, 
 as far as possible. 
 
 If a well-endowed institution will make it possible for so 
 experienced and so excellent an investigator as Professor J. R. 
 S. Sterrett to undertake and carry through such an undertaking 
 by granting him abundant and guaranteed resources, it will 
 thereby give to the world, not merely a treasure of absolutely 
 new knowledge, but, by adding this new knowledge to that 
 gained from numerous investigations in the recent past and in 
 the present, it will enable us to combine all into a great and a 
 splendid whole, and thereby it will do an imperishable service 
 to the historical sciences. 
 
 (Signed) RICHARD SCHONE. 
 
 Konigliche Skulpturensammlung, 
 (Translation.) Dresden, Albertinum, 8 November 1910. 
 
 I am convinced that Asia Minor and Syria, the countries in 
 which the great migrations in the history of mankind meet and 
 mix, are also the countries whose exploration is the most im- 
 perative task of the science of the past, and at the same time the 
 countries which promise the richest returns. I believe with you 
 and Sir "William Ramsay that this is to be reached chiefly by 
 excavations. A glance at our own experiences at Olympia 
 shows how pitiful and how misguiding was almost everything 
 above ground on the site of the old games, and how rich was 
 the information revealed upon the removal of every square foot 
 of earth. One veil after the other fell from the venerable past, 
 whose true portrait we only saw after the excavations. Book- 
 learning and a science of conjecture are as nothing in compari- 
 son with one bit of resurrected Truth. 
 
 (Signed) GEORG TREU. 
 
 From 1877 to 1881 Director of the Excavations of the German 
 Empire at Olympia. 
 
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 (Translation.) Babylon, 16 Nov. 1910. 
 
 You can rest assured that I follow with eager expectation 
 your great plans for Asia Minor and Syria, and that I wish you 
 the best of success. It would be a prodigious achievement. 
 (Signed) EGBERT KOLDEWEY, 
 
 Excavator of Babylon. 
 
 (Translation.) Paris, 19 Novembre 1910. 
 
 I cannot applaud sufficiently your thought and your initiative. 
 Asia Minor is the promised land of the archaeologists, and it 
 contains riches and treasures which will be added to those of 
 which she has been prodigal. Lydia and Sardes in particular 
 should be made the object of methodical excavations. It is 
 there that the civilizations of the Orient and the Occident met, 
 and I am convinced that the ruins of the monuments and the 
 objects excavated will be of incomparable scientific interest. 
 But besides Sardes there are a host of sites that call for the 
 pick of the archaeologist. I will add that the direction of the 
 work could not be committed to better hands than yours. 
 (Signed) MARCEL DIEULAFOY, 
 Membre de 1' Institut; Excavator of Persepolis. 
 
 (Translation.) Paris, 18 Nov. 1910. 
 
 I believe that in the benevolent distribution of such bounteous 
 benefactions the grand and noble cause of the archaeology and 
 epigraphy of the East cannot, and must not, be forgotten, for 
 it is of equal interest to profane and sacred science. The things 
 speak sufficiently for themselves, and it is a case where we must 
 say Lapides clamant ! (Signed) SCHEIL, 
 
 Membre de V Institut ; Excavator of Susa. 
 
 Le Peseau, Boulleret, Cher, 
 (Translation.) 15 Novembre 1910. 
 
 I am happy to add my voice to the authoritative voices that 
 have already endorsed Professor Sterrett's project; I should be 
 still more happy, if this concert of voices were heard by those 
 
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 who dispense the magnificent American benefactions. I think 
 that it would be worthy of the exalted thought that inspired 
 their foundation and of the grand nation which has been made 
 their depositary, if they would assign to the science of history a 
 place among the great works which they will enable mankind to 
 carry through. No country can furnish more abundant and more 
 decisive documents concerning the great problems of the past 
 than Asia Minor and Syria. But to obtain them it is necessary 
 to attack the soil with method: an operation that can only be 
 carried on at very considerable expense. The opportunity of- 
 fered by the generosity of Americans is unique: we should 
 profit by the opportunity, and at once, before the opening up of 
 Asia Minor and Syria to modern progress and industry shall 
 have brought about the final destruction of the monuments of 
 the past. 
 
 (Signed) MAKQUIS DE VOGUE, 
 Membre de 1' Institut; Membre de 1' Academic Francaise; 
 Traveller and Writer. 
 
 Oxford University. 
 May I endorse as strongly as possible Professor Sterrett's 
 statement that further researches in the archasology of Asia 
 Minor is the one thing needful at present? and that a wealthy 
 man or fund could hardly serve science better than by making 
 a substantial grant for that purpose ? 
 
 (Signed) D. G. HOGAETH, 
 
 Ashmolean Museum. 
 Traveller in Asia Minor, Syria, Cyprus. Excavator in Crete 
 and Egypt and at Ephesus. Writer. 
 
 University of Berlin. 
 (Translation.) Berlin, den 10 Oct. 1910. 
 
 Professor Sterrett's plan for extensive and systematic re- 
 search in Asia Minor and Syria fills a real need and promises 
 results of great importance for the history and development of 
 civilization in antiquity and, scarcely to a lesser degree, in the 
 
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 middle ages and in early modern times. I can commend the 
 plan to the kindly consideration of an endowed institution 
 and urge it with all the more earnestness because I myself have 
 undertaken explorations and excavations in eastern Asia Minor 
 partly in the regions had in mind by Professor Sterrett and 
 Armenia, and for that reason I am in a position to have an 
 opinion, and my own experience gives me a right to approve the 
 method suggested by Professor Sterrett and to confirm his views 
 as to the inexhaustible store of archaeological and epigraphical 
 treasures concealed beneath the soil of Asia Minor. 
 
 An extension of the work of research towards the east into 
 Armenian territory is greatly to be desired. In its history and 
 civilization Armenia forms the most important connecting link 
 between Asia Minor proper and Mesopotamia, and the prear- 
 menian kingdom of Van comprised in its western extension im- 
 portant parts of the old Hittite kingdom, as far west as Malatia 
 and even much further. Of its numerous and rich sites only 
 one Toprak Kaleh near Van ^has been investigated seriously. 
 In short the plan is promising and Professor Sterrett is the man 
 to start the work successfully. A unique opportunity to ad- 
 vance science is thus offered. 
 
 C. F. LEHMANN-HAUPT. 
 
 Professor der alten Geschichte an der Universitat. Heraus- 
 geber der Zeitschrift ''Klio,*' Beitrage zur alten Geschichte. 
 Verfasser von ''Armenien sonst und jetzt." 
 
 Christ Church, Oxford. 
 Dr. Sterrett 's name is well known to European scholars as a 
 thoroughly competent worker in this field and as an unusually 
 successful traveller, whose brilliant discoveries in Asia Minor 
 have made a landmark in the exploration of what, from a hu- 
 manist point of view, is perhaps the most interesting and im- 
 portant of all countries. It is clear that we are on the eve of 
 epoch-making discoveries in Asia Minor. Systematic work is 
 being undertaken there both by English and Continental schol- 
 ars, and the results already attained show how much may be 
 expected, once the work is in full swing. It is right that 
 
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 America should share in the honor of this great scientific enter- 
 prise, and all who have at heart the advancement of human 
 knowledge would rejoice at the co-operation of a country which 
 has done so much for the cause of Science in Asiatic Turkey. 
 But no systematic work can be attempted without an adequate 
 subvention guaranteed for a number of years. On the continent 
 such financial assistance is provided by Academies subsidized by 
 the Government, but that method has not been adopted in 
 English-speaking countries. We are obliged to have recourse to 
 the liberality of individuals, which is uncertain and precarious, 
 or of public-spirited institutions such as yours, and I, in com- 
 mon with English savants generally, fervently hope that the 
 appeal of Dr. Sterrett will not be made in vain. 
 
 (Signed) J. G. C. ANDERSON, 
 Traveller in Asia Minor. Writer. 
 
 Queens University, Kingston, Canada. 
 
 If Asia Minor were altogether unknown there would be rea- 
 son to avoid committing your Trust to a large undertaking but 
 a good deal is known already. The results obtained by scat- 
 tered efforts of occasional travellers are sufficient to make it 
 practically certain that important discoveries of every kind 
 would follow upon a really systematic and thorough investiga- 
 tion by competent men. No one can doubt it, although only 
 actual finds can prove the point. I suppose there is an element 
 of uncertainty about all researches that deserve the name. 
 
 The all-important matter is to secure the services of a capable 
 leader. In regard t^ Asia Minor this is easy. The published 
 works of Professor Sterrett demonstrate, beyond cavil, that he is 
 precisely the man to take charge of the expedition. A better 
 leader could not be desired. What can be done by energy and 
 jiadgment in the field Professor Sterrett will do and do well. Not 
 less important is the editing of new material when found and 
 here again his ripe scholarship promises the happiest results. 
 The scheme is a splendid one and, I feel sure, will be a brilliant 
 success if liberally supported. 
 
 (Signed) T. CALLANDER, 
 Traveller in Asia Minor. Writer. 
 
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 Rome. 
 
 As an excavator and traveller of some twelve years' experi- 
 ence in different parts of the East Mediterranean area including 
 Knossos in Crete, may I venture warmly to recommend for 
 favorable consideration the projects, proposed by Professor 
 Sterrett of Cornell for (a) scientific research and (b) excava- 
 tion in Asia Minor. 
 
 If this two-fold scheme, as conceived by so competent a per- 
 son as Dr. Sterrett, receives liberal encouragement, there can 
 be no doubt whatever that the scientists and scholars of other 
 countries will have every reason to congratulate America and 
 the donor of the funds on the results to science and history and 
 on the gains to knowledge. 
 
 Professor Sterrett rightly emphasizes the fact that, in view of 
 the double project he has at heart, Asia Minor is not only to all 
 intents and purposes virgin soil but terra incognita. And in the 
 opinion of the present writer hardly anybody in America could 
 be found so fitted as Dr. Sterrett happens to be by his past spe- 
 cial training, to be the guiding spirit of a scheme of scientific 
 and archaaeological research which he himself has conceived in 
 so comprehensively enlightened and at the same time so emi- 
 nently practical a spirit. 
 
 Hoping that enlightened wealth will see good to regard 
 with the favor it deserves a scheme which so many scholars and 
 men of science not only in your country but also in Europe are 
 bound to follow with interest, I beg to remain, 
 
 (Signed) DUNCAN MACKENZIE. 
 
 University of Vienna. 
 (Translation.) Wien, den 7 Sept. 1910. 
 
 The undertaking of archasological and historical research in 
 Asia Minor and Syria, as planned and recommended by Pro- 
 fessor Sterrett, is of such extraordinary importance, promises 
 so much, and is so urgent, that it is sure of a joyful reception 
 and of hearty support on all sides. So many distinguished 
 scholars have called attention to the importance of the proposed 
 undertaking that it is unnecessary for me to say more about a 
 
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 fact so well recognized as this, that the proposed exploration of 
 Asia Minor and Syria is one of the most important undertakings 
 assigned to our times and to the immediate future. Former 
 investigations on the soil of these countries show abundantly 
 how much is still to be done in them, and what exceedingly rich 
 and undreamed of results are to be expected in these unex- 
 hausted and inexhaustible regions. There can be no doubt that 
 the undertaking of this great project is extraordinarily urgent, 
 and that, even if it be undertaken at once, it will be begun, so 
 to speak, at the eleventh hour, because the progressively grow- 
 ing development of the Orient threatens precisely the precious 
 monuments of the past with irreparable ruin. 
 
 (Signed) ADOLPH WILHELM, 
 
 Professor Archaeology and Epigraphy in the University of 
 Vienna. Traveller in Asia Minor. 
 
 Endorsement of the British Museum. 
 
 British Museum, 
 
 London, W. C, Nov. 19th, 1910. 
 
 No country on the face of the earth offers such a variety of 
 unsolved problems to the explorer as Asia Minor. From its 
 relations with the successive civilisations occupying or in con- 
 tact with it, Assyrian, Egyptian, Cretan, Phrygian, Lydian-, 
 Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, Ottoman, its soil contains 
 evidence, recoverable only by the spade, of inestimable value for 
 the history of the world. A well-equipped and (what is even 
 more necessary) well-led expedition, working exhaustively on 
 some of the sites of known importance, may reasonably hope to 
 achieve revelations of ancient civilisation as epoch-making as 
 those of Layard and Rawlinson in Assyria, or of Evans in Crete. 
 There is no scholar but would rejoice to see some such site or 
 group of sites allotted to an American archaeologist, with the 
 assurance that he had at his back sufficient means to carry the 
 work through to its completion. The sympathy (and, if desired, 
 
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 the advice) of the British Museum would always be at the 
 service of such a project. 
 
 (Signed) FREDERICK G. KENYON, Director, 
 
 ARTHUR HAMILTON SMITH, 
 
 H. B. WALTERS, 
 
 F. H. MARSHALL, 
 
 E. J. FORSDYKE, 
 
 L. W. KING. 
 
 Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 
 
 British Museum, London, W. C, Nov. 14, 1910. 
 I have been greatly interested in your proposals for a more 
 exhaustive survey of Asia Minor. Undoubtedly there is much 
 to be gleaned on the surface, which if it is not gathered quickly 
 will be lost forever. It is also a matter of great importance to 
 organize an expedition, with sufficient resources, and sufficient 
 influence with the Turkish authorities, to run a triangulation 
 across the interior of the country. I well remember, when I 
 had the pleasure of travelling with you in Caria, the difficulty 
 of placing our studies of small parts, in the absence of any gen- 
 eral framework such as would be furnished by triangulation. 
 (Signed) ARTHUR HAMILTON SMITH. 
 
 Department of Coins and Medals, 
 British Museum, London, W. C, Nov. 14, 1910. 
 I do not suppose that my opinion is likely to carry any 
 weight; but I am glad of the opportunity of expressing my 
 earnest hope that you will be successful in obtaining a grant 
 for the purposes of exploration and excavation in Asia Minor. 
 My knowledge of the subject is limited to its numismatic side ; 
 but a long study of the coinage, more especially of the southern 
 districts from Lydia to Cilicia, where the surface has hardly 
 been scratched, convinces me that results of extraordinary im- 
 portance for the history of culture would reward systematic 
 exploration such as you propose. 
 
 (Signed) G. F. HILL. 
 
Si- 
 Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, 
 
 British Museum, London, W. C, XIV, XI, MCMX. 
 I am exceedingly glad that a systematic attempt is to be 
 made to excavate ancient sites in Western Asia, for many his- 
 torical problems connected with that country need solving, and 
 scientific excavations alone will solve them. I sincerely hope 
 that you may obtain a substantial grant, and that work may 
 begin without delay. 
 
 E. A. WALLIS BUDGE, M. A. ; Litt. D. ; D. Litt. 
 
 Department of Coins and Medals, 
 British Museum, London, W. C, 15 November 1910. 
 Your petition, cogent in itself, is already supported by so 
 many and such distinguished scholars that I feel any additional 
 testimony is almost superfluous. I however gladly write to say 
 that I should learn with the greatest satisfaction that the 
 means had some way been found for getting a substantial 
 grant in the cause of research and exploration in Asia 
 Minor. Without enlarging on the important additions to 
 archaeology and history that may be confidently looked for 
 from an endowed and systematized exploration of this pro- 
 foundly interesting country, I may at least remark that clas- 
 sical, Byzantine, and mediaeval Numismatics studies that 
 have so many points of contact with archaeology and history 
 would have much to gain both directly and indirectly. 
 
 (Signed) WARWICK WROTH. 
 
 Endorsement of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic 
 
 Studies. 
 
 12 Canterbury Road, Oxford. 
 
 As President of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic 
 Studies, I have been requested by the Council of the Society to 
 write to you to express the great interest with which they have 
 heard that there is a possibility that funds may be found where- 
 ivith to enable Dr. Sterrett and other explorers to make a care- 
 ful geographical and historical survey of Asia Minor. 
 
 Members of our Society such as Sir Wm. Ramsay, Mr. Ho- 
 
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 garth, Mr. J. G. C. Anderson, Mr. Munro, Mr. Paton and others 
 have during the last twenty years travelled much in Asia 
 Minor, and done much to bring to light trade-routes and his- 
 toric monuments. Their great difficulty has been want of funds 
 and equipment, and the disturbed state of the country, which 
 has compelled them to move rapidly and work quickly. 
 
 It would be an enormous gain to geography, history and 
 archaeology if work of a more deliberate and complete kind 
 could be done in the country, and a more complete survey of it 
 made than has yet been possible. 
 
 I understand that Sir Wm. Ramsay and Mr. Hogarth have 
 already written to you in favor of the proposed exploration; 
 the Society wishes to endorse their views. It would be a great 
 satisfaction to us if we could in any way cooperate with you so 
 far as our very limited resources will allow. The work is cer- 
 tainly one which will require much time and expenditure ; and 
 we should be very glad to hear that you are able to endow it 
 liberally. (Signed) PERCY GARDNER, 
 
 President of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. 
 
 Endorsement of the Imperial German Archaeological Institute. 
 
 (Translation.) University of Berlin. 
 
 An opinion is asked for in regard to Mr. Sterrett's plan for 
 archaeological researches in the Levant. 
 
 I sent the document first to Dr. Wiegand, Director in the 
 Royal Prussian Museums with residence in Constantinople, as 
 being the man among my countrymen at the moment especially 
 well versed in the question at issue. He has sent me the follow- 
 ing expression of opinion. Mr. Puchstein, the General-Secre- 
 tary of the Imperial German Archaeological Institute, and I 
 declare that we agree with the contents of that letter. (See 
 next letter.) 
 
 I recognize in this exchange of views the beginning of an un- 
 dertaking based on mutual agreement that promises well for 
 the proposed investigations. (Signed) CONZE, 
 
 Mitglied der Centraldirektion des Kais. Deutschen Archaeo- 
 logisch^n Instituts. 
 
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 (Translation.) Constantinople. 
 
 Mr. Sterrett is quite correct in feeling and in saying that a 
 given fixed Province must be the basis of a systematic explora- 
 tion of Asia Minor. That Province must first be mapped and 
 thoroughly explored for everything above ground, so that the 
 systematic excavation of suitable sites may follow. But these 
 excavations must present an exhaustive picture of the entire 
 city and must be much more thorough than were the excava- 
 tions of Assos, where no private house, and not even the im- 
 mediate neighborhood of the principal temple, was entirely 
 excavated. Every Province, after having been explored in this 
 way, should receive a special publication, and the principle 
 should be firmly fixed that no new Province is to be undertaken 
 until the publication of the preceding Province is put upon the 
 book market in a complete shape. 
 
 To judge from the whole tried past of Mr. Sterrett I believe 
 that Cilicia is the Province to begin with. For the west of Asia 
 Minor is in good hands ; in general it forms the sphere of inter- 
 est of Germany and Austria, and Cecil Smith is thinking of 
 Colophon and neighborhood for his investigations. We are 
 about to arrange with Austria for the mapping of the whole of 
 Ionia, and I believe that some day something similar will be 
 done for Caria, with Miletus as point of departure. But the 
 east and the south of Asia ]\Iinor offer the richest field to our 
 American colleagues ; so does Syria, where, however, one should 
 work in agreement with the plans of Puchstein, and where one 
 could achieve especially fruitful results. 
 
 Before everything else thoroughgoing work should be done 
 in each Province. Rapid journeys have no longer a general 
 scientific value. 
 
 In the matter of surface research work a splendid task would 
 be a survey of all the Christian monuments of Syria or Asia 
 Minor, for they are threatened with destruction in the most hor- 
 rible way, and the matter is very pressing and very well worth 
 doing. I can suggest it all the more earnestly and warmly, be- 
 cause, up to the present, there is no likelihood that any one else 
 will supply the means wherewith to rescue in a worthy manner, 
 
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 at least in pictured restoration, those witnesses of Christian 
 civilization in Asia Minor. By such a work an enlightened 
 institution would render a most invaluable service to the civ- 
 ilization of the Orient in the middle ages, and more especially if 
 the magnificent monuments of Islam, for instance in Konia 
 (Iconium) and Sivas are included. 
 
 (Signed) WIEGAND, 
 Director in the Eoyal Prussian Museums with Residence in 
 Constantinople. 
 
 Endorsement of French Museums. 
 
 Direction des Musees Nationaux, 
 (Translation.) Palais du Louvre, Paris, 12, XI, 1910. 
 
 The thorough and complete investigation of what is above 
 and below the surface of the ground in Asia Minor will be for 
 science the enterprise the most fruitful of results; for the gov- 
 ernment, or the learned body, that would devote means sufficient 
 for the task, one of the most glorious enterprises that could be 
 conceived of. All our beginnings are there : those of the ancient 
 civilization and those of the Christian civilization. In that field 
 where the harvest will be so splendid America has already 
 blazed its way and turned its furrow. Ramsay, Sitlington Ster- 
 rett, their companions and their rivals, have already shown 
 themselves to be travellers as bold and indefatigable as keen- 
 sighted; scholars as learned as acute and discerning; as prompt 
 in publishing their documents as skilful in discovering them. 
 The w^orkmen are ready ; they are experienced, they are always 
 eager, and their plan of campaign has already been outlined. 
 To set out they await but a signal and a viaticum. I wish with 
 all the ardor aroused by my interest in the advancement of 
 science that both may be given to them. 
 
 (Signed) T. HOMOLLE, 
 
 Directeur honoraire de 1' Bcole, francaise d' Athenes, Direc- 
 teur des Musees Nationaux et de T Ecole du Louvre, Membre 
 de r Academic des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres et de I'Acade- 
 mie des Beaux Arts. 
 
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 Direction des Musees Nationaux, 
 (Translation.) Palais du Louvre, Paris, 12 Novembre, 1910. 
 
 The methodical exploration of Asia Minor is an enterprise of 
 the very highest importance for the science of archaeology. 
 With reference to the studies in which I am especially inter- 
 ested, I can say that exhaustive excavations in Cappadocia and 
 throughout the entire extent of the ancient Hittite empire, as 
 well as excavations and researches in the necropoleis of Sardes 
 and Miletus, will undoubtedly help to solve many historical 
 problems and will add materially to our actual knowledge and 
 to the history of art. 
 
 (Signed) E. POTTIER, 
 
 Membre de V Institut, Conservateur au Musee du Louvre. 
 
 Direction des Musees Nationaux, 
 
 (Translation.) Palais du Louvre, Paris, 25 Novembre 1910. 
 
 I venture to believe that American wealth will provide the 
 means for the furthering of the scientific exploration ot 
 Asia Minor and Syria, an exploration so necessary, and one 
 whose interest is patent to every enlightened man. At present 
 the most important sites for excavation are being pillaged by 
 natives, whereas research must be methodical and must always 
 be made in the interest of science. The real history of peoples, 
 the history of provinces and cities, the history of religions and 
 beliefs, the history of institutions and morals, will all be bene- 
 fited thereby in a broad and effectual manner. The scholars of 
 all nations will unite under the aegis of the United States in a 
 common effort to bring this grand work to fruition. It must be 
 conducted to a finish and without break; under a director like 
 Professor Sterrett it will surely be successful. 
 
 (Signed) A. H^RON DE VILLEFOSSE, 
 
 Membre de 1' Institut; Conservateur au Musee du Louvre; 
 Directeur a 1' :ficole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. 
 
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 Musee de Saint Germain (Seine-et-Oise), 
 10, Nov. 1910. 
 
 The interior of Asia Minor is now opening to European civili- 
 zation and activity. That is both a boon and a danger. The 
 archaeologist must save what the contractor of roads, railways, 
 and buildings is ready to smash or to conceal. Both above and 
 below the surface of the ground in that vast privileged country- 
 there are treasures of history, for the loss of which no develop- 
 ment of prosperity could compensate. So the hour has come for 
 a thorough and methodical exploration; for such a work men 
 and funds are wanted.- There are few men more qualified than 
 Prof. Sterrett; all those who have studied Asia Minor are 
 agreed about that. It is devoutly to be hoped that a part of the 
 large contemplated donation may enable him and his helpmates 
 to perform a most useful and urgent task. The whole of our 
 intellectual and moral wealth is derived, directly or indirectly, 
 from Aryan and Semitic Asia Minor. The civilized world would 
 applaud, if some fraction of great material wealth were em- 
 ployed to enlarge our knowledge of the common fatherland. 
 (Signed) SALOMON REINACH, 
 
 Conservateur du Musee, Professeur a V Ecole du Louvre; 
 Membre de 1' Institut; Excavator of Myrina; Writer. 
 
 Bibliotheque Nationale, 
 Department des Manuscrits, 
 (Translation.) Paris, le 12 Nov. 1910. 
 
 Many archaeologists have journeyed in Asia Minor; Mr. 
 Ramsay has made many magnificent discoveries there ; but it is 
 still the promised land for archaeologists. Only to speak of one 
 matter not particularly well known, it is from Asia Minor that 
 have come all the magnificent manuscripts in gold letters on 
 purple parchment, of which w^e have more or less considerable 
 fragments, that bear witness to the richness of the Churches of 
 Asia in the time of Justinian. The Codex Sinopensis, so fortu- 
 nately found ten years ago, is a fresh proof of that fact, along 
 with the discovery of the Petropolitanus, found thirty years ago 
 in the neighborhood of Caesarea of Cappadocia. 
 
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 I do not doubt that numerous discoveries of every kind will 
 reward the labors of the explorers, and I wish I could accom- 
 pany you in a scientific journey for which you are so well pre- 
 pared. (Signed) H. OMONT, 
 
 Conservateur des Manuscrits; Membre de 1' Institut. 
 
 Endorsement of the Imperial Austrian Archaeological Institute. 
 
 University of Vienna, 
 (Translation.) Wien, am 2 November 1910. 
 
 Asia Minor, throughout antiquity entire the most important 
 connecting link between the civilizations of the Orient and the 
 Occident, to-day in spots not even satisfactorily mapped, 
 promises abundant returns in its every part; only it demands 
 effort so vast that human energy will be taxed to the utmost for 
 decades to come. But the gain, which in Asia Minor comes from 
 every bold investment, is so immediate and of such vast histori- 
 cal importance that results of equal value could hardly be at- 
 tained by archaeological investigations in any other quarter. 
 
 Accordingly, when it was proposed that Austria should take 
 a part in the rivalry of the nations for the monumental (and 
 other) relics of ancient Greek civilization, Otto Benndorf, with 
 his goal ever in mind, directed his chief attention to the ex- 
 ploitation of Asia Minor, and from the time of the first expedi- 
 tion in 1887, which led to the discovery of the mausoleum of 
 Gjolbaschi-Trysa and to the educating of a staff of trained 
 workers, he labored unceasingly, in numerous undertakings, to 
 accomplish the task he had set before himself. The beginning 
 thus made in south-western Asia Minor was encouraged in most 
 welcome fashion by the expedition carried out by Count Karl 
 Lanckoronski. 
 
 A subvention from His Highness the reigning Prince Johann 
 II von Liechtenstein enabled the Imperial Academy of Sciences 
 to undertake as a special task a Corpus of the Inscriptions of 
 Asia Minor. With this in view systematical journeys were 
 made, first in the south-western and southern, and then in the 
 western provinces, and the results were published in prelimi- 
 nary reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. 
 
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 The other Austrian undertakings on the soil of Asia Minor, 
 in particular the excavations at Ephesus, passed in 1898 into the 
 control of the Imperial Austrian Archaeological Institute, 
 which, in pursuance of a tradition now more than three decades 
 old, pays especial attention to them and for that purpose main- 
 tains its own Secretariate in Smyrna. 
 
 The enterprises undertaken by Austrian scholars form [for 
 that matter] but a comparatively small bit of work, when we 
 think of the superabundance of enterprises which Asia Minor, 
 with its sheerly inexhaustible number of seats of culture, offers 
 to us, and for that reason we should rejoice exceedingly, if you 
 could succeed in bringing the exploration of Asia Minor into 
 the sphere of interest and action of a homogeneous and perma- 
 nent institution created by the extraordinary munificence of 
 one of your great Promoters of Civilization. ^Ye believe that 
 it will be possible to reach a mutual understanding in all ques- 
 tions in which your new undertaking overlaps into the terri- 
 tory in which we have hitherto been working, and in particular 
 we hope that your extensive investigations will make valuable 
 additions to our collection of inscriptions from Asia Minor. If 
 by reason of our experience in the Orient, now covering many 
 years, we can in any way aid the undertaking inaugurated by 
 you, it will give us pleasure to render such aid, and we should 
 be particularly rejoiced, if it could be possible for both parties 
 to unite their scientific forces in a common work that has a 
 common goal in view. 
 
 (Signed) EMIL KEISCH. 
 
 Endorsement of German Universities. 
 
 (Translation.) University of Berlin. 
 
 Every archaeologist who understands the situation will ar- 
 dently desire to further to the best of his ability a scheme at 
 once so important and so well worked out, and to ask for its 
 realization, and so I venture to address you in order to support 
 the petition in the warmest manner and to beg that the subven- 
 tion asked for be granted. 
 
 For most of the immense territory of the peninsula of Asia 
 
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 Minor we have hardly got bej^ond a superficial reconnoissance, 
 in which what lay in the way was found and published. Even 
 the maps, as pointed out at length by Sterrett, are wholly un- 
 satisfactory and whole regions are still terra incognita. And 
 yet Asia Minor harbors numerous important problems that can 
 only be solved by a systematic exploration conducted according 
 to a concerted plan. In the first place the complicated ques- 
 tions of the more ancient ethnography of Asia Minor must be 
 
 answered The recent discoveries in Boghaz-kioi have 
 
 shown how immeasurably great are the discoveries that may 
 be made, and it was these discoveries that led to the exhaustive 
 investigation of this great site. 
 
 Another enterprise is the discovery and scientific description 
 of the monuments of the ancient native art of which the rock- cut 
 tombs of Paphlagonia and Phrygia are known, partially at least, 
 whereas very much still remains to be done for Lydia, and with- 
 out doubt even the groups of monuments mentioned will be very 
 considerably augmented (and this is true of those of Cilicia and 
 Cappadocia). 
 
 But the exploration of Asia Minor for the Hellenistic period is 
 of no less importance. As yet we have only the most meagre 
 information in regard to the organization of the Seleucid king- 
 dom, the development of municipal government, the spread of 
 Greek culture and the assimilation of the native nationalities by 
 Hellenism, and what information we have is based in the main 
 on isolated inscriptions which are of the greatest importance ; it 
 may be assumed with certainty that this material will be in- 
 creased very greatly. Connected therewith are the monuments 
 of the Pergamenian and Roman period, in which the Hellenistic 
 civilization in Asia Minor attained to its fullest development. 
 And this civilization has the greatest signficance for the under- 
 standing of THE EARLY CHRISTIAN PERIOD. For, as is 
 well known, no country was more important for the spread and 
 internal development of Christianity in the first centuries than 
 was Asia Minor, and no country received the new religion with 
 such eagerness; apart from the Nile-valley only the Roman 
 Province of Africa can be compared with it. Asia Minor main- 
 
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 tained this leading role throughout the whole long epoch of the 
 Byzantine empire, whose real centre lay entirely in Asia Minor. 
 And in the Byzantine period in Asia Minor a series of the most 
 weighty problems in the history of civilization await their solu- 
 tion, especially in the province of the development of the Orien- 
 tal-Byzantine Art. 
 
 It need hardly be said that what is true of Asia Minor is also 
 in the main, true of the provinces of Syria. For the Hellenistic 
 period, for the history of the Seleucid empire, and for the begin- 
 nings of Christianity the problems are the same as in Asia Mi- 
 nor. But the scientific exploitation of Syria is far behind that 
 of Asia Minor. I need only point out here that of the numerous 
 mounds of debris that covers the ancient cities, and royal seats 
 of Northern Syria, on the Amanus, Sendjirli alone has been in- 
 vestigated up to the present time, while the ruins of Carchemish 
 (Djerabis) that lie on the surface, are insufficiently known; the 
 same is true of the cities of the imperial times, Baalbekk and 
 Palmyra. Similar problems exist everywhere in the whole 
 country (Syria), and they need not be enumerated separately. 
 
 The project which Professor Sterrett has developed attempts 
 to attack in a most comprehensive and systematic way the prob- 
 lems that I have briefly outlined. It is evident that for the exe- 
 cution of his plan a long series of years and large and certain 
 resources are necessary ; without such certainty it could not 
 even be undertaken. But it is a programme with which hardly 
 any other one can vie in respect to importance for the most 
 varied branches of science. For that reason this Project, as 
 outlined, is worthy, if any scheme is worthy. That Professor 
 Sterrett is fitted to lead such an expedition has been proved by 
 his past work, and it is confirmed afresh by the present projec;t. 
 
 (Signed) DR. EDUARD MEYER, 
 
 Professor an der Universitat Berlin, Mitglied der Koniglich- 
 preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 
 
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 (Translation.) University of Berlin. 
 
 It is with lively interest that I have heard that a man as tried 
 and experienced as Mr. J. R. S. Sterrett can place his ability 
 and his powers of organization at the service of an undertaking 
 looking to the exploration of Asia Minor on a large scale. As 
 one who has an especially warm interest in antiquities and in- 
 scriptions I should welcome gladly such an undertaking. The 
 practical sense of the explorer mentioned will see to it that at- 
 tainable goals will be striven for and that the problems under- 
 taken will be solved. The reprehensible maxim ''in magnis 
 voluisse satis" has done much harm to science ; an archaeological 
 undertaking, and more particularly, an excavation, is not to be 
 judged by the "voluisse," nor even by the ''finds," but exclu- 
 sively by the publication. But precisely in that matter the name 
 of Sterrett would seem to guarantee that the Publication will be 
 
 completed Another point must be regarded as 
 
 a matter of course, namely, an agreement with those who are 
 already in Asia Minor with the Austrians (Tituli Asiae Mi- 
 noris), the Berlin Museum (that is, with Dr. Th. Wiegand, Con- 
 stantinople), Philippson (Geological Exploration of Western 
 Asia Minor). An association with the experienced leaders of 
 these undertakings will make the expedition doubly attractive. 
 
 All that can be done for the improvement of the map will be 
 welcomed with joy. 
 
 But the best thing that I can wish is a good and a rich field 
 for excavations. Incidentally I remark that my private long- 
 ings are directed more to the Greeks than to the Barbarians, 
 more to the historical period than to the Origines, but still every 
 really scientific mind must welcome every scientific discovery, a 
 philologist must welcome the discovery of a new bug, and it is 
 to be hoped that the scientist would welcome the discovery of a 
 new letter from Alexander the Great. 
 
 (Signed) FREIHERR HILLER VON GAERTRINGEN, 
 
 Professor in the University of Berlin ; Excavator of Thera. 
 
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 (Translation.) University of Berlin. 
 
 It has come to our knowledge that Professor Sterrett of Cor- 
 nell University has in view to ask for financial support to en- 
 able him to carry on a work of research in Asia Minor, and 
 that it is a matter of importance for him to have the opinion of 
 foreign experts. Accordingly we shall give expression briefly 
 to our views in regard to the scientific questions ; the personality 
 of Mr. Sterrett is so tried that it needs no recommendation. On 
 the western sea-board of Asia Minor almost all enlightened na- 
 tions have important undertakings, some of which have been 
 completed, while with others they will be engaged for years to 
 come. America undertook the splendid task of excavating the 
 provincial city of Assos, and then dropped it. In the interior, 
 on the contrary, in spite of many travels, made more particu- 
 larly by Sir William Ramsay, the investigation of the monu- 
 ments that are above the ground has not been carried out. 
 Thanks, particularly to the building of railways, the country is 
 being settled more and more, and destruction follows in its 
 wake. On the other hand in the last decades scholars have been 
 paying more and more attention to the pre-christian and to the 
 early Christian periods, and also to the Byzantine and Seljukian 
 periods. Accordingly, it is a very great and a very urgent un- 
 dertaking to save for science all that is still above ground, build- 
 ings, sculptures, paintings, inscriptions, before it be too late. 
 Aye, surface research w^ork must be regarded as more important 
 than any excavation of a site that is not threatened by destruc- 
 tion because used as a quarry for building material. But on the 
 other hand, that very many seats of ancient civilization in the 
 interior of Asia Minor are in need of systematic excavation 
 becomes more patent every day, now that the historical im- 
 portance of the pre-hellenic peoples of Cappadocia and Cilicia 
 has been proven from the Oriental documents and latterly from 
 discoveries in Asia Minor itself. 
 
 It is not our business to give advice in regard to the combina- 
 tion of excavations and surface research, or in regard to the 
 limits of this or that kind of investigation. But it is our opinion 
 that the interior of Asia Minor is a region where large resources 
 
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 and that too for a long period of time are necessary in order to 
 investigate and to preserve historical monuments of universal 
 importance, and there can hardly be a difference of opinion on 
 that subject among scholars the world over. The promoters 
 of the plan may be sure that they will render a great service to 
 historical science in the widest sense, if they adopt and carry 
 out the plans of Mr. Sterrett. 
 
 (Signed) AD. ERMAN, 
 
 KEKULE VON STRADONITZ, 
 
 A. HARNACK, 
 
 ULRICH VON WILAMOWITZ- 
 MOELLENDORFF, 
 
 OTTO HIRSCHFELD. 
 In regard to this utterance of these scholars (including the 
 letters from the other Professors of the University of Berlin) 
 Sir William Ramsay writes : 
 
 My Dear Sterrett : 
 
 You could not have a stronger support than this. 
 
 I find that people refrain from supporting (your) scheme, lest 
 it should interfere with me ; so I must explain (to them) that I 
 am in hearty sympathy. 
 
 (Signed) W. M. RAMSAY. 
 
 University of Berlin, 
 General-Verwaltung der Koniglichen Museen. 
 Kgl. Museum fur Volkerkunde. 
 Berlin, den 22 August, 1910. 
 
 I hasten to congratulate you on the energetic step you are 
 taking, and I wish you a full measure of success. In particular 
 I could not make use of fitter words than those used by Erman, 
 Kekule, Harnack, v. Wilamowitz, and Hirschfeld. There is in- 
 deed no doubt that surface research is very urgent both in 
 Anatolia and Syria, for each day brings with it the destruction 
 of important material. I really do not know how an enlight- 
 ened institution could invest money in a more useful way than 
 in surface research in Western Asia. 
 
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 If a large sum could be granted, I could wish that you might 
 excavate Tell Neb-u-mind, the ancient Kadesh on the Orontes 
 River, the famous capital of the Hittites in the times of Rameses 
 II. I know no better place in Western Asia. It would be an un- 
 dertaking demanding from thirty to forty years for its accom- 
 plishment and it would require at the very least from $20,000 to 
 $25,000 each year, but the results would certainly be most 
 glorious, and would probably cast into the shade all other great 
 excavations in the Orient. 
 
 (Signed) PROF. VON LUSCHAN. 
 
 (Translation.) University of Berlin, 26 Sept. 1910. 
 
 An exploration on such a scale is sure to yield rich results of 
 the most various kinds. It must be placed on a firm basis, and 
 must not be limited to two or three seasons, but go on regularly 
 year after year, with such means, and according to such meth- 
 ods, as place and circumstances demand, much in the same way 
 as our Deutsche Orientgesellschaft works in Assyria and Babyl- 
 onia. If you succeed in carrying out your plan, you will open 
 a new epoch for our knowledge of antiquity. 
 
 ED. SACHAU. 
 
 University of Berlin. 
 (Translation.) Berlin, den 27 August 1910. 
 
 I must call attention to the tremendous importance of the pro- 
 posed undertaking, both from the point of view of science and 
 of the history of civilization. If an endowed institution 
 should make a portion of its means available for archaeological 
 research in Asia Minor and Syria, it would contribute thereby 
 not merely to the lifting of the veil from a past that leads us 
 back to the cradle of mankind, but it would also bring a stream 
 of light and civilization to a belated and half-petrified world 
 that is now for the first time beginning to be receptive of the 
 enlightened ideals of the Occident. In this respect, too, the 
 realization of the proposed plan would enable us to gain a broad 
 and a blessed outlook into the future. 
 
 (Signed) PROFESSOR SCHIEMANN, 
 Professor of History in the University of Berlin. 
 
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 University of Berlin. 
 (Translation.) am Oct. 1910. 
 
 For the success of a great undertaking, as planned by Pro- 
 fessor Sterrett, three things are necessary: 1. the plan must be 
 good, 2. the man who is to execute it must be good, 3. the money 
 for its execution must be abundant. When all these good 
 things are combined, as they are in the present case, great 
 things may be hoped for. 
 
 (Signed) H. DIELS. 
 
 University of Berlin, 
 (Translation.) Berlin, d. 28 Oktober 1910. 
 
 I subscribe most heartily to the emphatic approval given to 
 the plan by certain Professors of the University of Berlin. 
 (Signed) PROFESSOR DR. ERICH PREUNER. 
 
 University of Berlin, 
 Dec. 16, 1910. 
 I am cpite certain that the highly cultured Americans of 
 great wealth will recognize the great blessing which the under- 
 taking planned by Professor Sterrett and Sir W. M. Ramsay 
 will bring to science and to the knowledge of the world's cul- 
 ture. There is in my opinion no doubt that such an expedition, 
 if furnished with sufficient means, will make discoveries that 
 will astonish the entire cultured world. 
 
 (Signed) EDUARD NORDEN. 
 
 Embassy of the United States of America, 
 
 Berlin, August 30, 1910. 
 After the favorable testimony regarding your proposal offered 
 by men so highly qualified to give an opinion as Sir William 
 Ramsay and the Professors of the University of Berlin I feel 
 that any word from me would almost seem impertinent ; but I 
 trust it will not seem inappropriate for me to say that you could 
 not have higher approval in Germany than that contained in the 
 letters printed in your pamphlet. 
 
 (Signed) DAVID J. HILL. 
 
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 University of Jena, 
 (Translation.) Jena, 31 October 1910. 
 
 Professor Sterrett's magnificent plan for a systematical ex- 
 ploration of Asia Minor and Northern Syria can be sure of the 
 warmest welcome by all who have a scientific interest in the 
 fortunes of Asia Minor. Their number is exceedingly large. 
 The great historical importance of this highway of the nations 
 becomes ever clearer, for it is in Asia Minor that the weightiest 
 problems of ancient, oriental and classical history meet and 
 cross; it is in Asia Minor that we are continually discovering 
 new strata of the many civilizations that have swept over it; 
 it is the civilization of Asia Minor that has radiated cultural 
 influences even beyond the limits of antiquity. But in spite of 
 numerous journeys and excavations, there is an immeasurably 
 wide and highly promising field in which work has hardly been 
 begun. And the gigantic undertaking can be accomplished and 
 all treasures brought to light only by a systematic research that 
 exploits the country historically and archaeologically step by 
 step and in every direction, and for which sufficient means have 
 been guaranteed for a long period of time. The personality of 
 J. R. S. Sterrett, who is himself distinguished as a scientific 
 worker and traveller, makes it certain that the plan will be 
 carried out in a really scientific way. It is most highly desirable- 
 that the subvention asked for be granted. 
 
 (Signed) WALTHER JUDEICH, 
 BOTHO GRAEF, 
 B. DELBRUCK, 
 W. STAERK, 
 
 A. UNGNAD, 
 
 H. LIETZMANN, 
 E. DIEHL, 
 W. LIEBENAM, 
 DR. GEORG GOTZ, 
 R. HIRZEL, 
 EUGEN WILHELM, 
 
 B. PICK. 
 
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 Munzkabinett des Herzoglichen Hauses, 
 (Translation.) Gotha, 1 Septemb. 1910. 
 
 The most eminent archaeologists of all countries have borne 
 abundant testimony to the enormous gains that mankind at 
 large would reap for the knowledge of its earliest history from 
 the proposed undertaking, and I can only agree with what they 
 have said. But they have not mentioned the department of 
 ^greatest interest to me, and so I may point out that a systematic 
 exploration of Asia Minor and Syria would probably bring re- 
 sults of the greatest importance for Numismatics. I may men- 
 tion the fact that coined money, so indispensable to-day, was in- 
 vented in Asia Minor. Excavations will disclose to us what 
 kinds of money were in use before the invention of coined money 
 and how the Babylonian standard came to Europe through Asia 
 Minor and Syria ; it will be possible to assign to special regions 
 the numerous kinds of most ancient coins of unknown proveni- 
 ence by observing the frequency of their recurrence, and there- 
 by we should be able to solve the old problem as to whether the 
 Greeks or the Lydians invented coined money. More than that, 
 the store of ancient coins of later date and known provenience 
 would be greatly increased, and, as heretofore, these coins 
 would shed fresh light on the history, the governmental ad- 
 ministration, and the religion of cities and countries. It is 
 therefore to be desired that in the expeditions of the future at 
 least some of the members should be instructed to acquire in 
 advance a knowledge of Numismatics, in order that the proper 
 attention may be paid to coins, for these small objects often 
 teach us more than larger ones. 
 
 Scholars are in unanimous agreement that the leadership of 
 so great and many-sided an undertaking could not be given to 
 any one with more appropriateness than to Professor Sterrett. 
 My agreement therewith would be unnecessary, but for the fact 
 that I am in a position to bring into the field the name of one 
 whose voice, though mute in the grave, is still authoritative. 
 When Professor Sterrett was living in Berlin after his return 
 from the Wolfe Expedition, at the request of Theodor Momm- 
 sen I helped him work up for the Supplementa of the Corpus 
 
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 Inscriptionum Latinarum the Latin inscriptions collected by 
 him on his two great journeys. I remember how pleasant and 
 instructive this work with Professor Sterrett was to me, and 
 I know the respect which Professor Mommsen entertained for 
 the achievements of the American scholar, and how he admired 
 the endurance displayed on those difficult journeys. If Momm- 
 sen were alive to-day he would without doubt greet the pro- 
 posed undertaking with the greatest joy and support it. 
 
 If the undertaking can be carried out in the fullest extent 
 planned by Professor Sterrett, it will bring the greatest honor 
 to America and to those who bring the plan to fruition. 
 
 There are still people in all European countries who are out- 
 raged because monuments of art and antiquity are wandering 
 to America, and who feel that the Americans have no right to 
 own such things. These people would be appeased and would 
 recognize the fact that American collections have equal rights 
 with European collections, if they could learn from the under- 
 taking of so tremendous a scientific task that, in this line too, 
 America knows, not only how to TAKE, but also how to GIVE. 
 
 (Signed) DR. BEHRENDT PICK, 
 
 Direktor des Miinzkabinetts ; Professor der Numismatik an 
 der Universitat Jena. Hon. Fellow of the Royal Numismatic 
 Society of London, etc. 
 
 University of Munich, 
 (Translation.) Miinchen, 3 Nov. 1910. 
 
 Professor Sterrett 's plan for an exhaustive scientific explora- 
 tion of Asia Minor and Syria seems to us to deserve every con- 
 ceivable encouragement. By his former work and journeys 
 Professor Sterrett has won the right to be regarded as the 
 natural leader of such an expedition. His clearly stated plan to 
 undertake an exhaustive exploration of every separate province, 
 to be inaugurated by journeys and excavations, to be continued 
 for a long period of time, to be conducted in friendly coopera- 
 tion with the work of other nations and in concert with its 
 leaders, meets with our complete approbation. Just in pro- 
 
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 portion as the modern era, with its easy means of intercom- 
 munication, is taking rapid possession of the ancient home of 
 civilization, now but just awaking from its long sleep, just so 
 imperative becomes the necessity for a careful historical ex- 
 ploration, which takes within its purview and saves from de- 
 struction all the remains of antiquity. Nothing short of an 
 organization that is to live for a long time and that has large 
 means at its command can achieve really lasting results in this 
 field. By endowing the undertaking liberally, an institution or 
 a man will be doing a service to the knowledge of the history of 
 human civilization that cannot easily be valued highly enough. 
 
 (Signed) FR. VOLLMER, 
 
 FR. W. FREIHERR v. BISSING, 
 
 A. REHM, 
 
 A. HEISENBERG, 
 
 F. v. REBER, 
 
 E. LOMMATZSCH, 
 
 E. DRERUP, 
 
 W. OTTO, 
 
 PAUL WOLTERS, 
 
 0. CRUSIUS, 
 
 1. V. MULLER, 
 ROBERT POHLMANN, 
 C. WEYMAN. 
 
 University of Munich. 
 (Translation.) Redaktion der Byzantinischen Zeitschrift. 
 
 I am firmly convinced that the realization of the magnificent 
 project would be a boon to science in an especially high degree, 
 and the branches which I represent in particular, namely, the 
 investigation of the Early Christian and Byzantine periods of 
 history in Asia Minor, would be largely benefited thereby. If an 
 American institution could supply the means for the com- 
 plete realization and execution of the project worked out by so 
 distinguished an expert as J. R. S. Sterrett, it would do a tre- 
 mendous and a lasting service to science, and would add a new 
 
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 and an imperishable leaf to America's crown won in the prov- 
 ince of humanity's idealism. 
 
 (Signed) K. KRUMBACHER. 
 Redakteur der Byz. Zeitschrift; o. Professor an der Univer- 
 sitat Miinchen; Mitglied der k. bayr. Akademie der Wiss. ; 
 korresp. Mitglied der Akademien in Paris, London, Wien, 
 Petersburg, u. s. w. (Recently deceased). 
 
 University of Gottingen, 
 (Translation.) Gottingen, 18 September 1910. 
 
 I can only concur, with the deepest conviction, in the prin- 
 ciples and views laid dow^n by you in your Outline of a Plan 
 for Archaeological Research, etc., and my colleagues whose 
 names are subscribed hereto agree with me in this view. Sys- 
 tematic research in the interior of Asia Minor is certainly one 
 of the most urgent and most promising tasks of historical sci- 
 ence in its widest sense. We join the representative scholars 
 consulted by you in the heart felt wish that the means may be 
 made available for this purpose, and we agree with them in 
 their confidence in you as the leader of the great undertaking. 
 
 In regard to its conduct we beg leave to make the following 
 remarks: 1. The work should be undertaken province by 
 province, as you yourself point out. 2. Excavations must be 
 undertaken after a thorough-going search for everything that 
 is still above the ground. Sir William Ramsay is correct in his 
 statement that excavations alone can make real and substantial 
 additions to our knowledge. It is true that every systemati- 
 cally undertaken and properly conducted excavation guaran- 
 tees important results, even though these results are often, 
 perhaps are usually, different from what was expected. 3. From 
 the outset a part of the programme must be an exhaustive and 
 a speedy publication of the results. 4. For this purpose a per- 
 manent staff of scholars devoting themselves exclusively to this 
 work is necessary. 5. And it would be greatly to be desired, if, 
 in addition to this permanent staff, a number of young scholars, 
 chosen from the various nations, might be allowed to come in 
 
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 as transient workers, in order to help the good work along, and 
 in order at the same time to acquire the incomparable training 
 that must needs result from such cooperation. 
 
 May the entire plan soon be realized and be conducted to a 
 successful issue, that is our wish for you and for science. 
 (Signed) G. KORTE, 
 
 F. LEO, 
 
 P. WENDLAND, 
 
 G. BUSOLT, 
 M. POHLENZ, 
 K. SETHE. 
 
 University of Miinster. 
 (Translation.) Miinster i. W., den 16 Oktober, 1910. 
 
 The problems in Asia Minor that still await solution by mod- 
 ern science are so great that they demand the united effort of 
 all enlightened nations. The antiquities that are still extant 
 above ground, and in part even those that lie beneath the soil, 
 are threatened with annihilation because of the steadily increas- 
 ing development of the country, and for that reason the neces- 
 sity of rescuing them from destruction has become so impera- 
 tive that the slow work, alone possible with the modest means 
 hitherto available to European scholars, no longer suffices. 
 Therefore all scholars must rejoice at the hopeful prospect that 
 America may furnish to science the means wherewith to under- 
 take on a large scale this necessary work. This joy is all the 
 greater, because, along with the prospect of seeing the work 
 itself inaugurated, there comes the certainty that the man who 
 could have the enlightened wish to promote research so greatly, 
 will also find the right man, with the will and the ability, to 
 conduct the work, and that young scholars, not merely from 
 his native country, but from the world at large, will be found in 
 abundance, whose joy it will be to place themselves at his dis- 
 posal at all times. 
 
 (Signed) 0. SEECK, 
 
 W. KROLL, 
 
 PAUL CAUER, 
 
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 K. MUNSCHER, 
 P. E. SONNENBERG, 
 0. HOFFMANN, 
 F. KOEPP. 
 
 University of Leipzig, 
 (Translation.) Leipzig, 27 November 1910. 
 
 The undersigned Professors of all the sciences of the past, of 
 geography, of church history, and of the history of art, in the 
 University of Leipzig, endorse the petition of Professor Sterrett 
 with the greatest emphasis, and beg that his enlightened coun- 
 trymen may supply him with a staff of scholars and architects 
 and put it into his power to undertake at an early date and to 
 carry through with all the speed possible a thorough archae- 
 ological exploration of Asia Minor and Syria, by means of 
 journeys of investigation and excavation, for the whole field of 
 antiquity, including the early Christian period. 
 
 The importance and the urgency of such an undertaking for 
 all the sciences named above does not stand in need of proof, 
 in view of all that has already been said on the subject, nor 
 does Professor Sterrett 's eminent fitness to direct the great 
 undertaking. Professor Sterrett himself has clearly stated that 
 the work already begun by scholars of other nations in the same 
 wide field shall in no way be interfered with, because they are in 
 no sense antagonistic to his comprehensive plans. 
 (Signed) J. H. LIPSIUS, 
 
 FRANZ STUDNICZKA, 
 ULRICH WILCKEN, 
 ERICH BETHE, 
 R. HEINZE, ' 
 V. GARDTHAUSEN, 
 THEODOR SCHREIBER, 
 EDGAR MARTINI, 
 HEINRICH ZIMMERN, 
 GEORG STEINDORFF, 
 F. H. WEISSBACH, 
 JOSEPH PARTSCH, 
 ALB. HAUCK. 
 
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 University of Leipzig, 
 Arehaologisches Institut, Leipzig, Universitat, Albertimim 2. 
 (Translation.) den 28 August 1910. 
 
 The realization of the plan for an exhaustive exploration of 
 Asia Minor is of course for every archaeologist "a consumma- 
 tion devoutly to be wish'd. " In order to prove this in detail, I 
 should have to repeat what so many scholars, among them 
 Germans, have written to you with more or less exhaustiveness. 
 Even the natural limits of such an undertaking, demanded by 
 respect for the work of other nations already begun, have 
 already been pointed out, for instance, in the letter of Wiegand. 
 Therefore I may content myself with the emphatic statement of 
 my agreement with the unanimous wishes of scholars, and 
 with the expression of the hope that, with abundant means at 
 your command, you may return right soon and right often to 
 Anatolia, whence you have already brought to us so much that 
 is valuable. 
 
 (Signed) FRANZ STUDNICZKA, 
 
 Ord. Prof, der Archaeologie. 
 
 University of Konigsberg, 
 
 Translation.) Konigsberg i. Pr., den 12 Oktober 1910. 
 
 We welcome with joy Mr. J. R. S. Sterrett's plan for scien- 
 tific research and excavations in Asia Minor and Syria on a 
 large scale, and we feel justified in predicting that the expedi- 
 tion will be abundantly successful, both because, by his former 
 explorations, Mr. Sterrett has proved his fitness for the calling, 
 and because he has the cooperation of so excellent an expert on 
 Asia Minor as Sir William Ramsay. The regions in question 
 have all been explored merely on the surface or else not at all, 
 and they promise the richest results for the extension of our 
 knowledge not only in geography, but more particularly in all 
 branches of history, archaeology, and historical ethnography. 
 With our whole heart we wish for Mr. Sterrett the award of a 
 very large subvention so that he may be enabled to carry out 
 
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 his plan fully. For he cannot attain his lofty goal unless he be 
 supplied with money in abundance. Many scholars will be 
 greatly pleased, if a staff of natural scientists could accompany 
 the expedition. 
 
 (Signed) A. LUDAVICH, 
 P. ROST, 
 J. TOLKIEHN, 
 FRANZ RtJHL, 
 SCHULTHESS, 
 0. ROSSBACH, 
 R. SCHUBERT, 
 R. WUNSCH, 
 M. BRAUN. 
 
 University of Kiel, 
 (Translation.) Kiel, Nov. 23, 1910. 
 
 We hail Professor Sterrett's project with the keenest joy and 
 approval, because the scientific exploration of Asia Minor and 
 Syria belongs to the most urgent tasks confronting scholars, 
 and because the development of the country, now advancing 
 more rapidly, endangers the ancient monuments more and 
 more every year. What has been done hitherto in these coun- 
 tries by different nations guarantees that the research planned 
 by Sterrett will be conducted with a complete understanding of 
 the peculiarities of the country and with the accumulated ex- 
 perience of modern science. Sterrett himself is well known as 
 an admirable expert and successful explorer of Asia Minor and 
 in Sir William Ramsay he will have a tried and experienced 
 counsellor and helper. 
 
 If Sterrett's hopes are fulfilled, and if, in carrying out his 
 plan, exhaustive work is done province by province, and if the 
 surface research is extended to all kinds of monuments from 
 prehistorical to Christian and Mohammedan antiquities, and is 
 supplemented by exhaustive excavation of important sites, the 
 gain to the most varied branches of science will be immense. 
 
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 All nations will congratulate America with a full heart on such 
 a feat. 
 
 (Signed) BRUNO SAUER, 
 
 A. SCHONE, 
 
 E. BICKEL, 
 
 E. SUDHAUS, 
 
 C. A. VOLQUARDSEN, 
 
 F. JACOB Y, 
 GERHARD FICKER. 
 
 University of Freiburg in Breisgau. 
 (Translation.) Freiburg i. Br. 25 August 1910. 
 
 I do not hesitate to characterize the project as one of the 
 highest importance. Its realization will give all archaeologists, 
 historians, and geographers in the entire civilized world the 
 greatest satisfaction. . . . With very few exceptions the 
 lack of sufficient means has rendered scientific research in Asia 
 Minor and Northern Syria ineffective and unsatisfactory. . . 
 . . The map of the country is in a deplorable condition. 
 Whole regions, many square miles in extent, are still as un- 
 known as the interior of Africa. And those regions are not 
 primeval forests or deserts, either, but are found in a country 
 of an ancient civilization that conceals a wealth of treasures 
 dating from antiquity and of monuments illustrating its history, 
 and is still densely populated. 
 
 The monuments of antiquity in Asiatic Turkey are disappear- 
 ing every day more and more. It is high time that the enlight- 
 ened nations, whose very civilization had its origin, in a great 
 measure, in these countries, should unite in the earnest endeavor 
 to preserve and investigate the ruins and monuments of Asia 
 Minor and Syria. 
 
 (Signed) DR. ERNST FABRICIUS, 
 
 Professor der alten Geschichte a.d. Universitat Freiburg i. 
 Br. ; Mitglied der Centraldirektion des Archasologischen Insti- 
 tats ; Dirigent der Reichs-Limeskommission. 
 
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 University of Halle Wittenberg, 
 (Translation.) Halle (Saale) d. 20 Oktober 1910. 
 
 Professor Sterrett's plan for scientific research in Asia Minor 
 is drawn on broad and comprehensive lines. We welcome it 
 with great joy. The personality of Professor Sterrett gives 
 high guarantee that the undertaking will be conducted with 
 care and energy, and it promises to advance very greatly the 
 most divergent branches of historical knowledge, particularly 
 geography, ethnology, the science of classical and oriental an- 
 tiquity, the science of language, the history of art, the history 
 of the Church, etc. By granting the means for the realization 
 of this plan, service of exceeding importance to science will 
 have been performed. 
 
 (Signed) C. ROBERT, 
 
 G. WISSOWA, 
 OTTO KERN, 
 ALFRED PHILIPPSON, 
 A. GOLDSCHMIDT, 
 KARL PRAECHTER, 
 K. BROCKELMANN. 
 
 University of Halle, 
 (Translation.) Halle, den 7 September 1910. 
 
 The undertaking is important, it is rich in promise; it is 
 urgent; the moment chosen is as favorable as possible; the 
 plan has been conceived with extraordinary skill and with ex- 
 traordinary special knowledge; Dr. Sterrett, by reason of his 
 learning, his powers of observation, and his experience, is the 
 most suitable person conceivable for the task, the successful 
 accomplishment of which promises to bring new light to science 
 and to blaze new roads. 
 
 And so I can only beg most earnestly that Dr. Sterrett be sup- 
 plied with means in abundance for the accomplishment of his 
 admirable plan; for it concerns a matter in which the whole 
 scientific world is most keenly interested. 
 
 (Signed) CARL ROBERT. 
 
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 University of Breslau, 
 (Translation.) Breslau, im September 1910. 
 
 The proposed exploration of the soil of Asia Minor and Syria 
 promises limitless gains for our knowledge of pre-Christian and 
 early Christian civilization. We should like to call attention 
 particularly to Cilicia and Antioch along with Daphne. We 
 give expression to our firm conviction that a person or an in- 
 stitution could in no way do a greater service to the scien- 
 tific knowledge of the history of the civilization of mankind 
 than by granting the means for the execution of the plan of 
 Professor Sterrett. 
 
 (Signed) RICHARD FOERSTER, 
 
 GEORG KAUFMANN, 
 
 ALFRED GERCKE, 
 
 FRANZ SKUTSCH, 
 
 CONRAD CICHORIUS, 
 
 OTTO SCHRADER. 
 
 University of Heidelberg, 
 (Translation.) Heidelberg, 30 Dezember 1910. 
 
 The plan for an extensive work of research in Asia Minor 
 and Syria is of the greatest importance for historical, archae- 
 ological, and geographical studies in the widest sense, but more 
 particularly for the history of Prehellenic and Hellenic culture, 
 as Avell as of Christianity and Islam. The more imminent the 
 danger of the utter annihilation of the treasures that lie both 
 above and beneath the soil of Asia Minor, the more urgent and 
 imperative becomes the duty, while yet there is time, of saving 
 these invaluable records for the knowledge of the history of 
 civilization for millenniums. 
 
 The imdersigned believe that a service of the first magnitude 
 will be rendered to science by carrying Professor Sterrett 's 
 plan into execution. 
 
 Our colleague, Professor Schoell, who is at present absent in 
 Italy, writes that he agrees most heartily with this our endorse- 
 ment. 
 
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 (Signed) F. BOLL, 
 
 PROF. DR. BRANDT, 
 
 WILLE, 
 
 C. BEZOLD, 
 
 H. RANKE, 
 
 K. HAMPE, 
 
 J. WEISS, 
 
 G. UHLIG, 
 
 G. A. GERHARD, 
 
 DR. BARTHOLOMAE, 
 
 HETNER, 
 
 H. VON SCHUBERT, 
 
 DOMASCZEWSKI, 
 
 BEER. 
 
 University of Heidelberg, 
 (Translation.) Heidelberg, 26, xii, 1910. 
 
 I hope that Professor Sterrett's scientific plans may be pro- 
 moted by everybody and be completely successful. 
 (Signed) FR. SCHOELL. 
 
 University of Heidelberg. 
 
 I hear with the greatest pleasure that there will be some hope 
 of seeing a subvention granted for the furtherance of Profes- 
 sor Sterrett's plan for a general survey of the lesser 
 known parts of Asia Minor and other oriental countries im- 
 portant for our knowledge of history of mankind from the very 
 first beginning of historical times till the times of triumphing 
 Christianity. 
 
 I cannot but applaud as strongly as I can the excellent plan 
 of my colleague of Cornell and express my ardent wish that a 
 way may be found for carrying into effect what is certainly the 
 most heart-felt desire of every archaeologist. And there can be 
 no doubt but that Prof. Sterrett has more claim than anybody 
 else to do such a work. 
 
 (Signed) FRIEDRICH VON DUHN, 
 
 Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Heidel- 
 berg. 
 
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 University of Greifswald, 
 (Translation.) Greifswald, den 23 December 1910. 
 
 We welcome with the greatest joy Professor Sterrett's plan 
 for archaeological research in the interior of Asia Minor and 
 Syria. Every one who has ever travelled in Asia Minor knows 
 with what rapidity the very important records of ancient civili- 
 zations are being destroyed by the ignorance of the inhabitants, 
 and what immeasurable harm has already been done to science 
 because of it. We regard it as an imperative demand of science 
 that an end be put to this as soon as possible and as thoroughly 
 as possible. The name of Sterrett, high in repute in the schol- 
 arly world, gives us the assurance that narrow, special interests 
 will not be given preference, but that, as true historical sense 
 demands, equal attention will be paid to monuments of all 
 times and all civilizations. 
 
 (Signed) DR. ERICH PERNICE, 
 DR. ULMANN, 
 DR. BERNHEIM, 
 DR. WALTER OTTO, 
 KARL HOSIUS, 
 H. SCHONE. 
 
 University of Greifswald, 
 (Translation.) Greifswald, 22, xii, 10. 
 
 Professor Sterrett's project for research in Asia Minor and 
 Syria meets with my complete approval. For, who could be so 
 blind as to fail to see the many immense benefits which the real- 
 ization of his plan would bring to every branch of the science 
 of the past, to geography, and to the history of religion? 
 
 (Signed) C. HOSIUS. 
 
 University of Strassburg, 
 
 Strassburg, den 19 Dez, 1910. 
 Explorations and excavations in Asia Minor and in Syria 
 have become one of the most important and most urgent tasks 
 of Biblical, Classical, and Oriental archaeologists. Everybody 
 
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 familiar with the work done in those countries within the last 
 fifty years knows what wonderful results have been obtained 
 there, how milleniums of the history of mankind have been 
 elucidated: nations, languages, and civilizations whose memory 
 had vanished entirely have come to life again, and our knowl- 
 edge has been increased tremendously. On the other hand, 
 there is just at the present great danger that many invaluable 
 records of the past may be destroyed and be forever lost to 
 science, since railways are being traced all over the Ottoman 
 Empire in Asia, and since the building activity and the cultiva- 
 tion of the soil are growing rapidly. Professor Littmann, who 
 was a member of two American Archaeological Expeditions to 
 Syria, witnessed this progress himself: many a fine building, 
 many an important inscription which he had seen intact in 
 1899 he saw destroyed in 1904: the ruins had been preyed upon 
 by the natives and by railway-builders and been used as quar- 
 ries. 
 
 We, therefore, are thoroughly in sympathy with Mr. Ster- 
 rett's plans and recommend most strongly that he be supported 
 as effectively and as quickly as possible. 
 (Signed) B. KEIL, 
 
 R. LAQUEUR, 
 W. SPIEGELBERG, 
 R. REITZENSTEIN, 
 E. LITTMANN. 
 
 University of Giessen, 
 (Translation.) Giessen, den 16 Dezember 1910. 
 
 Professor Sterrett's grand outline of a plan for the explora- 
 tion of ancient sites in Asia Minor and Syria can be sure of 
 universal endorsement, and it deserves to be promoted and sup- 
 ported by all who can do so. Such an enterprise endowed with 
 sufficient means and carried through systematically gives prom- 
 ise of the richest results in all branches of the science of the 
 past as well as for prehistoric times, for the middle ages, and 
 for modem times. We hope that it may be made possible for 
 
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 our American colleague to carry his plan into execution. That 
 would mark the inauguration of one of the most urgent and 
 paying tasks that confronts science. 
 
 (Signed) CARL WATZINGER, 
 
 MAX L. STRACK, 
 
 W. SIEVERS, 
 
 FRIEDR. SCHWALLY, 
 
 ALFRED KORTE, 
 
 J. HALLER, 
 
 G. ROLOFF, 
 
 OTTO IMMISCH, 
 
 HERMANN GUNKEL. 
 
 University of Marburg, 
 (Translation.) Marburg, 25 Dec. 1910. 
 
 Professor Sterrett open? up the broad perspective of far- 
 reaching archaeological undertakings that in point of fact 
 should not be postponed longer. Aside from the publications in 
 regard to explorations already made in Asia Minor, a visit I 
 made to the scenes of excavations, such as Troy, Ephesus, Mag- 
 nesia, showed me clearly what a wealth of monuments in Ana- 
 tolia are still to be raised. I applaud Professor Sterrett 's idea 
 of arousing interest in archaeological and historical research. 
 His success would advance science, whose progress is desired 
 by all civilized nations as a unit. 
 
 (Signed) LUDWIG V. SYBEL. 
 
 University of Tiibingen, 
 (Translation.) Tiibingen, 24 Dez. 1910. 
 
 We have read with the greatest pleasure Professor Sterrett 's 
 many-sided outline of a plan for the comprehensive investiga- 
 tion of the past of Asia Minor. The expeditions that have 
 hitherto been made into the interior of Asia Minor show how 
 much there was and is still to be learnt by the study and de- 
 scription merely of what is above ground, and therefore we 
 greet with undisguised pleasure the hope that it may be made 
 
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 possible for him to organize the study of Asia Minor and its 
 monuments on a broad basis, and in particular by means of ex- 
 cavations of every kind to make the soil become vocal in the 
 widest sense. 
 
 On every side the scholars of to-day are demanding that light 
 be thrown upon the scenes of the early archaic culture of 
 Aeolia and Ionia. The question of the end of the art of Myce- 
 nae and Crete, of its transformation and expansion in post- 
 mycenaean times; the question of its relation to Homer; the 
 certain segregation and sortition of the varied oriental deposits 
 in the archaic art of the Grecian Orient ; the proto-ionic archi- 
 tecture and the beginning of sculpture; the hotly contested 
 problem of the history of Hellenistic-Roman art, whether the 
 impulse came from the Orient or from Rome, all these prob- 
 lems and many more besides await their solution from the soil 
 of Asia Minor. There is hardly a period from the beginning of 
 historical life in Greece down to the end of antiquity that does 
 not stand in need of illumination from Asia Minor. 
 (Signed) F. NOACK, 
 
 W. SCHMID, 
 
 G. GUNDERMANN, 
 
 E. KORNEMANN, 
 
 W. GOETZ, 
 
 H. GUNTER. 
 
 University of Bonn, 
 (Translation.) Bonn, 27, 12, 10. 
 
 Professor Sterrett's plan to organize a systematic exploration 
 of Asia Minor, a study of its geography, and an excavation of 
 its ruined sites, seems to me to be both important and promis- 
 ing. From the times of the kingdoms of Asia Minor of the 
 third and second milleniums before Christ, and more especially 
 from the times of the Hittites on down through the times of 
 Greek, Roman, Christian culture until the period of the 
 Islamitic peoples, the importance of Asia Minor for Universal 
 History was immensely tremendous and decisive. But at the 
 
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 present moment we can only form conjectures as to its decisive 
 importance, because the western seaboard alone has been ex- 
 amined carefully, while the interior and the southern seaboard 
 still await exploration. According to all accounts great ruins 
 are found everywhere above ground. To use the spade system- 
 atically on all these sites is a task as attractive as it is urgent. 
 Even for the history of Assyria and Babylonia, to which in the 
 first instance my own studies are directed, paying results are to 
 be expected along special lines. 
 
 Scholars would be filled with the greatest satisfaction and 
 with the most lively gratitude, if, in the interest of science in 
 general, the means could be found wherewith to inaugurate this 
 splendid enterprise, which should be very comprehensive and 
 systematic, if positive results are to be attained. 
 
 (Signed) PROF. DR. A. WIEDEMANN. 
 
 University of Wiirzburg, 
 
 (Translation.) Wiirzburg, den 23 Dezember 1910. 
 
 It is not necessary to go into details concerning the im- 
 portance of Professor Sterrett's plan for research in this home 
 of ancient civilizations for Art, History, Ethnology, Geography, 
 Geology, etc., and in short for the knowledge of the develop- 
 ment of mankind in general. It is indeed a task "worthy of 
 the sweat of the noble." For that reason I have directed my 
 attention in the first instance to the details of Professor Ster- 
 rett 's plan, and I find in it an idea that seems to me to be epoch- 
 making, to wit, the idea that the Director and his chief asso- 
 ciates are to regard this work as one to be long continued, aye, 
 even as a life-work, without being compelled to think of the 
 question of support later on. By that means something extra- 
 ordinary could be accomplished. In the case of many excava- 
 tions the working-up of the finds for publication and their 
 publication is delayed beyond measure or is done in an unsatis- 
 factory manner, because the experts who took part in the work 
 
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 were compelled to accept some position or other which left 
 them no time for any other work. It would be an entirely new 
 species of scientific undertaking, if men of great wealth would 
 bring Professor Sterrett's idea to realization. In Europe we 
 have long been entertaining the desire for the creation of 
 research-positions for scholars, so that the incumbents might 
 live wholly for science without being compelled to teach or 
 without having any duties other than their work of research. 
 On the occasion of the centennial celebration of the University 
 of Berlin our Emperor announced the establishment of such 
 centers of research for the natural sciences. But we shall 
 probably have to wait a long time for the creation of a similar 
 institution for the historical sciences. May America take the 
 lead in setting the world a good example. 
 
 (Signed) DR. HEINRICH BULLE, Archaeology, 
 
 The undersigned concur with the Professor of Archaeology in 
 the University of Wiirzburg in his conviction of the extraordi- 
 nary importance of the project of Mr. Sterrett, and would re- 
 gard its realization as a magnificent furtherance of science. 
 
 (Signed) M. VON SCHANZ, 
 J. JOLLY, 
 G. KRAUS, 
 FR. REGEL, 
 J. KAERST, 
 TH. BOVERI, 
 J. BECKENKAMP, 
 OTTO STAHLIN, 
 THOMAS STANGL. 
 
 The investigations will be of immense value for the history of 
 art in the middle ages, and particularly for the history of 
 Romanesque and Gothic architecture. 
 
 F. KNAPP. 
 
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 University of Rostock, 
 (Translation.) Rostock, den 3 Marz 1911. 
 
 The representatives of the science of the past in the Uni- 
 versity welcome Avith lively satisfaction the work planned by 
 Professor Sterrett, a work in which they are keenly interested 
 and which will bring rich gains to science. 
 
 (Signed) PROFESSOR DR. T. GEFFCKEN, 
 PROFESSOR DR. R. HELM, 
 PROFESSOR DR. W. KOLBE, 
 PROFESSOR DR. A. von SALTS. 
 
 Endorsement of Austro-Hungarian Universities. 
 
 University of Vienna. 
 
 The claims which Asia Minor and Syria have upon the quick 
 and thorough action of the explorer are peculiarly strong and 
 urgent. Not only were those countries through many centuries 
 the seat of a high and original civilization ; the remains of that 
 civilization are grievously endangered and stand in need of a 
 prompt and extensive action of salvation. Much has been lost 
 already, and by far more is almost sure to be lost in the course 
 of the next few years. The construction of railways and the in- 
 crease of wealth generally are at the same time the greatest 
 blessing to the present and future inhabitants and the most 
 serious peril to the legacy of the past. Myriads of stones cov- 
 ered with inscriptions and with artistic chisel work are wander- 
 ing and are going to wander to the lime-kiln. Treasures which 
 to-day and tomorrow may yet be harbored and secured, will be 
 irretrievably lost in the course of the next few years. 
 
 Let me in concluding express a hope that the work Avill in 
 the end concur harmoniously with an undertaking begun long 
 ago by the Imperial Academy of Vienna, disposing of much 
 more modest means. Our goal is the construction of a Corpus 
 Inscriptionum Asiae Minoris, the final embodying of the results 
 of epigraphic research carried on in these countries in one vast 
 collection. One volume only containing the inscriptions of 
 Syria composed in the vernacular idiom of that province has 
 
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 been hitherto published. But much has been done in the way of 
 collecting the literary materials as well as in original research, 
 chiefly in the southern provinces Caria, Syria, Pisidia, to pave 
 the way for the prosecution of an enterprise which has been ini- 
 tiated by our lamented colleague Otto Benndorf and which has 
 been fostered by the munificence of an Austrian nobleman, the 
 Prince Johannes von Liechtenstein. 
 
 (Signed) THEODORE GOMPERZ. 
 
 (Translation.) University of Vienna. 
 
 If the gentlemen connected with American munificence 
 are inclined to listen to the words of a foreigner, I cannot hesi- 
 tate to speak in favor of the project with all my energies. I am 
 convinced that a thorough exploration of these regions would 
 break the venerable, but mischievously idealistic spell of Hellas 
 and Rome and lead to the recognition of truths that will shake 
 to their foundation our notions of the development of civiliza- 
 tion. 
 
 In Europe it is not possible to secure the means wherewith to 
 carry into effect such a tremendous enterprise, because it does 
 not run in the ruts of classical education. America will intro- 
 duce a new epoch in science, if it will boldly pave the way for 
 the realization of Professor Sterrett's project. 
 
 (Signed) JOS. STRZYGOWSKI. 
 
 Prof. a.d. Universitat Wien. Verfasser von ''Orient oder 
 Rom" und ''Kleinasien ein Neuland." 
 
 University of Innsbruck, 
 (Translation.) Innsbruck, 27 Oktober 1910. 
 
 The combination of intensive and extensive research by 
 means of excavations and travel is a happy thought ; the exca- 
 vations would be natural points of departure and centers for 
 excursions, and the results of both would supplement each 
 other. But the factors of chief moment are that the work be 
 organized systematically and for a long period of time, and 
 that its direction be committed to an experienced man and one 
 
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 acquainted with the country. Only in that way will it be pos- 
 sible to carry on thorough and rapid work. And haste is an 
 urgent necessity, more particularly for the objects of all kinds 
 that are above the earth. My own experience in travel (Heber- 
 dey's) covering many years in the interest of the Tituli Asiae 
 Minoris of our Vienna Academy has proved only too often to 
 me and to my companions in the field how frequently and how 
 rapidly small objects, aye, and large ones, too, fall a sacrifice 
 to the ignorance and the fanaticism of the natives. How much 
 of which science has no know^ledge disappears every year can 
 hardly be overestimated. A tremendous amount may still be 
 saved by quick action a rich harvest waits only for the reaper. 
 If an endowed foundation will carry Professor Sterrett's plan 
 into execution, it will place itself in the service of an under- 
 taking, which, the longer it is deferred, becomes all the more 
 insistently a scientific duty of our century. An enlightened 
 institution would thereby render an everlasting service and 
 one that would bless generations yet unborn. 
 (Signed) R. HEBERDEY, 
 E. KALINKA, 
 R. von SCALA, 
 THOMAS FRIEDRICH. 
 
 University of Cracow, 
 
 Cracow, 28 October 1910. 
 All classical scholars are agreed that a thorough investigation 
 of the antiquities of Asia Minor and Syria is a most urgent and 
 important task. Hitherto systematic research has been concen- 
 trated upon Western Asia Minor, but Paphlagonia, Phrygia, 
 Lycia, Cilicia, and Cappadocia contain many relics, as yet not 
 satisfactorily described, of a primitive, autochthonous culture, 
 which, in its day, must have exercised some influence on Hel- 
 lenic art and civilisation. Hitherto, interest has been directed 
 mainly to the spread of Hellenism among the barbarians ; exca- 
 vation and research in Asia Minor may serve to illustrate the 
 opposite development, for it may show how far the Greeks were 
 
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 indebted to the barbarians of those countries. This indebted- 
 ness is no longer mere theory: the Carian element in Cos and 
 Crete is now an acknowledged fact ; the racial origin of Minoan 
 culture is to be looked for in Asia Minor. Austrian scholars 
 have recently discovered Lydian inscriptions, some of whose 
 characteristic letters have their parallels only in Etruscan and 
 Umbro-Samnite writing. The finding of other Lydian inscrip- 
 tions will probably solve the Etruscan mystery and prove that 
 Herodotus was correct in assigning Lydian descent to the 
 Tyrrhenians. Similar attention should be paid to Armenia, 
 with its antique ' ' Urartic ' ' inscriptions and monuments, as well 
 as to Syria, where, not long ago, the earliest dated traces of 
 Indo-Europeans have been discovered, carrying us back to a 
 period about 1500 years B. C. Finally, the powerful organisa- 
 tion and culture of the Hittites requires a thorough elucidation 
 in regard to their ethnographical origin and their relations to 
 their neighbors, both Aryan and Semitic. 
 
 Research in Asia Minor will throw light, not merely on the 
 remote ages of history, but upon later periods as well. The in- 
 scriptions found on the western coasts of the peninsula have 
 informed us in regard to such matters as the attitude of certain 
 Asiatic towns during the war between the Seleucid and 
 Ptolemaic kingdoms; school customs in old Miletus; a famous 
 corporation of actors in the town of Teos; a proconsulate of 
 Tacitus, otherwise unattested, at Mylasa, in Caria. Further 
 investigation would no doubt produce entire clearness on 
 such subjects of general interest as the organisation of the 
 Seleucid state, the social development of town communities in 
 Asia Minor, and their absorption, first by the Greek, and then 
 by the Roman, civilisation. 
 
 Asia Minor was the home of an early Christian literature : 
 witness Basil, the Gregories, Chrysostom. Syriac and Armenian 
 literature have helped to perpetuate their writings, some of 
 their works being preserved in translations into these lan- 
 guages only. There is every reason to expect new light on the 
 development of Christian thought in the early middle ages 
 from diligent research in Asia Minor. Still greater will be its 
 
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 importance for deepening our insight into the development of 
 early Christian and Byzantine art. The studies of Melchior de 
 Vogiie and J. Strzygowski have proved that the treasures of 
 the basilicas can be saved from utter destruction only by im- 
 mediate action and by publication at an early moment; the 
 magnificence of these basilicas may be inferred from Count 
 Lanckoronski 's vv^ork on the towns of Pamphylia and Pisidia. 
 
 The accomplishment of all these tasks will only be possible 
 w^ith the aid of ample financial means, sufficient for many years' 
 patient labour at excavations in Asia Minor. Professor Ster- 
 rett's programme is excellent; it takes all difficulties into 
 account; it embraces all epochs and countries; it is thoroughly, 
 scientific and practical; it is worthy of being realised by the 
 help of an institution or rich man; no American is better 
 qualified than Professor Sterrett to carry the programme into 
 execution, as the work already done by him in Asia sufficiently 
 testifies. Therefore, we. Professors in the Faculty of Letters of 
 Cracow University, express our most emphatic approval of 
 Professor Sterrett 's plan. 
 
 (Signed) ADAM MIODONSKI, 
 
 JAN ROZWADOWSKI, 
 LEON STERNBACH, 
 PIOTR BIENKO WSKI, 
 KAZIMIERZ MORAAVSKI, 
 GEORGE MYCIELSKI. 
 
 University of Czernowitz, 
 (Translation.) Czernowitz, 23 Oktober 1910. 
 
 Those who have conducted research in countries that were 
 the home of an ancient civilization know that journeys in the 
 interest of science are unsatisfactory; for route surveys, even 
 when made with great care by persons who are not experts, are 
 only makeshifts, and for a similar reason the treasures of 
 natural science that lie along his road must be left unutilized by 
 the traveler who is not a natural scientist; so too the archae- 
 ologist, who has studied on a given site the monuments that are 
 above ground, must almost always leave the site with the dis- 
 
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 heartening knowledge that even a little superficial digging 
 would have increased the scientific value of his work many 
 times. All these evils would be remedied by an expedition pro- 
 vided with ample means and the necessary staff of experts and 
 planned to be continued for decades to come. With Professor 
 Sterrett at its head such an expedition would be sure of suc- 
 cess. On repeated journeys he has acquired the indispensable 
 expert knowledge and has won for himself a place of honor 
 among the explorers of the Orient by his archaeological and 
 geographical work, whose accuracy could be admired and veri- 
 fied, for instance, by the Prague Expedition of 1902. The un- 
 dertaking, in view of its importance, would arouse the interest 
 of the whole enlightened world, and scholars, particularly in 
 Austria, whose Imperial Academy and Archaeological Institute 
 have for years been interested in the exploration of Asia Minor, 
 will be glad to welcome colaborers in this wide and still far 
 from exhausted region. 
 
 (Signed) JUL. JuTHNER, 
 
 WALDIMIR MILKOWICZ, 
 JOH. KROMAYER, 
 ISIDOR HILBERG. 
 
 (Translation.) University of Prague, 
 
 Deutsche Universitat, Prag, den 30 November, 1910. 
 The undersigned representatives of the science of the past in 
 the German University of Prague express their conviction that 
 the plan proposed by Professor Sterrett for a comprehensive 
 scientific exploration of Asia Elinor deserves the warmest ap- 
 proval and support from every quarter. The exhaustive explora- 
 tion of Asia Minor is perhaps the most important task demanded 
 of practical archaeology and it will give rich and undreamed of 
 results, which will advance in an equal degree other sciences, 
 orientalistics and geography. But only a systematical and com- 
 prehensive enterprise, superseding the dissipated and often com- 
 peting expeditions, that have been the rule hitherto, can bring 
 about any great degree of success. The sooner the undertaking 
 planned is realized the better it will be for science, for the de- 
 
struction of the still existing antiquities by external agencies and 
 by the hand of man progresses with the greatest rapidity, every 
 year of delay can bring about losses that can never be made good. 
 To prove the importance of excavations precisely in Asia Elinor, 
 we need only point to the great discoveries in Boghaz-Kieui, leav- 
 ing entirely out of consideration the discoveries on the westera 
 seaboard of the peninsula, at Pergamon, Ephesus, Miletus, and 
 Priene. That Professor Sterrett is thie proper man to inaugur- 
 ate and to conduct the enterprise is known to every one who 
 is familiar with his works, but his fitness can be appreciated 
 best by the man who has had the opportunity and one of the 
 signers of this document has had the opportunity of following 
 in the footsteps and of verifying the work of Professor Sterrett 
 in Asia Minor; his comprehensive keensightedness, and his 
 energy will guarantee the success of any expedition. 
 (Signed) WILHELM KLEIN, 
 ALOIS RZACH, 
 CARL VON HOLZINGER, 
 HEINRICH SWOBODA, 
 OTTO PLASBERG. 
 
 Bohemian University of Prague, 
 C. K. Archeologicky Ustav Ceske University, 
 
 Prague, November 29, 1910. 
 The undersigned Professors in the Bohemian University of 
 Prague welcome Professor Sterrett 's splendid project. The 
 importance of Asia Minor for the knowledge of the languages 
 and the civilizations of antiquity has already been pointed out 
 by so many prominent archaeologists and ethnographers that 
 it is unnecessary for us to restate it. At the present time the 
 question of the origin of Byzantine culture is a problem of no 
 less importance, and it has its centre in Asia Minor and Syria. 
 (Signed) DR. LUBOR NIEDERLE, 
 DR. JOSEF KRAL, 
 DR. FRANTISEK GROH, 
 DR. IG. VYSOKY, 
 DR. ROB. NOVAK. 
 
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 Hungarian University of Budapest, 
 
 Budapest, 30 Nov. 1910. 
 
 It will be the glory of America, if research in Asia Minor and 
 Syria is organized, in those parts of the old world, where 
 treasures of the Hittite, Greek, Roman, and Christian civiliza- 
 tions lie hidden beneath the soil, treasures that bewitch the 
 souls of archaeologists and at the same time fill them with an- 
 guish, because of the knowledge that scores of monuments, 
 which generous protectors might save, are being destroyed 
 every day. 
 
 The men who make this research possible would merit the 
 gratitude of the scientific world, if they would endow with an 
 adequate subvention the plan proposed by Professor Sterrett, 
 who is one of the ablest leaders of expeditions of exploration. 
 His ''Outline" is a well considered proposal, and we are sure 
 that he is the best man to execute it. His statement is no fic- 
 titious picture, but a valuable Vademecum for archaeological 
 researches as they are conducted in modern times by our most 
 learned men. We fully agree with Professor Sterrett 's ''pro- 
 memoria, " and we beg that he be accorded any sum he wants 
 for his undertaking. 
 
 The enterprise will be thoroughly American because the idea 
 is Yours, and even the expense will be Yours, but the results 
 will be essentially an international treasure that will be valued 
 by the whole civilized world, because the great task to be per- 
 formed is of international importance. 
 
 Hungary is not rich enough to imitate and carry through 
 researches of such dimensions, but great would be our joy, if 
 You, the ''New World," with Your immense means would do 
 that which overpasses the material ability of the countries of 
 the "Old World." 
 
 And will it not be a glorious thing to bring once more to the 
 light of day civilizations that have been buried for many, many 
 centuries, by permitting Sterrett to carry out his work? We 
 are sure that it will increase immensely our knowledge of an- 
 cient times. It will add greatly to the fame of Your nation, 
 
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 and the promoters of the work of research will earn the warm- 
 est thanks of Old Europe. 
 
 ( Signed ) ARMINIUS V AMBER Y, 
 
 DR. JULIUS PASTEINER, 
 
 DR. STEPH. HEGEDtJS, 
 
 DR. VALENTINUS KUZSINSKY, 
 
 IGN. GOLDZIHER, Ph. D., D. Litt., L.L. D., 
 
 ED. MAHLER, Ph. D., 
 
 DR. EMIL THEWREWK de PONOR, 
 
 DR. WILLIAM PECZ, 
 
 DR. JOSEPH HAMPEL. 
 
 University of Kolozsvar, 
 Kolozsvar, Hungary, Nov. 30, 1910. 
 
 The work to which Professor Sterrett's program directs at- 
 tention, if realized, will add to the three different branches of 
 science in an unexpected measure. Indeed, Asia Minor, the 
 field of the proposed researches, was always subjected to the 
 differing effects of various civilizations. In Asia Minor the 
 culture of the South became mixed with elements not only from 
 the East and West, but from the North as well. 
 
 The problems that confront us in Asia Minor are difficult and 
 complicated, and humanity at large is interested in their solu- 
 tion. 
 
 (Signed) DR. B. POSTAH, 
 
 DR. G. NEMETHY, 
 DR. J. CSENGERI, 
 DR. L. SCHILLING, 
 DR. S. MARKY. 
 
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 Endorsement of Swiss Universities. 
 
 University of Zurich. 
 
 (Translation.) Zurich, den 18 Oktober, 1910. 
 
 The exceedingly important results obtained by the excava- 
 tions carried on during the last decades in Pergamon, Miletus, 
 Magnesia on the Maeander, Ephesus, Priene, etc., encourage us 
 to continue energetically along this path, and it would be cause 
 for great rejoicing, if in some way it could be made possible to 
 continue the work on a large scale and at several points in Asia 
 Minor. History, geography, and topography, the history of art 
 and of civilization, in fact all branches of the science of the past 
 will be greatly advanced thereby. 
 
 (Signed) DR. GUSTAV BILLETER, 
 PROF. DR. H. BLtJMNER, 
 PROF. DR. C. BRUN, 
 PROF. DR. H. HITZIG, 
 PROF. DR. A. KAEGI, 
 PROF. DR. G. MEYER YON KRONAU, 
 PROF. DR. J. R. RAHN, 
 PROF. DR. E. SCHWYZER, 
 DR. OTTO WASER. 
 
 University of Lausanne, 
 
 (Translation.) Lausanne, le 11 Novembre 1910. 
 
 The undersigned. Professors in the University of Lausanne, 
 approve warmly of Professor Sterrett 's plan for researches and 
 excavations in Asia Minor and Syria, undertakings most useful 
 for the progress of archaeology in a field still too little explored. 
 
 (Signed) H. MEYLAN-FAURE, 
 A. de MOLIN, 
 P. VALETTE, 
 E. ROSSIER. 
 
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 University of Freiburg (Switzerland), 
 
 November 23, 1910. 
 We should like to add our testimony to the great importance 
 of Professor Sterrett's project. The plan is indeed one of 
 world-wide scientific interest and we earnestly hope that the 
 means for realizing it may be granted. We are convinced that 
 an individual or a body, in supplying the means, would do 
 a lasting service to scientific research and deserve the gratitude 
 of all scholars. 
 
 (Signed) DR. A. PICCARDT, 
 DR. FR. STEFFENS, 
 DR. J. P. KIRSCH, 
 DR. G. SCHNtiRER, 
 MAX, PRINCE OF SAXONY, 
 V. ZAPLETAL, 
 PROF. P. MANDONNET, 
 J. ZEILLER. 
 
 University of Neuchatel, 
 (Translation.) Neuchatel, le 19 Octobre 1910. 
 
 An expedition in Asia Minor and Syria cannot but be fruitful 
 and of the very highest importance for ancient history in 
 general and for archaeology in particular. 
 
 (Signed) DR. PAUL DESSOULAVY, 
 DR. J. LE COULTRE. 
 For my part, I should be very glad, if the proposed expedi- 
 tion could succeed in discovering a solution for some of the his- 
 torical and archaeological problems which the Hittite antiqui- 
 ties already known and studied have propounded to contem- 
 porary science. 
 
 (Signed) L. CART. 
 
 University of Berne, 
 (Translation.) Bern, 27 Oktober 1910. 
 
 We see with gladness that so experienced and enthusiastic an 
 explorer as Professor Sterrett has developed a plan of explora- 
 tion at once broad and practical. We venture to hope that the 
 
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 trustees of some endowed institution may not allow to escape 
 them the wholly unique and favorable opportunity of placing at 
 the disposal of so distinguished an explorer the necessary money 
 in the richest measure possible. Thereby they will not merely 
 glorify the name of the New World in the field of science, but by 
 the promotion of so exceedingly important an undertaking they 
 will win the thanks of all enlightened nations, great and small. 
 (Signed) OTTO SCHULTHESS, 
 
 KARL MARTI, 
 
 FRIEDR. HAAG. 
 
 Winterthur, Switzerland, 
 (Translation.) 15 Oktober 1910. 
 
 The importance of excavations for numerous branches of 
 science will be all the greater, if they are made quickly, and if 
 they are extensive and exhaustive. For experience teaches that 
 in view of the increasing destruction of ancient buildings, in- 
 scriptions, and monuments, delay brings irreparable loss. 
 (Signed) F. IMHOOF-BLUMER, 
 Hon. Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society, and of the So- 
 ciety for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies; member of the 
 Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, etc., etc. 
 
 University of Geneva, 
 (Translation.) Geneve, le 26 Oct. 1910. 
 
 We recommend most warmly Professor Sterrett's project for 
 research in Asia Minor. Mr. Sterrett and Sir W. M. Ramsay 
 are professional archaeologists whose work has justly attracted 
 attention. The plan of studying exhaustively a given province 
 of Central or Southern Asia Minor deserves the most hearty 
 support, for important discoveries may confidently be expected. 
 (Signed) JULES NICOLE, 
 CHARLES SEITZ, 
 H. EDOUARD NAVILLE, 
 F. DE SAUSSURE, 
 PAUL OLTRAMARE. 
 
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 Endorsement of Dutch Universities. 
 
 University of Leyden. 
 Rijks Museum van Oudheden te Leiden. 
 De Directie van het Museum. 
 Leiden, October 14, 1910. 
 We have noted with the greatest interest the plan of Profes- 
 sor J. R. S. Sterrett for archasological research and excavations 
 in Asia Minor and parts of Syria. Our limited knowledge of 
 the civilization of Asia Minor is one of the chief reasons that 
 we are so much in the dark about many things concerning the 
 earliest development of the classical civilizations. At the same 
 time the importance of Asia Minor for the civilization of the 
 whole East can hardly be overvakied. Our knowledge of the 
 ancient world will be largely increased by Professor Sterrett 's 
 researches as to what Asia Minor was before the Byzantine 
 times and the later middle ages. This undertaking will no 
 doubt be of the greatest value for science and an ever-lasting 
 honour to the country that undertakes it. 
 
 (Signed) A. E. J. HOLWERDA, 
 
 J. J. HARTMAN, 
 
 J. VAN LEEUWEN, JR., 
 
 C. SNOUCK HURGRONJE, 
 TH. BUSSEMAKER, 
 
 G. WILDEBOER, 
 
 D. C. HESSELING, 
 DR. P. A. A. BOESER, 
 
 University of Groningen. 
 (Translation.) Groningen, 11 October, 1910. 
 
 Your plan to investigate systematically with a well-equipped 
 expedition parts of Asia Minor and Syria will be hailed with 
 joy by all archaeologists. Although the soil of Greece itself is 
 as yet very far from being exhausted, still Asia Minor especially 
 is undoubtedly to be regarded at present as a field well suited 
 for scientific investigation. In the way proposed by you you 
 should be able to accomplish much for science and for the glory 
 
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 of your country, if, in addition to the knowledge which you pos- 
 sess, you can also have at your disposal a sufficient number of 
 workers, the necessary time, and the indispensable money. It 
 is unfortunately true, that many archaeological investigations 
 are undertaken without definite program and carried out un- 
 systematically, which is usually the result of difficult and un- 
 certain financial circumstances. It would therefore be very 
 gratifying, if in despatching the American expedition, under 
 your direction, these faults be avoided, and sufficient means for 
 at least twenty successive years be placed at your disposal. If 
 such be the case, then all the rest will certainly go well of itself. 
 The ability of the leader combined with the well-known courage 
 and practical sense of his young countrymen seem to be a suffi- 
 cient guarantee of success. 
 
 (Signed) C. W. VOLLGRAFF, 
 U. P. BOISSEVAIN, 
 J. VAN WAGENINGEN. 
 
 University of Amsterdam, 
 
 Amsterdam, October 15, 1910. 
 We are very strongly convinced that the scientific exploration 
 of Asia Minor must be a matter of the highest concern to all 
 students of history and archaeology. We believe that haste in 
 this work of research is necessary, for delay must needs bring 
 with it the loss of much that might now be saved. A rich in- 
 stitution will be in a position to bring about, or at least to 
 give a mighty impetus to, the realization of the project on a 
 wholly satisfactory scale, and it can do it promptly. By doing 
 it and by doing it at once such an institution will be entitled to 
 the sincerest gratitude of civilized and learned mankind 
 throughout the entire world. 
 
 (Signed) J. M. J. YALETON, 
 
 S. A. NABER, 
 
 K. KUIPER, 
 
 H. J. ELHORST, 
 
 S. R. STEINMETZ, 
 
 J. SIX. 
 
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 University of Utrecht, 
 
 Utrecht, 15, 12, 1910. 
 We feel quite assured that archaeological researches in Asia 
 Minor and Syria, undertaken on a large scale and with the cer- 
 tainty of sufficient funds guaranteed beforehand, will be 
 crowned with immense results in various branches of science. 
 History, geography, and archaeology, without the least doubt, 
 v^ill make enormous gains. The promised leadership, moreover, 
 of so tried an explorer as Professor Sterrett is apt to secure a 
 most complete success. It, therefore, seems to us, that an Insti- 
 tution, possessing the means wherewith such a great undertak- 
 ing may be carried into effect, can hardly do anything better 
 than promote it in the most liberal manner. 
 
 (Signed) H. VAN GELDER, 
 J. C. VOLLGRAFF, 
 P. H. DAMSTJE), 
 G. W. KERNKAMP, 
 W. VOGELSANG. 
 
 Endorsement of French Universities. 
 
 Universiv of Paris, 
 
 Faculte des Lettres, 
 (Translation.) Paris, Novembre 1910. 
 
 Asia Minor is still, as Strzygowski very correctly says, a new 
 country for the history of art. Like all those who have travelled 
 there I know from experience what a harvest of discoveries it 
 contains for those who explore it thoroughly, and like all those 
 who have travelled there I know from experience how urgent 
 this exploration is, if we do not wish to permit a host of precious 
 monuments that are threatened with destruction to perish for- 
 ever. But there is one point in particular in which Asia Minor 
 and Syria commend themselves to the attention of scholars, I 
 mean in the numerous monuments, still imperfectly known, that 
 are preserved in its provinces from the Christian and Byzantine 
 periods. At the time of the Byzantine empire Asia Minor was 
 without any doubt the richest, the most prosperous, the most 
 
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 civilized portion of the monarchy; it was the reservoir of the 
 power of the empire, the cradle of its art. It is in Syria, and 
 especially in Asia Minor and there alone that we shall find 
 the solution of the problems that present themselves in regard 
 to the origin of Byzantine art. The partial discoveries that have 
 already been made there, the recent explorations of the dead 
 cities of Syria or of the painted grottoes of Cappadocia are but 
 specimens of what the methodical study of the Christian and 
 Byzantine monuments in those ;"egions will reveal to us. 
 Therein lies an enormous task that must be undertaken, a task 
 of tremendous interest, a task of extreme urgency, and it seems 
 to me that a scientific foundation would honor itself in grand 
 fashion by furnishing the means wherewith to accomplish the 
 task ; and it seems to me that no one is better qualified to direct 
 it than Mr. Sterrett. 
 
 (Signed) CH. DIEHL, 
 Prof esseur d ' histoire byzantine a 1 ' Universite de Paris ; Trav- 
 eller ; Writer. 
 
 University of Paris, 
 (Translation.) Paris, 11 Novembre 1910. 
 
 I approve entirely of Professor Sterrett 's project for excava- 
 tion and exploration in Asia Minor and Syria. Those are the 
 regions of the first Mediterranean civilization. It is in those 
 countries that we shall perhaps find the key to many problems". 
 
 ( Signed ) JULES MARTHA. 
 Membre de 1' Institut; Traveller; Writer. 
 
 University of Paris, Cabinet du Doyen, 
 (Translation.) Paris, no v. 1910. 
 
 Your plan for excavations in Asia Minor is extremely inter- 
 esting and well thought out. I hope that the grant will be made 
 to you, as the man most capable of conducting it to a successful 
 issue. 
 
 (Signed) ALFRED CROISET, 
 Membre de 1' Institut; Doyen de la Faculte des Lettres de 
 1 ' Universite de Paris. 
 
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 University of Paris, Faculte des Lettres, 
 (Translation.) Paris, le 11 novembre 1910. 
 
 The results of the partial explorations made up to the present 
 in Asia Minor arouse great hopes for the future. Therefore I 
 can only approve in all its points Professor Sterrett's magnifi- 
 cent plan for methodical research. It is a broad and vast enter- 
 prise that will call forth all the enereries of the scholars of the 
 United States of America, and its realization will do great 
 honor to those who Avould undertake its direction. I hope, 
 therefore, that wealthy promoters of the plan will grant to Mr. 
 Sterrett and his fellow workers the resources necessary to open 
 up a new era in the history of archaeological explorations in 
 Asia Minor. 
 
 (Signed) PROFESSEUK MAX. COLLIGNON, 
 
 Membre de I'lnstitut. 
 
 Institut de France, Paris, 
 
 (Translation.) 23 Septembre, 1910. 
 
 All who are interested in the history of the past cannot but 
 hope for the realization of the project proposed by Professor 
 J. R. S. Sterrett. The creation of an ''Asia Minor Exploration 
 Fund" on a solid basis and with resources at its command 
 would be to render a genuine service to science and at the same 
 time do honor to the United States of North America. I join 
 most gladly the scholars, whose voice, more authoritative than 
 mine, has already pleaded with eloquence for this excellent 
 cause, and I agree with them that no one is better qualified to 
 direct the proposed undertaking than he who conceived the 
 idea and who has already given so many proofs of his skill as 
 explorer and of his expert attainments as archaeologist and 
 hellenist. 
 
 CLERMONT-GANNEAU, 
 
 Membre de 1 ' Institut ; prof esseur au College de France. 
 
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 College de France, 
 Senat, 
 (Translation.) Paris, 26 Novembre 1910. 
 
 The scientific exploration of Asia Minor and Syria is one of 
 the most useful enterprises that could be conceived of from the 
 point of view of science, and one that would do the greatest ser- 
 vice to the knowledge of the past of humanity. 
 
 The results of the exploration of Egypt and Palestine are 
 known. Asia Minor is of still greater interest perhaps. Of 
 course it was not the seat of a civilization as powerful as that 
 of Egypt; its ruins do not excite the same curiosity as do the 
 slightest traces of the past of Palestine. But Asia Minor was 
 the meeting-place of the Orient and the Occident, from the time 
 of the Trojan war down to Byzantine times; and, to borrow a 
 figure from its own past, Asia Minor is the Gordian knot of an- 
 cient history. But science does not cut Gordian knots ; it seeks 
 to untie them. It is true that certain parts of Asia Minor have 
 been the scene of successful explorations, but the larger part 
 of this immense domain is still unknown. 
 
 To explore it completely there is need only of the spirit of 
 enterprise, of which the United States has given such remark- 
 able examples, and of the great resources which vast American 
 fortunes alone can place at the disposition of science, in the 
 hands of a man capable of conducting the enterprise to a suc- 
 cessful issue. In any case the work could not be in better 
 hands. By reason of Professor Sterrett's intimate collaboration 
 with Sir William M. Ramsay, by reason of his perfect knowl- 
 edge of the country, and because of his former work he seems 
 quite designed for this task, and all scholars will rejoice to see 
 the Direction of the American Exploration of Asia Minor com- 
 mitted to his hands. 
 
 Personally I am waiting impatiently for the results of 
 methodical excavations south of Asia Minor, in the regions over 
 which the Hittites extended their empire. There can be no 
 doubt that excavations similar to those so successfully con- 
 ducted by Dr. Puchstein in Northern Syria will throw light on 
 one of the problems, which at the present moment is of absorb- 
 
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 ing interest to all those who are interested in the study of an- 
 tiquity. 
 
 (Signed) PHILIPPE BERGER, 
 Membre de 1' Institut; Professeur au College de France; 
 Senateur du Ht. Rhin. 
 
 College de France, 
 (Translation.) Paris, 16 novembre 1910. 
 
 Nothing that concerns the studies that deal with antiquity 
 appears to me so desirable as the realization of the enterprise 
 formulated by you. Your acquired experience and your former 
 work do not permit a doubt that, under your direction, it will 
 have important results. The history of literature is inseparable 
 from that of civilizations, and it is clear that all the discoveries 
 which will enrich the one will be equally useful and profitable 
 for the other. Greek literature in particular needs to be eluci- 
 dated in almost every branch by fresh information, in default of 
 which science finds itself in the presence of insoluble prob- 
 lems. For my part, I believe that many questions will be asked 
 more profitably, and perhaps answered, on the day when we 
 know better the history of the Greek cities of Asia and that of 
 the people with whom they came in contact. 
 
 (Signed) MAURICE CROISET, 
 
 Membre de V Institut; professeur de langue et litterature 
 Grecque au College de France. 
 
 College de France, 
 (Translation.) Paris, 15 Novembre 1910. 
 
 Of course we applaud Professor Sterrett's project, and with 
 both hands. To explore in detail, to excavate with perseverance 
 a country that was occupied successively by the most diverse 
 nationalities from the Hittites to the Arabs ; a country that, par- 
 ticularly in Greek and Roman times, was covered with superb 
 cities full of monuments, works of art, inscriptions, what more 
 interesting, what more productive of results, what more certain 
 
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 to bring honor to science, to the scholars who take part in the- 
 work, to the country which furnishes them with the means for 
 conducting it to a successful issue ? 
 
 (Signed) R. CAGNAT, 
 
 Membre de 1' Institut. 
 
 College de France, Bibliotheque Nationale, 
 (Translation.) Paris, le 16 Novembre 1910. 
 
 You could not choose a more interesting country than Asia 
 Minor, nor one more worthy of the noble efforts you are putting 
 forth. You could not elaborate a programme more complete or 
 more fully understood. 
 
 (Signed) E. BABELON, 
 
 Membre de 1' Institut; Professor au College de France. 
 
 College de France, 
 I think it most desirable that Professor Sterrett's plans be 
 encouraged and receive the pecuniary aid desired. 
 
 (Signed) ED. CHAVANNES, 
 
 Membre de 1' Institut. 
 
 ficole des Hautes Etudes, 
 Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques a la Sorbonne, 
 (Translation.) Paris, le 18 decembre 1910. 
 
 I must add my testimony to those of the scholars of all coun- 
 tries who have given their endorsement to the project for the 
 archaeological and geographical exploration of Asia Minor pre- 
 sented by Mr. J. R. S. Sterrett. 
 
 For him who knows the importance of Asia Minor in the his- 
 tory of civilization and the long duration of the role it played 
 for him, on the other hand, who knows how the great public 
 works that are being carried on at the present moment roads 
 and railways are threatening what is left of so many civiliza- 
 tions, the undertaking proposed by the American scholar is one 
 
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 of the most urgent and the most necessary. The moment has 
 come to undertake it methodically, with a well thought out plan, 
 with that consecutiveness which alone can bring definitive re- 
 sults. It is a great undertaking which will do the very greatest 
 honor to the nation that will assume the responsibility and the 
 expense. 
 
 By his experience in Asia Minor, by his former journeys, by 
 the services he has already rendered to the science of antiquity, 
 Mr. J. R. S. Sterrett is fitted to direct this important explora- 
 tion which excites so many hopes. The high esteem in which I 
 hold him makes it my duty to support his project with all my 
 might. (Signed) BERNARD HAUSSOULIIER, 
 
 Membre de 1' Institut. 
 
 Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes, 
 (Translation.) Paris, 18 novembre 1910. 
 
 I approve with all my heart of Professor Sterrett 's plan. 
 Such an undertaking will bring great honor to America and will 
 make the name of the donor dear to all who are interested in 
 the future of literature and science. 
 
 (Signed) MICHEL BReAL, 
 
 Membre de 1' Institut. 
 
 Ecole Pratique des Hautes ]&tudes, 
 (Translation.) Paris, le 23 Dec. 1910. 
 
 It seems to me that the systematic exploration of Asia Minor 
 is a scientific necessity, and, humanly speaking, such explora- 
 tion is perhaps the greatest service that could be rendered to all 
 the Mussulman and Christian populations of Turkey in Asia. I 
 know by experience how much influence the visits of passing 
 travellers and the good advice of Occidentals may have in the 
 civil and religious pacification of those unhappy countries. 
 Therefore I add my name as one of the most ardent supporters 
 of Professor Sterrett 's project. 
 
 (Signed) B^RARD. 
 
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 University of Lyons, 
 
 Faculte des Lettres, 
 (Translation.) Lyon, le 12 Novembre 1910. 
 
 An accurate description of Syria and of Asia Minor, a com- 
 plete inventory of the documents which these countries could 
 furnish for the history of the arts, of the religions, of the civil- 
 ization in general, are certainly most earnestly to be desired; 
 geographers and anthropologists, archaeologists and linguists, 
 historians of primitive civilizations, historians of Greek and 
 Roman antiquities, of early Christianity, of the Middle Ages, 
 all are equally interested. But it is only too true that our 
 knowledge of these peculiarly interesting regions is up to the 
 present moment very incomplete. Those of us who have trav- 
 elled in Asia have been able to see the facts for themselves; 
 they have discovered with stupefaction that, in countries so 
 near to Europe and so easily accessible, whole districts are 
 terrae incognitae ; they have carried with them the recollection 
 of vast fields of ruins, promising rich scientific harvests to 
 reapers, but lying waste and fallow ; they also carry with them 
 the recollection of antiquities of all sorts, inscriptions, buildings, 
 sculptures, delivered over to destruction. These recollections go 
 back to a period of twenty years ago; since then, for various 
 reasons, but especially in consequence of the building of lines 
 of railways, the destruction has been accelerated. Therefore we 
 should hear with joy that a new body of scholars had been 
 added to those already in the field to hunt for, to collect, to pub^ 
 lish the documents that are still to be found above ground or are 
 concealed beneath the soil; especially if this new expedition, 
 having at its disposal considerable pecuniary resources for a 
 long series of years, could proceed in its researches in a more 
 methodical, more exhaustive, manner than has usually been the 
 case ; and if it could have at its head a chief like Mr. Sterrett, 
 [worthy disciple of the illustrious explorer Sir William Ram- 
 say] , himself an experienced traveller and the author of works 
 justly held in esteem by the entire learned world. 
 
 In creating an ''Asia Minor Exploration Fund" America 
 will merit well of science. 
 
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 (Signed) PH. E. LEGRAND, 
 HENRI LECHAT, 
 PHILIPPE HOMO, 
 CH. RENEL, 
 V. LORET, 
 L. RAMAIN, 
 F. ALLeGRE, 
 EM. JULLIEN, 
 M. ZIMMERMANN. 
 
 University of Toulouse, 
 
 Faculte des Lettres. 
 (Translation.) Toulouse, le 22 novembre 1910. 
 
 We second with our whole heart the wishes expressed by our 
 colleagues of the Universities of the whole world. A great 
 project for archaeological research in Asia Minor and Syria, 
 like that outlined by Mr. J. R. S. Sterrett, deserves to be pro- 
 moted in every way. Excavations and expeditions undertaken 
 in the same regions during the past century have shown what 
 riches lie buried beneath the soil; it is certain that they have 
 not been exhausted. Geographical, prehistorical, classical, 
 mediaeval studies will reap rich harvests there, if the enter- 
 prise, conducted by a scholar as authoritative as Mr. Sterrett, 
 could count on sufficient funds: and it would be an honor to 
 a richly endowed institution, if it would devote a portion of its 
 income to such research. 
 
 (Signed) F. DuRRBACH, 
 E. CARTAILHAC, 
 CH. Ll&CRIVAIN, 
 MOUDRY BEAUDOUIN, 
 DOGNON, 
 L. DELARUELLE. 
 
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 University of Lille, 
 
 Institut de Papyrologie, 
 (Translation.) Lille, le 28 Decembre 1910. 
 
 We have read with great interest Professor Sterrett's note 
 on a project for exploration and excavation in Asia Minor, and 
 we hope with all our heart for its success. It is certain that the 
 furtherance of such an undertaking would honor a University, 
 and a mere glance at the plan gives assurance that the enter- 
 prise will be conducted in a methodical manner. 
 (Signed) PIERRE JOUGUET, 
 (Authorized signatures) HENRI BORNECQUE, 
 
 JULES GAY, 
 NICOLARBOT, 
 . EMILE THOMAS, 
 PHILIPPE SAGNAC, 
 ALEXANDRE DE SAINT-LEGER, 
 ALBERT DEMANGEON. 
 
 University of Bordeaux, 
 (Translation.) Bordeaux, le 27 novembre 1910. 
 
 There is no spot of earth on the face of our globe so laden 
 with history as this gigantic meeting-place of the three conti- 
 nents of antiquity. If the New World, with its enormous re- 
 sources, should undertake to search into the origins of the Old 
 World, it is evident that our knowledge will make prodigious 
 steps forward. I hope that the United States will lend its 
 name to this colossal work, and that an enlightened liberality 
 will make it possible for European contingents to take part in 
 the enterprise, and that the direction of the excavations and 
 surface research be confided to a leader, who, by his journeys 
 and his books, has proved himself to be a man of action and a 
 scholar, as you have done. 
 
 (Signed) R. RADET, 
 
 Professeur d' histoire ancienne a 1' Universite, Doyen de la 
 Faculte des Lettres. 
 
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 University of Grenoble, 
 Faculte des Lettres, Cabinet du Doyen, 
 (Translation.) Grenoble, le 20 Novembre 1910. 
 
 The project outlined by Professor Sterrett for the archae- 
 ological exploration of Asia Minor is of the very highest in- 
 terest. It is an unequalled mine of documents precious for the 
 history of the past, and the methodical and complete exploita- 
 tion of this mine is of an extreme urgency. Moreover, the great 
 competency of Professor Sterrett, well known to all archae- 
 ologists, is a solid guaranty of success, and there can be no doubt 
 that he is the man for the task. The promoters of the plan 
 would render an inestimable service to science in allowing him 
 to carry out this grand enterprise. 
 
 (Signed) TH. COLAKDEAU, 
 T. de CROZALS, 
 S. CHABERT, 
 RAOUL BLANCHARD. 
 
 University of Montpellier, 
 (Translation.) Montpellier, 25 Novembre 1910. 
 
 We agree in believing that such an enterprise is at the pres- 
 ent moment one of those from which the science of the past can 
 expect the most important results, and we hope that American 
 men of wealth may make it possible to realize it. We add 
 that no one seems to us better qualified than you are, with your 
 long experience in the Orient, to direct a scientific expedition in 
 Asia Minor. 
 
 (Signed) ANDRE JOUBIN, 
 M. BONNET, 
 
 LEON G. PeLISSIER (Dean), 
 P. GACHON, 
 
 E. CH. BABUT, 
 
 F. MAURY. 
 
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 University of Rennes, 
 Faculte des Lettres, 
 (Translation.) Rennes, le 16 nov. 1910. 
 
 The Council of the Faculty of Letters of Rennes endorses 
 unanimously Professor Sterrett's plan for historical and geo- 
 graphical research in Asia Minor and Syria. It hopes that the 
 grant may be allowed, for in no other part of the ancient world 
 can we expect to discover richer and more interesting remains 
 of ancient civilizations. 
 
 (Signed)^ G. DOTTIN, Dean of the Faculty of Letters. 
 The Council of the Faculty of Letters consists of : 
 
 DELAUNAY, 
 BOURDON, 
 
 See, 
 
 JORDAN, 
 
 VACHER, 
 
 FEUILLERAT, 
 
 MACE, 
 
 LE BRAZ, 
 
 ALLAIS. 
 
 University of Poitiers, 
 (Translation.) Poitiers, 17 novembre 1910. 
 
 Professor Sterrett's plan for a methodical and complete in- 
 vestigation of the antiquities of Asia Minor and Syria in so far 
 as they are still extant is most judicious and practical. We 
 earnestly hope that this work, which will give to human science 
 documents that will be useful from so many points of view, 
 may be undertaken with all speed. Success will be assured it 
 under the earnest and competent direction of Professor Sterrett, 
 and by means of the subvention of an enlightened generosity. 
 (Signed) E. ERNAULT, 
 (Verbal assent by) A. fflLD (Dean), 
 H. CARR^, 
 E. ANDOUIN. 
 
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 University of BesanQon, 
 ' Faculte des Lettres, 
 (Translation.) Besangon, 17 novembre 1910. 
 
 I warmly endorse Professor Sterrett's plan for excavations 
 in Asia Minor and Syria, and I gladly add my enthusiastic ap- 
 proval to that of the most illustrious representatives of science 
 in all countries. No lover of ancient culture can be indifferent 
 to this enterprise, as inspiring as it is timely. It will certainly 
 bring to light a wealth of highly interesting documents. It be- 
 longs to America, the country of magnificent benefactions and 
 generous initiative, by setting this glorious example to win uni- 
 versal admiration and gratitude. Professor Sterrett is as made 
 for the direction of the work. 
 
 (Signed) HILAIRE VANDAELE. 
 
 University of Aix, 
 Faculte des Lettres, 
 (Translation.) Aix, le 19 Novembre 1910. 
 
 We endorse in its entirety the plan of Professor Sterrett. 
 Asia Minor and Syria will certainly be the countries chosen for 
 archaeological research in the twentieth century. 
 
 (Signed) J. BRENOUS, 
 CAHEN, 
 MICHEL CLERC. 
 
 Institut de France, 
 (Translation.) Paris, nov. 1910. 
 
 We have good grounds for expecting that an accurate and 
 exhaustive exploration of Asia Minor and Syria will shed light 
 upon the earliest history and the entire past of Aryan peoples. 
 It is impossible in this connexion not to think of that inscription 
 of Boghaz Kieui which recently recalled to our minds some 
 names of Vedic divinities ; it is also impossible not to think of 
 those long and intimate relations between the Orient and 
 Nearer Asia, concerning which it would be of such transcendent 
 interest to get that accurate information which a happy dis- 
 
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 covery might suddenly make to flash from the night. The plan 
 of research commands the warmest sympathy of all minds 
 capable of feeling and appreciating the great call of the past. 
 The task is immense ; but it will bring all the more honor to the 
 liberality that will render it possible and to the ability of the 
 leader who will be called upon to triumph over difficulties, in- 
 finite, it is true, but not greater than his experience. 
 
 (Signed) EMILE SEN ART, 
 
 Membre de 1' Institut; President de la Societe Asiatique. 
 (Translation.) Paris, 30 Novembre 1910. 
 
 The exploration of Asia Minor and Syria, conducted on the 
 plan so well thought out and presented by Professor Sterrett, 
 will be a work of the first order of interest and will do the 
 greatest honor to the nation that undertakes it and to the 
 munificence that renders it possible. It was in Asia Minor that 
 the old empires of the Euphrates and the Nile, beyond which 
 lay nothing but the geologic ages, came into contact and into 
 conflict with each other and with a third empire, that of the 
 Hittites, of whom we are but just now getting glimpses. In 
 Asia Minor we may hope to find at least a part of the most 
 ancient archives of those groups of nations which on the north 
 from Illyria to the Caspian Sea, and on the south from the 
 Peloponnesus to Syria, where the carriers of that Aegean civil- 
 ization that is to this day still totally unknown, nations which 
 in the end became more or less blended with Hellenism. It is 
 from Asia Minor that there has come to us the first almost 
 dated mention of Vedic divinities. Hellenism itself, with 
 which we enter upon our own history, had in Asia Minor its 
 first and its second periods of florescence, and even a third, 
 under the sceptre of Byzantium. It was in Asia Minor that 
 Christianity elaborated its teachings and its heresies, in contact 
 with and sometimes under the influence of the religions of 
 Greater Asia. . . . The time has come for a comprehensive', 
 coherent, methodical exploration, carried on viribus unitis by 
 well organized bodies of experts, sure of a to-morrow, disposing 
 of sufficient means, and controlled by one guiding mind that 
 
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 embraces them all. Not only are the times ripe for such an 
 enterprise, but this is actually the psychological moment and 
 to defer it only for a few years would be to run the risk of 
 being too late, so rapidly are matters changing in the Orient of 
 to-day, invaded, as it is, by modern progress, ^which is itself a 
 terrible destroyer. Professor Sterrett's plan meets all the 
 exigencies; he is its natural leader; the undertaking will ad- 
 vance science in an eminent degree; it will do equal honor to 
 American wealth and American initiative, and it will be truly 
 worthy of a great nation. 
 
 (Signed) A. BARTH, 
 
 Membre de V Institut. 
 
 (Translation.) Paris, 17 novembre 1910. 
 
 I endorse with all my heart this grand plan for excavations in 
 Asia Minor and I hope most ardently for its prompt and happy 
 realization. I do not doubt that all my colleagues of the Acade- 
 my of Inscriptions hold the same opinion and second your gen- 
 erous efforts to bring to a successful issue what you have under- 
 taken with such devotion to the science of archaeology. 
 
 (Signed) GUSTAVE SCHLUMBEEGER. 
 
 Membre de 1' Institut. 
 
 Endorsement of Belgian Universities. 
 
 University of Ghent, 
 (Translation.) Gand, le 29 novembre 1910. 
 
 Few regions in the world have been so continuously in the 
 centre of the great conflicts of ideas and civilizations as has 
 been Asia Minor. In the prehellenic and hellenistic periods, as 
 well as in the times of the beginnings of Christianity, Asia 
 Minor was the scene of events of great importance for the un- 
 derstanding of history. Recent explorers, and among them our 
 M. Cumont, have pointed out that researches, pursued method- 
 ically and uninterruptedly, will bring to light documents that 
 
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 will be real revelations. All are unanimous that the progress- 
 ing economic development of these regions threatens to do in- 
 calculable harm to what is left of ancient monuments. It is 
 imperative that we save the antiquities of Syria and Asia Minor. 
 The plan proposed by Mr. Sterrett seems to be of the best con- 
 ceivable. He has himself proved it to be so. The opportunity 
 by which he would profit is perhaps unique. There are few 
 scientific enterprises that can claim our sympathy from so many 
 points of view. If some man or institution will consent to 
 grant to Mr. Sterrett the money he needs, we shall have to 
 thank it for the recovery of a very important part of our past, 
 perhaps that part which it is of most interest to the world to 
 know. 
 
 (Signed) P. THOMAS, 
 
 A. de CEULENEEK, 
 
 J. BIDEZ, 
 
 A. KOEESCH, 
 
 L. PREUD 'HOMME. 
 
 University of Liege, 
 (Translation.) Liege, le 28 novembre 1910. 
 
 In the domain of historical studies there is no task which to- 
 day seems to be more full of promise than the exploration of 
 Asia Minor. The Director of such a large undertaking must 
 possess various qualifications, and competent men agree that they 
 are to be found in an eminent degree in Mr. Sterrett. He did 
 important work as an explorer and he published his results in a 
 way to satisfy the most exacting, so that he is admirably 
 equipped to perform this two-fold task demanded of the expe- 
 dition, one which the world of scholars will follow with its 
 good wishes ; he will know how to collect the material and how 
 to put it promptly into the hands of scholars. 
 (Signed) CH. MICHEL, 
 
 L. PARMENTIER. 
 
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 (Translation.) Bruxelles, 16 Nov. 1910. 
 
 It is hardly necessary for me to say how greatly I approve of 
 the plan proposed by you for a systematized exploration of 
 Asia Minor. I have sufficiently proved the value I attach to 
 that kind of research by myself making two journeys for the 
 purpose of study, one in 1900 in Pontus and Armenia and the 
 other in 1907 in Northern Syria. The means which you propose 
 to employ seem to me the most suitable for bringing the maxi- 
 mum results. I approve entirely of what you say concerning 
 the necessity of choosing fixed regions and of exploring each of 
 them, from a centre of operations, as completely as possible, 
 village by village. That is the only truly scientific procedure ; 
 it leaves almost nothing to chance. Hitherto archaeologists 
 have counted too much on Good Fortune, who is a capricious 
 goddess. Without being able to employ the method which you 
 outline and without reaching the ideal which you propose to 
 yourself, we have at least attempted to approach it, Messrs. An- 
 derson, Gregoire, and I, in publishing together the collection of 
 all the inscriptions of Pontus, a Province which we had trav- 
 ersed successively with different objects in view. But, like all 
 those who know the Koman Orient, I am convinced that what is 
 to be found on the surface of the ground is of slight importance 
 by the side of that which excavations would produce. You 
 have pointed out quite correctly what historical, geographical, 
 and archaeological revelations are to be expected. But every 
 one thinks of the results of such revelations from the point of 
 view of his own preferred studies and sees more clearly the ad- 
 vantages which they may be expected to bring from that stand- 
 point. Therefore, permit me to insist upon the considerable im- 
 portance which the realization of your project will have upon 
 our knowledge of ancient religion. All, or almost all the great 
 sanctuaries of Asia Minor: Pessinus, Comana Pontica, Comana 
 Aurea, Zela, Castabala, etc., are still concealed beneath rubbish, 
 and perhaps a few strokes of the pick would suffice to make 
 sensational discoveries. We must remember that Asia Minor 
 was the real cradle of Christianity, and it is of importance, even 
 for theologians, to know the place where Christianity was de- 
 
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 veloped and to learn what paganism was in those countries 
 when the Good News was first preached there. Therein lies at 
 the present moment one of the grand problems in the history of 
 religions; and the task to be accomplished is one of the most 
 important that can be demanded of the scientific activity of the 
 twentieth century. 
 
 If the necessary grant is made to you, I do not doubt that you 
 will also find the men, and they are equally indispensable. In 
 an enterprise that should be of long duration, your young col- 
 laborators, if they have been well chosen, will be educated for 
 their definitive work by the preliminary labors. 
 
 (Signed) FRANZ CUMONT. 
 
 Universite Catholique de Louvain, 
 (Translation.) Louvain, le Decembre 1910. 
 
 All those, who, for whatever reason, are interested in the 
 history of ancient civilizations, will applaud Professor Ster- 
 rett's plan for surface research and systematic excavations in 
 Asia Minor and Syria. The important results acquired up to 
 the present by isolated explorations are a certain proof of the 
 success that cannot fail to crown the execution of a plan so 
 broad and complete as Professor Sterrett's. We hope that 
 American wealth will seize this opportunity to add new lustre 
 to American science and that, in confident reliance upon Pro- 
 fessor Sterrett's scientific authority and experience, it may 
 provide the means wherewith to realize this magnificent enter- 
 prise. 
 
 (Signed) T. MAYENCE, 
 
 EDM. REMY, 
 
 CH. MOELLER, 
 
 F. COLLARD, 
 
 J. SENCIE. 
 
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 Endorsement of Scandinavian Universities. 
 
 University of Copenhagen, 
 
 Copenhagen, Nov. 26, 1910. 
 We have not the slightest hesitation in warmly recommend- 
 ing Dr. J. R. S. Sterrett's petition. A thorough and compre- 
 hensive investigation of Asia Minor, and above all of its central 
 and eastern parts, will no doubt mark an epoch in the study of 
 history, ancient as well as mediaeval, and promises moreover 
 highly interesting results in the fields of anthropology and the 
 science of language. 
 
 (Signed) VILH. THOMSEN, 
 M. CL. GERTZ, 
 JOH. STEENSTRUP, 
 FR. BUHL, 
 J. L. HEIBERG, 
 A. B. DRACHMANN, 
 J. C. JACOBSEN, 
 KR. ERSLEV, 
 VALDEMAR SCHMIDT, 
 CHR. BLINKENBERG, 
 K. F. KINCH. 
 
 University of Copenhagen, 
 Prinsens Palais, Copenhagen, Dec. 16, 1910. 
 
 The archaeological and historical research in Asia Minor and 
 Syria planned by Professor Sterrett is a task of the greatest 
 scientific importance, and the valne of its right execution can 
 hardly be appreciated too highly. 
 
 As to the later historical times I need not to point out the 
 reasons for that judgment: every one knows what part Asia 
 Minor has played in the great historical spectacle that begins 
 with the foundation of the Christian Church on the ruins of 
 pagan religions, and ends with the establishment of the Otto- 
 man Empire. The study of the monuments illustrating the 
 various acts of that great play will be most welcomed by 
 Christian and mediaeval archaeology, by the history of modern 
 art, and by political history. 
 
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 With regard to the remoter periods I should remind the 
 reader of two facts, viz., (1) Asia Minor, and especially the 
 eastern parts of it, has been the seat of great realms whose 
 power and importance for the general history of mankind have 
 left many traces in the Scriptures and in the Assyrian and 
 Egyptian records; but the true nature and the civilization of 
 the peoples belonging to those realms are still very imperfectly 
 known. Progress can here only be hoped for through a careful 
 examination of the land itself and of the monuments still to be 
 found above and under the soil. That task alone would per- 
 fectly justify the great undertaking planned by Professor 
 Sterrett. (2) Asia Minor has in some respects from the re- 
 motest times been the source of, or else the thoroughfare for, 
 many of the movements that gradually transformed the 
 aborigines of Europe from barbaric savages into civilized peo- 
 ples. The modern civilization of the old and the new world has 
 its origin in the acting of oriental influences on the nature of 
 the European races, and for the study of the infancy of Euro- 
 pean culture the knowledge of the early monuments and an- 
 tiquities of Asia Minor is of the greatest importance. Every 
 archaeologist who has undertaken studies of the prehistoric and 
 early historical development of the European peoples has met 
 with the regrettable fact that the story of ancient Asia Minor 
 is a vast unknown desert, with but few oases, and that in con- 
 sequence the only road that could take him forward has in many 
 cases proved impracticable. To point out only a few of the 
 main problems: the connection of the Greek and the Asiatic 
 stone age, the meeting of Egyptian and Oriental influences in 
 Pre-Mycenaean Greece, the invention and introduction of paint- 
 ing in ceramic art, and, later on, the mutual relations in the 
 already highly civilized Mycenaean age, the making of the 
 Greek gods through combination of original European religion 
 with ideas from the East, etc. An exhaustive knowledge of the 
 early relics of Asia Minor will not only clear up the history of 
 Asia Minor itself, but also the beginning and first development 
 of Greek civilization. 
 
 I should, therefore, recommend the proposed researches that 
 
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 promise, if uudertakeu on a sufficiently large scale and by the 
 right men, results of great scientific importance. 
 
 (Signed) CHR. BLINKENBERG, Phil. Dr., 
 Inspector in the National Museum, Copenhagen ; Member of 
 the Danish Expedition to Rhodes ; Author of ' ' Archaeologische 
 Studien," ''The Thunder-Weapon in Religion and Folklore," 
 etc. 
 
 La Glyptotheque de Ny Carlsberg, 
 Musee de Sculpture, Copenhagen, le 22, 12, 10. 
 I think it is quite evident that archaeological research in Asia 
 Minor and Syria under the direction of Mr. Sterrett will be of 
 very great value to science and most important for every one 
 who is interested in history and art. 
 
 (Signed) DR. CARL JACOBSEN, 
 Director of the Royal Museum of Art in Copenhagen. 
 
 University of Upsala, 
 Filosofiska Fakulteten i Upsala, 
 
 November 27, 1910. 
 In spite of many journeys of research the interior of Asia 
 Minor in particular is still a "terra incognita," where the most 
 important prehistoric and historic problems remain to be 
 solved. We greet such an undertaking with the greatest ap- 
 proval, and we are convinced that the personal qualities of 
 Mr. Sterrett will warrant a successful issue of the task. 
 (Signed) 0. A. DANIELSSON, 
 P. PERSSON, 
 K. REINH. GEIJER, 
 SAM WIDE. 
 
 University of Upsala, 
 
 Upsala, Jan. 10, 1911. 
 We the undersigned members of the Philosophical Faculty of 
 the University of Upsala take the liberty of vigorously concur- 
 ring in the opinion advanced by our colleagues, 0. A. Daniels- 
 son, K. R. Geijer, P. Persson, and S. Wide concerning Professor 
 J. R. S. Sterrett 's project for the exploration of Asia Minor and 
 Syria. 
 
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 (Signed) HAROLD HJaRNE, 
 K. F. JOHANSSON, 
 EINAR LOFSTEDT, 
 H. SJORGEN, 
 ERNST ANDERSSON, 
 LENNART KJELLBERG. 
 I congratulate Professor Sterrett very heartily not only on his 
 splendid idea of making just now such a vigorous effort to save 
 for science the numerous remains of ancient civilizations in Asia 
 Minor, but also on the many sympathetic declarations from the 
 very first authorities on such matters. 
 
 (Signed) LENNART KJELLBERG. 
 
 University of Christiania, 
 Universitetets Oldsagsamling, 
 
 Christiania, den 25 Oct. 1910. 
 Further researches and excavations in Asia Minor and Syria 
 are of the greatest interest for the history of early human cul- 
 ture. We think that a Maecenas, who will give sufficient means 
 to such researches, will thereby further in an eminent degree 
 the knowledge of the history of mankind. 
 
 (Signed) P. 0. SCHJOTT, 
 
 L. B. STENERSEN, 
 J. A. KNUDTZON, 
 J. LIEBLEIN, 
 YNGVAR NIELSEN, 
 ALEXANDER SEIPPEL, 
 A. TORP, 
 
 GABRIEL GUSTAFSON. 
 Prof. J. A. Knudtzon has given a stronger expression of our 
 sympathy in these words, ''The latest excavations in Asia Minor 
 and Syria warrant the hope that a continuation of them will be 
 of extraordinary value. It may even be presumed that in no 
 other places on earth will excavations or other researches give 
 results so valuable for ancient history, archaeology, ethnology, 
 and linguistics as in those countries. Therefore it is most de- 
 sirable that such research should be continued there on a large 
 scale.'* 
 
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 Endorsement of the University of Athens and of Archaeological 
 Institutions in Athens. 
 
 University of Athens, Greece, 
 (Translation.) 3 November 1910. 
 
 Professor Sterrett's project for the exploration of Asia Minor 
 and Syria, which has been endorsed by the most distinguished 
 archaeologists, philologists, and historians of Europe and Amer- 
 ica, could only meet with a still stronger endorsement in Greece ; 
 because from the most ancient times the history of Greece is 
 inseparably connected with that of Asia Minor and Syria, and 
 from the proposed systematical exploration of those countries we 
 look with confidence for a flood of new knowledge to be poured 
 upon the origin of the Greek nation, upon the inception and 
 development of its religion and its art, upon the history of its 
 language, upon the history of the states which it founded in the 
 Orient, and in general upon the origin and spread of its civil- 
 ization. The researches, carried on during the last decades in 
 Asia Minor and Syria by Professor Sterrett and others, have 
 been more or less restricted, and yet they have made valuable 
 contributions towards the understanding of these questions. 
 But a more insistent study and an intenser activity is greatly 
 to be desired, because it is certain that otherwise many monu- 
 ments will be damaged or utterly annihilated. Therefore we 
 regard as most timely and opportune Professor Sterrett's pro- 
 posal that a great expedition, consisting of experts and provided 
 with ample means, undertake, under his direction, the continu- 
 ous and methodical exploration of those vast countries. We feel 
 certain that such a work will be worthy of a great nation. The 
 successful management of the expedition is guaranteed by the 
 personality of Professor Sterrett whose competency has been 
 clearly proven by researches and admirable writings in this 
 very field. 
 
 (Signed) SPYRIDON BASES, Dean 
 G. MISTRIOTES 
 GEORGIOS N. HATZIDAKES 
 N. G. POLITES 
 GREG. N. BERNADAKES 
 
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 S. K. SAKELLAROPOULOS 
 A. N. SKIAS 
 MARGARITES EUANGELIDES 
 CHR. TSOUNTAS 
 
 University of Athens, 
 Athens, 24 Nov. 1910. 
 The systematical exploration of Asia is a great undertaking 
 from every scientific point of view: it is in keeping with the 
 spirit of our times and is therefore of international interest, 
 an interest much greater for us Greeks, because Asia Minor was 
 always closely connected with Greece historically and ethno- 
 logically. I am particularly interested in the history of Asia 
 Minor in the middle ages; I should welcome a thoroughgoing 
 investigation of the old churches and monasteries, a study of 
 the mediaeval works of art and manuscripts, the gathering and 
 publication of Byzantine and later inscriptions, and a research 
 into the ever shifting fate of Asia Minor in the middle ages. I 
 should also like to know that the folk-lore of the peninsula will 
 be studied, and the manuscripts and documents in European 
 libraries were to be searched for historical materials. 
 
 (Signed) PROF. DR. SPYR. P. LAMBROS. 
 
 University of Athens, 
 (Translation.) Athens, November 30, 1910. 
 
 Nothing bears witness to an advanced stage of culture in a 
 nation as much as its recognition of the value of the historical 
 sciences and its promotion of them, and nothing promotes the 
 historical sciences as much as archaeological research in coun- 
 tries which were distinguished because of their enlightened civ- 
 ilization in the olden times. Asia Minor is such a country par 
 excellence, and Professor Sterrett's former success in that field 
 guarantees the success of any similar work in the future. 
 
 (Signed) ANDREAS N. SKIAS. 
 
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 Parnassos Philological Society, 
 (Translation.) Athens, 29 October 1910. 
 
 At the last meeting of the Parnassos Philological Society Pro- 
 fessor N. G. Polites made a report on your plan for a systematic 
 scientific investigation of Asia Minor and parts of Syria. Our 
 Society gave unanimous expression to the hope that this magni- 
 ficent project might be realized by the granting of the abundant 
 means necessary therefor. We are firmly convinced that the 
 methodical investigation of those countries for what is on the 
 surface will be most fruitful in observations and discoveries 
 calculated to shed a bright light, not only on their prehistoric 
 times, but also on their condition in historic times, particularly 
 in the Hellenistic and Roman period, and in the Byzantine epoch. 
 And besides that it will insure at least the scientific study of 
 monuments which barbarism is destroying every day. 
 
 It is the opinion of our Society that the success of the great 
 enterprise is guaranteed by the fact that the author of the 
 Epigraphical Journey in Asia Minor and of the Wolfe Expedi- 
 tion to Asia Minor and of other collections of inscriptions of 
 Asia Minor and Syria is to direct it. 
 
 (Signed) T. A. ARGYROPOULOS, President, 
 
 S. A. PAPAFRANCOS, General Secretary. 
 
 National Archaeological Museum, 
 (Translation.) Athens, November 29, 1910. 
 
 Science in general will be greatly advanced by excavations 
 in Asia Minor and Syria to the great good of humanity, of 
 which Asia Minor is justly regarded as the cradle. Only a few 
 places in Asia Minor have been excavated and explored by com- 
 petent archaeologists, in the number of whom may be mentioned 
 my brother-in-law, Schliemann, who won world-wide fame by 
 his excavations in Troy. A new Schliemann will be found in 
 Mr. Sterrett, the traveller and scholar, and science will erect a 
 golden statue in everlasting commemoration of the virtue of 
 the donor of the funds, as did the Greeks and the Romans in 
 the olden time in honor of their Choregi. 
 
 (Signed) P. KASTRIOTES, 
 Director of the National Archaeological Museum. 
 
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 The National Numismatical Museum 
 
 (Translation.) Athens, 5 November 1910. 
 
 I know of no scientific task more important, more to be de- 
 sired, or more urgent than the systematic exploration and ex- 
 cavation of Asia Minor in its entirety, for it is the cradle and 
 the theatre of the ancient civilizations of the Hittites, Phry- 
 gians, Greeks, Romans, Early Christians, Byzantines, and Sel- 
 juks. 
 
 But the task is so great and so costly that the scholars of 
 Europe can only hope for its realization at the hands of others. 
 Europe has indeed an army of scholars capable of doing the work, 
 but it has not the necessary means. Only the United States, 
 which has both millionaires and scholars, can undertake this 
 work, one that will confound the world by its revelations and 
 cover with glory that greatest of democracies. Let me add that 
 I know of nothing more noble than this proposed revelation of 
 the cradle of the Old World, and I know of no more glittering 
 coin in which the New World can pay its debt of gratitude. 
 
 (Signed) J. N. SVORONOS. 
 
 Kaiserlich Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut, 
 
 Athens, den 26 Oktober 1910. 
 However much has been accomplished by workers in Asia 
 Minor, still its inexhaustible soil would seem to be hardly 
 touched. It is but natural therefore that I and I may speak 
 equally for all my colleagues and for our Institute welcome 
 your new scheme most cordially. If it is realised soon and on 
 a large scale, you will have a twofold cause for satisfaction: 
 1. this important research will link itself naturally to the 
 splendid and disinterested work which the United States, more 
 than any other nation, has for many years devoted to the in- 
 tellectual progress of Asia Minor by founding schools in remote 
 towns; and 2. you may feel proud that what other nations 
 have achieved by government grants and surely these grants 
 and our Institutes are the best proof of the great importance 
 which all European nations attach to such research that this. 
 
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 in your case, is obtained through the enlightened generosity of 
 a private citizen. 
 
 If realised, your scheme will have not only a scientific, but 
 also a fine philanthropic result. For it is known only to special-- 
 ists how largely an extensive excavation contributes to the 
 well being of the local peasantry, giving work to hundreds of 
 men, women and boys, raising the standards of life, often caus- 
 ing flourishing villages to rise where only a few wretched hovels 
 stood before. 
 
 An exploration in Asia Minor on a large scale would be most 
 welcome and important to the American School at Athens, and 
 let me also say that as the Turkish law concedes a part of the 
 objects found to the explorers, your scheme would enrich the 
 American museums by many valuable works of art. 
 
 (Signed) GEORG KARO. 
 
 Ecole Francaise d'Athenes, 
 (Translation.) Paris, 5/ii/1911. 
 
 The first letter addressed to me at Athens perhaps remained 
 at Athens, or was lost between Greece and France. But I am 
 not without some knowledge of your project for archaeological 
 research in Asia Minor and Syria, for I have heard it mentioned 
 sympathetically by several of my colleagues here in Paris and 
 in particular by my eminent friend M. Sal. Reinach. As far as 
 I am informed of the project thus indirectly I cannot but rejoice 
 at it and give my full endorsement. I have myself travelled 
 over a large part of Asia Minor, and I do not need to tell you 
 of the part our School at Athens took for long years in the ex- 
 ploration of that country ; and, moreover, I earnestly hope that 
 we may again be able to undertake work there. My personal 
 experience and my familiarity with the work done there by my 
 predecessors have convinced me that a very great effort must 
 be made in Asia Minor ; all the nations of the Occident could or 
 ought to work together there; and it would seem to me most 
 desirable that the work be undertaken without delay. I take 
 great pleasure in telling you that in any case you can count on 
 our hearty encouragement in the proposed scientific campaign. 
 
 (Signed) M. HOLLEAUX, 
 Directeur de Tficole Francaise d'Athenes. 
 
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 British Archaeological School, 
 
 Athens, Nov. 20, 1910. 
 
 I am much interested in the prospect of such a scheme for the 
 exploration of Asia ]\Iinor and Sj^ria. "Where so much is to be 
 done, there can be no question of interference with other na- 
 tions. It has been becoming increasingly plain of recent years 
 that the key to many archaeological and historical problems lies 
 in Asia Minor and Syria; the Hittites, the Etruscan question, 
 the languages of Asia Minor and their bearing upon Crete and 
 the Aegean races, early Christian architecture, comparative 
 philology. Light on all these points will come from this work 
 and I am most anxious it should be prosecuted. Lydian inscrip- 
 tions now found in Sardes by your countrymen are an earnest 
 of what is to come. A work which will illuminate so many prob- 
 lems of early history and civilization needs no defense from the 
 point of view of archaeology and humanism. It is the thing 
 which we now need more than anything else. 
 
 If the history of the human race is of any value to our civili- 
 zation, then this work is of value and deserves all the support it 
 can get. I heartily hope that the petition may be successful and 
 if at any time I can be of any help in any way, I shall be very 
 pleased. (Signed) R. M. DAWKINS. 
 
 R. Scuola Archaeologica Italiana in Atene, 
 (Translation.) Atene, 25 octobre 1910. 
 
 The idea of large archaeological and historical researches in 
 Asia Minor and Syria, conducted by first-class scientific experts 
 and with the ample means that abounding American wealth is 
 fortunately able to place at the disposal of the excellent Ameri- 
 can scientists, such an idea can find only sympathy and en- 
 couragement on the part of all scholars. And I gladly join those 
 who support the project. 
 
 (Signed) LUIGI PERNIER. 
 
 Institut Archeologique Russe a Constantinople, 
 
 Constantinople, Nov. 10, 1910. 
 Professor Sterrett's plan for systematic and detailed research 
 in Asia Minor and Syria is an expression of a now ripened scien- 
 
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 tific necessity as well as the achievement of a noble idea of a 
 scientific brotherhood. 
 
 I have made several journeys to Syria and Asia and I can 
 bear witness that scientific investigations there will bring rich 
 results of intense interest and great value to general culture. 
 Though my personal sympathies are chiefly turned to the 
 Christian epoch, more especially to the Byzantine middle ages, 
 it is quite possible that Asia Minor and Syria present as great an 
 interest in regard to prehistoric culture and ethnographic re- 
 lations between Asia and Europe. 
 
 (Signed) THEODORE USPENSKY. 
 
 Robert College, Constantinople, 
 
 Boston, Jany. 21, 1911. 
 I have known Professor J. R. S. Sterrett for many years as a 
 gentleman, a scholar, an explorer, an archaeologist and a 
 teacher. I was well acquainted with his work in Asia Minor 
 and Syria, and when he left this work, I felt that it was a great 
 loss to the world. I am glad to know that he is now willing to 
 take it up again, and hope most sincerely that provision can be 
 made for the thorough and long continued exploration of Asia 
 Minor. Much has been done already by European scholars, but 
 far more remains to be done and we Americans ought to do our 
 part of it. 
 
 I take great satisfaction in commending this project of Pro- 
 fessor Sterrett, and it seems to me that the time is now specially 
 favorable for undertaking it. 
 
 ( Signed ) GEORGE WASHBURN, 
 
 President Emeritus of Robert College. 
 
 Endorsement of English, Scotch, and Irish Universities. 
 
 Queen's College, 
 
 Oxford, 8 Dec. 1910. 
 It really seems superfluous for me to say anything in com- 
 mendation of a scheme the merits of which are so evident and 
 which already has such distinguished support. There is per- 
 haps no region where systematic exploration and excavation 
 
Ill- 
 are now more pressing and more rich in promise than in Asia 
 Minor. In furthering such an undertaking the promoting 
 institution would earn the gratitude of all who care for the 
 advance of knowledge. 
 
 (Signed) A. S. HUNT. 
 
 Queen's College, Oxford, 
 
 Nov. 11, 1910. 
 The most important field for archaeological exploration that 
 aAvaits us at present is Asia Minor; we now know that it 
 formed the bridge by which a large part of the civilisation and 
 culture of Asia was carried to Europe, and the key to some of 
 the most important problems in the history of civilisation lies 
 buried there. Hitherto we have been able to do little more than 
 explore the surface of the country, and how much remains to 
 be done even in this respect is known to none better than to 
 yourself; what is now urgently needed is excavation, more 
 especially in the eastern part of the peninsula. The moment is 
 favorable, for the new government in Turkey is alive to the 
 importance of learning something about the older history of the 
 empire and preserving the monuments of the past, and the hin- 
 drances to exploration which formerly existed have been re- 
 moved. 
 
 (Signed) A. H. SAYCE. 
 
 Oxford, 11 November 1910. 
 Of all the regions now accessible to exploration, and as yet 
 incompletely covered, Asia Minor presents the highest prospects 
 of striking and valuable results. We have there now the assur- 
 ance of a range of time only less vast than that offered by 
 Egypt and Babylonia, in which to watch the development and 
 decline of successive human civilizations under the same geo- 
 graphical conditions. These geographical conditions them- 
 selves, meanwhile, present wide contrasts and variations locally 
 within the same region, and it is therefore possible to study geo- 
 graphical distributions of human efforts, social, industrial, and 
 political, under exceptionally favorable circumstances. For the 
 
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 comparative study of civilizations therefore, and for the effects 
 of repeated immigration in particular, the closer study of the 
 history and antiquities of Asia Minor and North Syria is es- 
 sential to our progress at the present stage. It may be . ex- 
 pected to give real knowledge of the modes in which nationali- 
 ties and civilizations are formed, and of the selective and con- 
 trolling influence of geographical conditions upon new peoples. 
 
 I lay great stress on this broad general aspect of research in 
 Asia Minor, because this is the side of it which makes the most 
 general appeal to the statesman, and the man of the world. But 
 I should like also to say how vitally important these researches 
 are to the more special study of the spread of Greek culture 
 in the period after Alexander the Great; the clearest and most 
 remarkable instance in history of the rapid and permanent 
 spread of a living system of ideas over a large external area ; 
 and consequently one of the most important periods of history 
 for the student of institutions and of thought. Professor Ster- 
 rett himself, who has taken such active part in the collection of 
 the evidence, and in the study of the original documents so col- 
 lected by exploration is best able to testify to the scientific value 
 of the results; and also to the large amount of work which still 
 remains to be done on similar lines. I cannot, indeed, conceive 
 any branch of the human sciences which would better repay, by 
 immediate and applicable returns, the appropriation of a con- 
 siderable sum for research in the field. I should only urge that 
 any expedition should be well equipped for the study of the 
 physical conditions of soil, climate, and natural products, as 
 well as for the collection and (if necessary) excavation of the 
 archaeological material. 
 
 The present conditions of Asiatic Turkey are as is known 
 unusually favorable to such exploration ; and I am sure that due 
 weight should be given to this consideration of urgency. We 
 have to take these opportunities as they come ; and, if we miss 
 them, they do not always recur. 
 
 (Signed) JOHN L. ]\IYRES, 
 
 Wykeham Professor of Ancient History in the University of 
 Oxford. 
 
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 Exeter College, Oxford. 
 
 I venture to write expressing my warm sympathy and my 
 earnest hope that so brilliantly conceived a project may be ade- 
 quately endowed. I am convinced that under the leadership of 
 so tried an explorer as Dr. Sterrett such an undertaking will be 
 of the highest interest and profit for all students of the ancient 
 Mediterranean Culture. 
 
 (Signed) LEWIS R. FARNELL, D. Litt. 
 
 F. A. S., Senior Tutor and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford 
 University Lecturer in Classical Archaeology. Corresponding 
 Member of the German Imperial Archaeological Institute. Au- 
 thor of the ''Cults of the Greek States," etc. 
 
 Trinity College, Oxford, Nov. 17, 1910. 
 There can be no project more interesting to the philological 
 and archaeological world than a thorough exploration of Asia 
 Minor, and though this branch of Greek, and to a certain de- 
 gree Latin, Philology, is only incidentally brought before my 
 notice, I should consider it a very fortunate day for the world, 
 if the plan your letter and the printed accompaniment suggest 
 could be carried out effectively, i. e., with thoroughly adequate 
 pecuniary resources and under the guidance of so experienced a 
 leader as yourself. 
 
 (Signed) ROBINSON ELLIS. 
 
 Oxford, Nov. 13,1910. 
 I approve of your plan to conduct an archaeological expedi- 
 tion to Asia Minor. Hittite investigation is especially important 
 for our know^ledge of the evolution of human history. Owing to 
 the great paleographic and linguistic difficulties in the decipher- 
 ment of Hittite, new material will be especially welcome. 
 
 (Signed) STEPHEN LANGDON, 
 Shillito Professor of Assyriology, Oxford. 
 
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 University of Oxford, 
 
 Oxford, 16 Nov., 1910. 
 
 I write to express my cordial sympathy with the application 
 which is being made to enlightened men of wealth for sub- 
 stantial aid to the conduct of archaeological and historical re- 
 search in Asia Minor, and my hope that this aid will not only be 
 given, but will be given under such conditions of permanence 
 as will enable the work to be organised on a satisfactory foot- 
 ing and continued for a generation at least to come. 
 
 With regard to its importance, and the great value of the re- 
 sults which may be confidently expected from it, there is nothing 
 to add to the opinions which have already been expressed by the 
 experts who are most competent to judge. I may allude, how- 
 ever, in -passing to one thing which must appeal to the whole 
 modern world and not to scholars only, that is, to the light which 
 is already being, and may be much more largely, throwii on the 
 modern problems of town-planning by investigations of the man- 
 ner in which analogus problems were dealt with in Asia Minor 
 under the Greek and Graeco-Eoman civilizations. Nor will the 
 work be without high importance in enlarging our knowledge 
 and quickening our appreciation of the whole ancient world 
 in its thought and art as well as in its life and organization 
 from which our own modern world traces its direct descent ; 
 since without understanding of the past it is impossible to 
 understand and to deal practically with the present, or to make 
 confident provision for the future. 
 
 (Signed) J. W. MACKAIL. 
 
 Baliol College, Oxford, Nov. 27, 1910. 
 I shall be obliged if you will add my name to the petitions to 
 endow an expedition for research and excavation. 
 
 (Signed) J. L. STRACHAN-DAVIDSON, 
 
 Master of Baliol College. 
 
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 Cambridge, 6 December 1910. 
 I earnestly hope that the petition for a grant for the pur- 
 pose of carrying on systematic archaeological exploration in 
 Asia Minor may be successful, and that it may receive a liberal 
 grant for a work, which, if adequately supported, would, I have 
 no doubt, make additions of the greatest interest and import- 
 ance to our knowledge of the early history and civilizations of 
 Western Asia. 
 
 (Signed) J. G. FRAZER. 
 
 King's College, 
 Cambridge, Nov. 13, 1910. 
 I welcome with joy the news that there is at least a pros- 
 pect of a well organised Exploration, with a substantial fund 
 behind it, of the lands of Asia Minor, that great meeting-place 
 of so many famous and important civilisations. I earnestly 
 hope that the project may be realised; for of all the enterprises 
 which it will be the duty of archaeological science to undertake, 
 it is, I think, the most PRESSING. Much irretrievable time has 
 already been lost. Numerous priceless stones, w^hich would have 
 furnished keys to historical problems, existed fifty years ago and 
 have now disappeared. This process of destruction is, I believe, 
 advancing more rapidly now, and every year of delay may mean 
 the loss of invaluable records. 
 
 The student of ancient Greek, or Roman, or Byzantine, or 
 Seljuk history is pulled up at every moment by the obscurities 
 of the geography of Asia Minor. No one who has the work of 
 Ramsay so constantly at hand, as I have, can fail to be enthusi- 
 astic in acknowledging all that he has done to illuminate the 
 darkness. But though his genius, enterprise, and courage have 
 achieved wonders, the field is so vast, and the problems so 
 many, that nothing short of work on the scale you contemplate 
 will sufiice. Excavations must come, but surface discovery, to 
 rescue the data of archaeological monuments and to construct 
 adequate maps, is what is really urgent. 
 
 (Signed) J. B. BURY. 
 
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 Gonville and Caius College, 
 
 Cambridge, 8 Nov. 1910. 
 There is in Asia Minor a rich harvest to be garnered, and 
 until its soil has been thoroughly investigated, we shall never 
 be in a position to form adequate judgments upon the early his- 
 tory of Man in those very regions where our race made so many 
 of its earliest steps towards civilisation. I would that we could 
 impress upon the minds of those who will have the disposition 
 of the funds the all-important nature of historical studies. 
 Few yet realize what great problems lie before the human race 
 at no distant future, and when the time comes for the struggle 
 for existence of densely packed populations upon the earth's 
 habitable surface, the lessons learned from the experiences of 
 great races in the past, the causes of their success or their down-i 
 fall, will have a far-reaching practical value. 
 
 (Signed) WILLIAM EIDGEWAY. 
 
 Gonville and Caius College, 
 
 Cambridge, 30 Nov. 1910. 
 You are doing excellent service to the cause of classical schol- 
 arship and archaeological research in putting before American 
 men of wealth and American institutions the great import- 
 ance of renewed archaeological and historical investigations in 
 the region of Asia Minor and Syria. I sincerely hope that your 
 efforts will be rewarded. Your own previous investigations and 
 patient and fruitful labour mark you out as one whose repre- 
 sentations should carry exceptional weight of advocacy. 
 
 (Signed) E. S. EGBERTS. 
 Master of Gonville and Caius College ; late Vice-Chancellor of 
 the University; Editor of an ''Introduction to Greek Epigra- 
 phy.- 
 
 St. John's College, Cambridge, 14 Nov., 1910. 
 I cordially approve of the grand scheme for the archaeological 
 exploration of Asia Minor, which has been proposed by Professor 
 Sterrett, and has already won the good-will of eminent archaeol- 
 ogists throughout the world. 
 
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 The project has with perfect truth been described as one of 
 world-wide scope and human interest. If adequate funds can 
 be provided for a continuous series of years, there is no doubt 
 that the results of the proposed exploration will add much to 
 our knowledge of the history, the art, and the languages of the 
 successive inhabitants of Asia Minor. 
 
 (Signed) J. E. SANDYS, LITT. D, 
 
 Fellow of the British Academy, Public Orator in the Univer- 
 sity of Cambridge, Lane Lecturer at Harvard (1905), Author of 
 the History of Classical Scholarship, etc. 
 
 Gonville and Caius College, 
 
 Cambridge, 9 Nov. 1910. 
 My life has been given to the study of antiquity and when I 
 look back on the progress of archaeology within my memory, 
 I am astounded by the results which have been attained with 
 the aid of very limited resources. A completely new face has 
 been put upon many sections of the past and great historical 
 vistas have been opened up which, when I was young, no one 
 dreamed of. Every department of history has been affected, 
 sacred as well as profane. Yet the amount of work which 
 urgently needs to be done is immense. All nations are taking 
 a quickened interest in this kind of research. American scholars 
 have borne an honourable part in exploration, and it is greatly 
 to be desired that ampler opportunity should be afforded to 
 them, by placing larger means at their disposal. 
 
 (Signed) J. S. REID. 
 
 Christ's College, 
 Cambridge, Nov. 12, 1910. 
 I think your proposed scheme of exploration is of the very 
 highest importance. Asia Minor and Syria are chock full of 
 ancient remains. They are empty of people, and have been so 
 for centuries. Hence the work is easier. But they will not long 
 be so. Population must soon flock into those regions, so fer- 
 tile and healthy, and only await decent government. Then all 
 that is visible will be used or destroj^ed, and the ground occupied. 
 
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 It is not only in topography and history that great discoveries 
 may be expected. Asia Minor and Syria might not have seemed 
 likely places for fine art: but the unequalled sarcophagi of 
 Sidon show that precious treasures may be found anywhere. 
 
 It is a case for every civilized nation to join in a work of 
 world-wide importance, at a time of unique opportunity. 
 
 (Signed) W. H. D. ROUSE, LITT. D. 
 
 University of London, University College, 
 
 London, 3 Dec. 1910. 
 There can be no two opinions as to the importance of the 
 work and your exceptional qualifications to carry it out. Much 
 has been done by individual scholars with scanty or uncertain 
 resources; but what is now wanted, for real progress, is a 
 systematic and comprehensive scheme such as you suggest, with 
 a sufficient subsidy, guaranteed for a number of years, to en- 
 sure that it will be carried out thoroughly and efficiently. No 
 projects could be more worthy of the support of a Foundation 
 commanding large funds, and it is difficult to see how it can be 
 carried out except with such help ; I therefore think it is movst 
 heartily to be commended to an institution with a large endow- 
 ment. (Signed) ERNEST A. GARDNER. 
 
 Cambridge University, 
 
 Cambridge, 20 Jan. 1911. 
 If it is not too late, I wish to express my strong interest in 
 the proposed excavations in Asia Minor and Syria, especially in 
 Asia Minor, and I hope that Professor Sterrett will obtain the 
 assistance sought. 
 
 A. W. VERRALL, 
 (per Margaret de G. Verrall). 
 
 King's College, Cambridge. 
 I have just read Professor Sterrett 's reports on proposed 
 expeditions to Asia Minor and thorough archaeological investi- 
 gations in that country. Allow me to express my opinion as to 
 the inestimable advantages which would be derived from such 
 
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 work, especially if undertaken with ample means put at the 
 disposal of competent men of science. I feel no hesitation in 
 conscientiously maintaining that funds could not be used for a 
 fitter purpose. 
 
 (Signed) CHAS. WALDSTEIN, 
 Reader in Classical Archaeology and Slade Professor of Fine 
 Arts in the University and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. 
 Some time Director of the American School at Athens. 
 
 University of London, University College. 
 
 London, Nov. 16, 1910. 
 With all the support that your admirable scheme for making 
 available the archaeological treasures of Asia Minor has already 
 received it is unnecessary for me to do more than to say that I 
 cordially endorse all that has been said, both as to the excel- 
 lence of the project itself and the need for its speedy execution. 
 
 (Signed) J. P. POSTGATE. 
 
 The University of Liverpool, 
 Institute of Archaeology, Liverpool, Dec. 7, 1910. 
 We unite in expressing our earnest desire that the scheme 
 drawn up by Professor Sterrett for the endowment of an 
 American expedition in Asia Minor may be adopted by the 
 American expedition in Asia Minor may be adopted ; and that 
 the endowment may be a generous one and may be secured for 
 a long term of years, so that it may be possible to plan the work' 
 on a large scale and to carry it out in the most careful and 
 scientific way. Dr. Sterrett 's own reputation as an explorer 
 stands so high as to need no attestation. From personal 
 knowledge some of us can testify that during recent years 
 many ancient monuments in Asia Minor have been destroyed, 
 and that increasing prosperity is likely to hasten the process. 
 As travellers and excavators who have worked for many years 
 in Egypt, Greece and Asia Minor, or as teachers whose lifework 
 has been devoted to classical antiquity, we believe that there is 
 no more promising field for systematic excavation than Asiatic 
 Turkey, the seat of ancient empires of which but little is known. 
 
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 If enlightened men of wealth will furnish means for a thorough 
 exploration of some of the chief sites in this region and for 
 adequate publication of the results, they will make a contribu- 
 tion of incalculable value to the history of human civilisation. 
 (Signed) A. W. W. DALE. 
 
 FRANCIS PIERREPONT BARNARD, 
 R. C. BOSANQUET, 
 
 J. G. FRAZER, 
 
 JOHN GARSTxVNG, 
 
 JOHN L. MYRES, 
 
 PERCY NEWBERRY, 
 
 J. P. POSTGATE. 
 
 The University of Manchester, 
 
 Manchester, December 1st, 1910. 
 AVe are glad to have the opportunity of supporting your im- 
 portant and far-reaching scheme for the exploration of Asia 
 Minor. An institution or men of great wealth will indeed 
 place the whole civilised world in their debt if they adequately 
 endow your expedition. It is unnecessary for us to emphasize 
 the countless problems on which such an expedition will throw 
 light. In Archaeology, History, and Philology alike we shall 
 expect great results, and we cannot foretell over what century 
 or indeed over what millennium they are likely to be most 
 fruitful. The approval that your scheme has already won from 
 scholars all over the world, brings into prominence not only its 
 importance on its own merits, but also the peculiarly happy 
 auguries under which it will be carried into effect. The un- 
 selfish interest that the United States have for many years 
 taken in the people of Asia Minor make it especially appropri- 
 ate that it should be the nation that should undertake this new 
 and on its own lines, equally beneficent Mission. 
 (Signed) RONALD M. BURROWS, 
 
 JAMES TAIT, 
 
 T. F. TOUT, 
 
 JAMES HOPE MOULTON, 
 
 R. SEYMOUR CONWAY, 
 
 J. H. HOPKINSON. 
 
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 University of Birmingham, 
 
 Nov. 12, 1910. 
 We, the undersigned members of the University of Birming- 
 ham, regard archaeological research in Asia Minor and Syria as 
 of great importance in the interest of classical studies and his- 
 toric knowledge. 
 
 (Signed) C. REYMOND BEAZLEY, 
 CHARLES D. CHAMBERS, 
 ROSE SIDGWICK, 
 E. A. SONNENSCHEIN, 
 ST. GEORGE STOCK, 
 E. C. WORDSWORTH. 
 
 University of Bristol, 
 Bristol, Nov. 17, 1910. 
 We have read with sympathy and interest Prof. Sterrett's 
 schemes for exploration in Asia Minor, and should warmly ap- 
 prove of their being^ aided by a grant. 
 
 (Signed) F. BROOKS, M. A., 
 
 HORACE PITMAN, M. A., 
 ERNEST SIBREE, M. A. 
 
 University of Leeds, 
 
 Leeds, Nov. 16, 1910. 
 Your scheme of work must command the sympathy of 
 scholars throughout the world. Its successful accomplishment 
 would serve the best interest of humanity and would do the 
 greatest credit to the enlightened enterprise of America. 
 (Signed) W. RHYS ROBERTS. 
 
 University of Glasgow, 
 
 Glasgow, Nov. 26, 1910. 
 The undersigned members of the staff of this University, 
 having heard that it is proposed to organize an expedition or 
 expeditions to Syria and Asia Minor for the purpose of archae- 
 
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 ological research, desire earnestly to commend the proposal to 
 the consideration of any who may be able to support it. There 
 are many sites of great importance in those countries which 
 need thorough investigation ; and a full exploration of these, or 
 of a considerable part of them, if competently directed, could 
 not fail to produce results of very great value for the extension 
 of human knowledge. 
 
 (Signed) JAMES COOPER, D. D, D. Litt, D. C. L. 
 J. S. PHILLIMOEE, M. A, 
 GILBERT A. DAVIES, M. A., 
 WM. B. STEVENSON, D. Litt.,, 
 G. MILLIGAN, D. D, 
 H. G. LYONS, Hon. D. Sc. 
 
 University of St. Andrews, 
 St. Andrews, N. B., February 14, 1911. 
 The undersigned members of the University of St. Andrews 
 share the lively expectations raised among scholars by the 
 prospect of systematic exploration in Asia Minor and Syria. 
 The enterprise, as outlined by Dr. Sterrett, appears to be 
 planned with adequate skill and. energy. An important consid- 
 eration in its favour is the fact that under the new regime in the 
 Ottoman Empire there is less likelihood of tedious opposition to 
 archaeological research. 
 
 (Signed) JAMES DONALDSON, Principal, 
 JOHN BURNET, 
 ALLAN MENZIES, 
 , W. M. LINDSAY, 
 D. M. KAY, 
 R. K. HANNAY. 
 
 University of Aberdeen, 
 
 Aberdeen, 25 Dec. 1910. 
 I authorize you to add my name to any representation you 
 may be making in the interest of research in Asia Minor and 
 Syria. 
 
 (Signed) J. HARROWER. 
 
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 The University of Dublin, 
 
 Trinity College, Dublin, 6. xii. 1900. 
 AVe desire to add our earnest recommendations to those that 
 have already been given in favor of Professor Sterrett's project. 
 A subvention which would permit of a systematic excavation of 
 sites in Asia Minor, would beyond doubt or question add to the 
 book of human knowledge pages of the profoundest interest 
 and importance. 
 
 (Signed) J. P. MAHAFFY, 
 R. Y. TYRRELL, 
 LOUIS C. PURSER, 
 JOHN I. BEARE, 
 J. GILBERT SMYLY, 
 W. A. GOLIGHER. 
 
 University of Dublin, 
 Trinity College, Dublin, Nov. 15, 1910. 
 
 I am very glad to add my voice to the great European chorus 
 of approyal regarding your scheme of systematic excavation in 
 Asia Minor. To-day when modern science is swallowing up all 
 the spare funds of our Universities, it is of the last importance 
 that the historical side of human knowledge, and that which 
 ministers to real culture, should be liberally supported. The 
 scheme you propose is quite definite, and there is no one that I 
 know better fitted, by both ability and special experience, to 
 carry it out than you are. I have now half a century's experi- 
 ence of these researches in Greece, Egypt, and nearer Asia, and 
 I can conscientiously say that I have never yet seen a scheme 
 proposed which promises larger and more brilliant results. I 
 therefore earnestly hope that this noble investigation may be 
 placed on a proper footing. 
 
 (Signed) J. P. MAHAFFY. 
 
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 University of Dublin, 
 
 Dublin, Nov. 9, 1910. 
 It will give me much pleasure to do what I can for the further- 
 ance of the cause in which you have laboured with such dis- 
 tinguished success, and in which all Hellenists and Humanists 
 throughout the world should take a lively interest. 
 
 (Signed) JOHN I. BE ARE. 
 
 The Queen 's University of Belfast, 
 
 Belfast, Nov. 13, 1910. 
 I have the strongest sympathy with your project for archaeol- 
 ogical research. I think if Americans of great wealth knew of 
 the immense promise of that field, the way in which archaeo- 
 logical' study is hampered for want of funds and the importance 
 of it for a true knowledge of the classical past, they would 
 assent to your request. 
 
 (Signed) S. DILL. 
 
 London, 18 Dec. 1910. 
 
 I entirely endorse all that Professor Sterrett says of the im- 
 mense importance of exploration in the whole of this district. 
 It is full of unsolved problems, all of the most vital significance 
 alike for classical and prehistoric archaeology, for ethnology, 
 history, and geography. A systematic investigation, conducted 
 with adequate funds, could hardly fail to produce scientific re- 
 sults of unique value. Even in a part of the country which is so 
 comparatively well known as the Troad, an enquiry which I 
 have lately been carrying on shews so many serious problems 
 still unsolved, that I am myself planning a short journey there 
 next year, in the belief that fresh light may be thrown on vari- 
 ous aspects of the Homeric problem. 
 
 (Signed) WALTER LEAF. 
 
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 Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, 
 
 Dee. 13, 1910. 
 I have much pleasure in endorsing Professor Sterrett's ap- 
 peal to enlightened Americans of great wealth for assist- 
 ance in prosecuting archaeological and historical research in 
 Asia Minor. His own work in this field, as well as that of others 
 whose names I am glad to see amongst the supporters of the 
 scheme (such as Sir W. M. Ramsay and Mr. Hogarth) have 
 shown not only what can be done, but how much remains to 
 be done, and that without delay, in view^ of the constant de- 
 struction of ancient monuments in Asia Minor. Professor 
 Sterrett rightly insists on the need of assurance that funds for 
 excavation and travel will be continuously forthcoming for a 
 considerable number of years ; and this assurance is just what 
 American wealth is eminently able to furnish. 
 
 (Signed) H. STUART JONES. 
 
 The University of Melbourne, Australia, 
 
 Melbourne, Oct. 20, 1910. 
 As representing I venture to think the opinion of classical 
 and archaeological scholars in this part of the world, I unre- 
 servedly support the petition of Professor Sterrett. My own 
 studies have taught me that it is chieflly to exploration of the 
 kind, and in the places, suggested by him that we must look 
 for an enlightenment for which we are all most eager. The 
 results of recent researches within the Hellenic sphere have 
 opened new and rather startling chapters in the history of the 
 Mediterranean world, and such work as has been performed, 
 however unsystematically and incompletely, in Asia Minor, has 
 not only yielded much information of the highest importance, 
 but has aroused the highest expectations of far-reaching dis- 
 coveries to come. When the governments of some of the most 
 civilised, and yet most practical, nations have lent material as- 
 sistance to smaller explorations, we may be sure that the work 
 is regarded as rich in human interest and likely to offer solid in- 
 tellectual returns. If the study of the early history of the world 
 
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 and its civilisations is worth anything, that worth attaches in a 
 special degree to this project. If there is any value in a sounder 
 understanding of the Old or New Testament, this is the region 
 that most obviously calls for investigation. I cannot conceive 
 of any operations more likely to bring new illumination to the 
 student whether of Biblical history, Hellenic civilisation and 
 literature, or the secular history of some thousands of years 
 than those which Professor Sterrett desires to undertake. 
 
 (Signed) T. G. TUCKER, Dean of the Faculty of Arts. 
 
 Endorsement of Italian Universities. 
 
 University of Rome, 
 
 Rome, 5 xii, 1910. 
 
 I am so convinced of the great utility of your scheme in con- 
 nection with the archaeological exploration of Asia Minor and 
 Syria, that my first thought, as President of the Archaeological 
 Exhibition to be held in Rome next year, was to despatch a 
 mission to Galatia for the reproduction of the temple of Augus- 
 tus, on the walls of which the Res Gestae are engraved. And I 
 am now busy rebuilding here the great structure from casts 
 taken on the spot. The accounts given by the members of the 
 mission of the wonders they have seen on their journey, of the 
 immense possibilities for future discoveries, etc., make our old 
 archaeological mouths water. 
 
 We must remember that there are left but two countries 
 promising extraordinary harvest, at least from my own Roman 
 point of view: Northern Africa (viz., Numidia Mauretania 
 Cyrenaica) and Asia Minor. The French are taking good care 
 of the first. An American and an Italian mission are working 
 Cyrenaica. The only spare field, and a magnificent one indeed, 
 is Asia. Let me hope that you may succeed in your scheme. It 
 is not one of American interest alone : it concerns the whole sci- 
 entific world. 
 
 (Signed) PROF. R. LANCIANI. 
 Regia Accademia der Lincei, 
 
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 University of Rome, 
 (Translation.) Rome, 1 Dec. 1910. 
 
 A thoroughgoing archaeological exploration of Asia Minor 
 and Syria, as planned by Professor Sterrett, is one of the most 
 imperative needs of the science of the past. A whole series of 
 the most important questions must be solved in Asia Minor, 
 and in the very first instance, for prehistoric times, comes the 
 problem of the origin of the Mysian culture. Of scarcely less 
 importance is the elucidation of ethnographical relations. We 
 may be certain that systematic excavations will bring us a host 
 of inscriptions in the native languages of the peninsula. For 
 the Seleucid epoch also, about which we still know very little 
 in detail, we might expect richly illuminating results ; in point 
 of fact the chief capitals of the Seleucid empire, Antioch on the 
 Orontes and Seleucia on the Tigris, have never been methodic- 
 ally investigated. The promoters of the plan would do a 
 great and an ever-lasting service to science, if they would make 
 such an expedition possible. 
 
 (Signed) KARL JULIUS BELOCH. 
 Regia Accademia dei Lincei. 
 
 University of Rome, Sapienza, 
 (Translation.) Rome, 30 November 1910. 
 
 There is no one who is active in the broad domain of archaeol- 
 ogical science who will not hail your project with enthusiasm. 
 The existence of an Institution for the acquisition of knowledge 
 which makes it possible to apply considerable resources to a 
 purely scientific enterprise, and the existence also of men, who, 
 equipped, as you are, with courage, energy, and a rich experience 
 are willing to devote their lives to this undertaking, is such a 
 unique coincidence, that it would be a really irreparable loss, if 
 such an opportunity were allowed to pass by unused. 
 
 Perhaps nowhere else is there a more magnificent field for re- 
 search into human history than Asia Minor, where from the 
 earlier millennia one civilization has followed another civiliza- 
 tion in an unbroken series; where they mutually postulate, in- 
 
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 fluence, and illustrate each other. And nowhere can archae- 
 ology set to work on a larger scale than in Asia Minor, where 
 history speaks almost exclusiv^y from monuments, inscriptions, 
 works of art of every kind, and from the peculiarity of the very 
 soil. 
 
 There can be no doubt but that your plan of combining sys- 
 tematic surface research with excavations is the only correct 
 one. In my opinion the two cannot be separated. 
 
 (Signed) EMANUEL LOEWY. 
 
 University of Bologna, 
 Regia Sopraintendenza agli Scavi e ai Musei Archeologici in 
 
 Bologna, 
 (Translation.) Bologna, 5 dicembre 1910. 
 
 AYe express our earnest hope that the plan of exploring Syria 
 and Asia Minor with rigorous topographical method may be 
 carried into effect. That region, which up to the present has 
 only been explored partially and with interruptions, certainly 
 conceals remains of antiquity and treasures of art, which, if 
 revealed to science, will make precious contributions, not only 
 to the history of those countries, but also to that of the Occi- 
 dent. We cannot conceal the particular interest Italy would 
 have in the discovery in Asia Minor of the traces of the ancient 
 people to whom classical tradition attributed a Lydian origin, 
 and who developed in the heart of the peninsula an advanced 
 civilization, whose monuments are the subject of so many 
 serious controversies. 
 
 Italian students of antiquity expect, however, that from those 
 countries will finally come the light which will clear up the 
 mystery of the origin of the Etruscans. And the ALMA 
 MATER STUDIORUM applauds the scholarly initiative of 
 Professor Sterrett and is confident that Americans of great 
 wealth will be willing to aid the realization of the grand and 
 noble work. 
 (Signed) VITTORIO PUNTONI, Rettore dell' Universita, 
 
 FRANCESCO LORENZO PULLe, Preside della 
 Facolta di Filosofia e Lettere, 
 
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 GIUSEPPE ALBINI, 
 
 I. BENVENUTO SUPINO, 
 
 ALFKEDO TROMBETTI, 
 
 GHERARDO GHIRARDINI, Direttore del Museo 
 
 Civico, 
 AUGUSTO NEGRIOLI, Ispettore del Museo Civico, 
 PERICLE DONATI, Doeente di Areheologia. 
 
 University of Naples, 
 (Translation) Rome, 18 Ottobre 1910. 
 
 I am convinced that nothing but a large and systematical ex- 
 ploration of that vast and important region can give us the 
 materials, now lacking, for studying from every point of view 
 questions whose very existence the excavations already under- 
 taken have but begun to make us suspect. If 'Dr. J. R. S. Ster- 
 rett succeeds in calling into existence an expedition for the ex- 
 ploration of Asia Minor, he will have succeeded in bringing 
 about one of the most useful and splendid scientific enterprises, 
 of our century, to the infinite advantage of science. 
 
 (Signed) ETTORE PAIS, 
 
 University of Pisa 
 Gabinetto di Areheologia della Regia Universita^ 
 (Translation) Pisa, 8. xii. 10 
 
 To all archaeologists and to all students of antiquity Profes- 
 sor Sterrett's project is of consuming interest, because it prom- 
 ises to add to our knowledge of the Mediterranean civilizations ; 
 it is of still greater interest for us Italians in view of the light 
 which excavations have thrown upon Aegean antiquities; it is 
 welcome particularly in Tuscany, where it is hoped that the 
 expedition may make some contribution, even if it be a negative 
 one, towards a solution of the vexed question of the Etruscans^ 
 Professor Sterrett's very plan, which is the result of his knowl- 
 edge of the country, and his great ability as an explorer, if 
 backed by the necessary funds, guarantee success. 
 
 (Signed) DR. LUCIO MARIANI. 
 Regia Accademia dei Lincei, 
 
ISO- 
 
 University of Pisa, 
 Facolta di Filosofia e Lettere, 
 
 Pisa, addi 14, xii, 1910. 
 The undersigned, Professors in the University of Pisa, concur 
 with Dr. Lucio Mariani in the above statement. 
 
 (Signed) VINCENZO COSTANZI, 
 CARLO FORMICHI, 
 DONATO JAJA, 
 ALESSANiDRO TARTARA, 
 ARTURO SOLARI, 
 CLEMENTE MERLO, 
 LEANDRO BIADENE, 
 CARLO ERRERA, 
 AUGUSTO MANCINI, 
 FRANCESCO ZAMBALDI. 
 
 University of Pavia, 
 
 Gabinetto di Archeologia, 
 (Translation.) Pavia, 23 novembre 1910. 
 
 We endorse the project for archaeological and historical re- 
 rearch in Asia Minor and Syria proposed by Professor Sterrett. 
 We are all the more interested in the matter because the pro- 
 posed researches also have to do with epochs most important for 
 the study of the Middle Ages. 
 
 (Signed) GIOVANNI CANNA, 
 GIACINTO ROMANO, 
 GIOVANNI NICCOLINI, 
 EGIDIO GORRA, 
 PIER ENEA GUARNERIO, 
 CARLO PASCAL, 
 VITTORIO CIAN, 
 GIOVANNI PATRONI. 
 
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 British School of Rome, 
 
 Rome, Dec. 4, 1910. 
 The importance of archaeological and historical research in 
 Asia Minor and Syria can hardly be overestimated, and in it 
 scholars of all nations have cooperated in the past, and will in 
 the future. You inform me that Sir W. M. Ramsay is in hearty 
 sympathy with your scheme, and would take an active part in 
 it. I could wish for no better guarantee; and I cordially ex- 
 press a hope that your efforts may be successful. 
 
 (Signed) THOMAS ASHBY, 
 Director of the British School at Rome. 
 
 Ecole Francaise de Rome, 
 (Translation.) Rome, le 14 Janvier 1911. 
 
 I should have been one of the first to welcome Professor 
 Sterrett's skilful and discriminating plan; for I too, even I, 
 have ranged the mountains of Asia Minor, though 'tis long ago, 
 and I preserve as precious treasures my recollections of that 
 country. I come late, but my enthusiasm is not less than that of 
 others. For so much of the past of Man, so many of the roots 
 of our civilization lie buried in the soil of that old land ! And 
 it is so imperatively necessary to save for history all that is left 
 of those records ! 
 
 The Turks are undergoing a new birth, their country is being 
 opened to commerce and the industries ! According to a fateful 
 law the march of modern progress will soon annihilate the rec- 
 ords of the past, unless we make haste to forbid it. 
 
 There is no scientific task more worthy of American wealth 
 and American initiative. In placing Mr. Sterrett at the head of 
 the enterprise, the Americans will have confided the leadership 
 to a man who has abundantly proved his ability in the archae- 
 ological exploration of Asia Minor, and whose experience in this 
 kind of research is universally appreciated. 
 
 ( Signed ) L. DUCHESNE, 
 
 Directeur de I'Ecole Francaise de Rome; Membre de I'lnsti- 
 tut de France; Membre de I'Academie Francaise. 
 
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 American School of Classical Studies in Rome, 
 
 November 20, 1910. 
 The project of investigating Asia Minor appeals to me very 
 strongly. I do not know of any piece of archaeological work 
 which would be so likely to give results of a really significant 
 character. But the work must be done at once and on a large 
 scale, if the thing is to be done at all. It is a wonderful op- 
 portunity for the trustees of any large educational fund, and 
 I should think that their very broadmindedness would cause 
 this matter to appeal to them. 
 
 (Signed) JESSE BENEDICT CARTER. 
 
 Imperial Austrian Archaeological Institute, 
 (Translation.) 
 
 Sekretariat-Smyrna, Smyrna, 28. xi. 1910. 
 
 No one acquainted with the facts will doubt to-day that in 
 Asia Minor, the region of the upper Euphrates, and in Syria 
 there are problems confronting science, w^hich must be solved 
 before it will be possible to understand those important periods 
 in which the civilizations of the old Orient and the Occident 
 influenced or determined each other. In this influence Asia 
 Minor played not merely the role of a passive intermediary be- 
 tween the Far East and Europe in all the epochs in question 
 the Hittite, the Hellenistic, the Early Christian, the Byzantine, 
 the Seljuk but it produced its own civilizations, some of which 
 were most important and pregnant with consequences for after 
 times. Therefore every one Avould rejoice greatly, if an insti- 
 tution or a man would place at the disposition of Professor 
 Sterrett the means necessary for solving the problems men- 
 tioned. 
 
 It strikes me that in the execution of the task a limited field 
 should be undertaken, even if the most unlimited means be 
 granted. I can only second the utterance of Th. Wiegand. I 
 dissent from his views, however, in this particular, that I 
 should not recommend Cilicia as the province to be explored 
 first, though many arguments might be adduced therefor. I 
 
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 should advise the American explorers to pitch their permanent 
 camp in Eastern Asia Minor, and to begin there with numerous 
 excavations and exhaustive surface research, because not only 
 can the oldest history and the ethnology of Asia Minor be 
 gained from the monuments of the Hittite period, but also a 
 way to the understanding of the religion of Asia Minor will be 
 opened up. Then, when the culture of these regions in the 
 varying epochs by no means omitting the Early Christian and 
 Byzantine epochs shall have become accurately known to us, 
 then, it will be time enough to let the work radiate from its 
 centre, by way of Phrygia and Lydia, to the western seaboard 
 and Europe. There are very many problems in the history of 
 art and in the history of religion to make mention of only two 
 sciences ^which cannot be solved at present because they can- 
 not take into account the unknown factor of the culture of In- 
 terior Asia Minor. 
 
 (Signed) DR. JOSEF KEIL. 
 
 Sekretar des k. osterreichischen archaeologischen Institutes 
 in Smyrna. 
 
 Institut Francais d' Archeologie Orientale du Caire, Egypte, 
 (Translated.) Le Caire, le 10 decembre 1910. 
 
 The realization of Professor Sterrett's plan will have the 
 happiest consequences for history and archaeology in general, 
 in that it will permit us to study, before it is too late, the re- 
 mains of the past, which are threatened with annihilation by 
 the introduction of modern civilization into those countries. 
 
 It is in every way to be desired that effective support be 
 given to this enterprise, whose utility is clearly apparent to all 
 who are interested in the Orient. 
 
 (Signed) E. CHASSINAT. 
 
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 Endorsement of Russian Universities. 
 
 University of Moscow, 
 
 Moscow, Dec. 25, 1910. 
 It has been a very great pleasure for ns to learn that Profes- 
 sor Sterrett is putting forward a scheme for systematic archaeo- 
 logical research in Asia Minor and Syria. The historical prob- 
 lems of which he speaks are of the most urgent kind. It will be 
 a memorable day in the annals of our branch of historical 
 studies when a great Institution or a gentleman of great wealth 
 adopts the project and thus enables so distinguished an archae- 
 ologist as Professor Sterrett to carry out his plan. The Rus- 
 sians have some special reasons for taking a keen interest in the. 
 fate of the scheme. Inter alia, a thorough exploration of the 
 antiquities of Asia Minor may throw much new light on the 
 obscure history of the Russian Caucasus. 
 
 (Signed) DR. SERGEI SOBOLEWSKY, 
 DR. APOLLO HRUSKA, 
 DR. NICOLAUS NOVOSSADSKY, 
 DR. A. NIKITSKY. 
 
 University of Odessa, 
 
 Odessa, 20 Nov. 1910. 
 
 We join our voices to those numerous and authoritative ones 
 in sympathetic support of the project formed by Professor 
 Sterrett for a systematic study of Asia Minor, and we think its 
 realization would be of incomparable importance. 
 
 A complete, well-planned, and many-sided study of this im- 
 portant country has never been undertaken. Research, having 
 in view the study of the past of Asia Minor throughout its en- 
 tire history, from the time of the Hittites down to that of the 
 Crusaders, would serve as a school of method, the good results 
 of which would be felt in all historical science. 
 
 We can not help pointing out that as inhabitants of the Black 
 Sea coast, we are especially desirous of seeing Professor Ster- 
 rett 's project realized, for the beginnings of our own culture 
 are closely connected with the fortunes of Asia Minor, and from 
 their study we may expect rich materials for illustrating the 
 
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 history of our own local culture. The realization of Professor 
 Sterrett's project will bring invaluable gains to science and 
 high honour to the Institution that will aid in this new conquest 
 of scientific thought. 
 
 (Signed) E. von STERN, 
 
 A. PAWLOWSKY, 
 
 A. THOMSON, 
 
 S. PAPADIMITRIU, 
 
 B. WARNECKE, 
 M. MANDES. 
 
 Endorsement of Spanish Universities. 
 
 University of Madrid, 
 Universidad Central de Espana, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras. 
 (Translation.) Madrid, 7 de Diciembre de 1910. 
 
 We the undersigned, all Professors of the Faculty of Letters 
 in some one of the sections that compose it, Philosophy, Letters, 
 and History, take pleasure in informing you directly of the 
 resolution adopted by this Faculty in session assembled on the 
 30th of November last, which literally transcribed reads as 
 follows : 
 
 ' ' This Faculty endorses with the greatest enthusiasm the plan 
 for archaeological research in Asia Minor and Syria, which, 
 with the help of a subvention for the promotion of research, 
 it is proposed that the most competent persons shall carry on 
 and continue for a long time ; and at the same time this Faculty 
 can do no less than encourage the learned Professor Sterrett 
 to persevere in so idealistic a plan, which will enable modern 
 scientists to solve a host of problems, which, even after the 
 lapse of many centuries, are still such enigmas that the history 
 and civilization of peoples of remote antiquity are inadequately 
 known. ' ' 
 
 Those who sign this communication reiterate, here, that' 
 they join other Universities abroad in heartily endorsing 
 the plan, and in believing that the splendid thought will have 
 the greatest results for culture and civilization. 
 
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 (Signed) DR. MARIANO VISCASILLAS Y URRIZA, Dean, 
 DR. FRANCISCO FERNANDEZ Y GONZALEZ, 
 DR. ANTONIO GONZALEZ Y GARBIN, 
 DR. MIGUEL MORAY TA, 
 
 MANUEL MARIA DEL VALLE Y CARDENAS, 
 MAYOR GARCIA MORENO, 
 DR. JUAN GUTIEIRAS GARIJO, 
 EDUARDO DE HINOJOSA, 
 CAYO ORTEGA MAYOR, 
 JUAN ORTEGA Y RUBTO, 
 JOSE ALEMANY, 
 MARIO DAZA DE CAMPOS, 
 JUAN CATALINA GARCIA, 
 DR. ANTONIO SANCHEZ MOGUEL, 
 JOSE GILES Y RUBIO, 
 DR. ENRIQUE SOMS Y CASTELIN, 
 M. SANZ BENITO, 
 RAMON MENENDEZ PIDAL, 
 DR. ELIAS TORMO, 
 
 DR. ANDRES OVEJERO Y BUSTUMANTE, 
 DR. ADOLFO BONILLA Y SAN MARTIN, 
 DR. PIO ZABALA Y LERA, 
 DR. JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSEL, 
 DR. R. AMADEO DE LOS RIOS, 
 DR. ANDRES TORRES RICA, 
 DR. MIGUEL ASIN, 
 DR. ELOY BULLON, 
 DR. JOSE MARIA CASTILLA, 
 JUAN HUSTADO, 
 DR. EMETERIO MAZORRIAGA, 
 CUALCUIJANO 
 
 University of Seville, 
 Universidad Literaria de Sevilla, 
 (Translation.) Sevilla, 20 de Diciembre 1910. 
 
 Professor Sterrett's plan for investigations in Syria and Asia 
 Minor deserves the unreserved endorsement of all students of 
 archaeology, history, or art, because many questions as yet 
 
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 problematical, will be cleared up, questions that concern the 
 origin of the eastern Mohammedan civilization, which is so 
 closely allied to Arabic art in Spain, particularly in Andalousia ; 
 and because it will connote progress in the knowledge of ori- 
 ental antiquities, Hittite, Greek, and Eoman. 
 
 (Signed) FKANCISCO PAGES, Rector, 
 
 FELICIANO CANDAU, 
 
 FRANCISCO MURILLO, 
 
 ANTONIO COLLANTES, 
 
 ANTONIO BALLESTEROS Y BERETTA, 
 
 CLAUDIO SANS. ARISMENDI. 
 
 University of Seville, 
 (Translation.) Sevilla, 22 de Diciembre de 1910. 
 
 In view of my official position as Rector of the University it 
 gives me great satisfaction to reiterate what was said in the 
 letter of the 20th, a letter which I found pleasure in signing 
 along with other professors of the faculty of Philosophy and 
 Letters, in the section of History. Research in Syria and Asia 
 Minor will clear up many very interesting points of history and 
 archaeology. 
 
 (Signed) FRANCISCO PAGES, 
 El Rector de la Universidad Literaria de Sevilla. 
 
 University of Seville, 
 (Translation.) Sevilla, 22 Diciembre 1910. 
 
 It was with real enthusiasm that I placed my signature beside 
 those of my colleagues at Seville. But as Professor of Universal 
 History, though my attention is devoted chiefly to oriental 
 studies, I must write to applaud warmly your happy initiative, 
 to encourage you in your plan, and to assure you that I shall 
 follow with most lively interest the outcome of your undertak- 
 ing, and I am at all times ready to cooperate, in my modest way, 
 in a work of such scientific importance. 
 
 It may be that my sentiments are colored by my many years 
 
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 of study, but I must express my opinion that the greatest duty 
 of humanity is to discover the whole truth in regard to its 
 origin, in regard to the sources of its civilization ; to open fully 
 the chest, all covered, as it is, with the dust of centuries and as 
 yet only half-opened, the chest in which without doubt there 
 lies preserved the larger part of the sublime inheritance which 
 ancient peoples left for us as the fruit of their unceasing toil 
 an inheritance that makes for civilization and progress. 
 
 I congratulate you on your praiseworthy initiative; I hope 
 that you will not cease in your disinterested work, for which 
 historical science will thank you, and I should be grateful if you 
 would inform me from time to time in regard to the state of the 
 work. I know that few can help you less than I, but few will be 
 so keenly, so profoundly interested in the outcome of your 
 project, and in the result which the future reserves for the in- 
 vestigations that will some day be made. 
 
 (Signed) FELICIANO CANDAU. 
 
 University of Barcelona, 
 Universidad Literaria de Barcelona, 
 Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, 
 
 Barcelona, 1st December 1910. 
 The undersigned. Professors in the Faculty of Philosophy and 
 Literature in the University of Barcelona, give their enthusias- 
 tic approval to Professor Sterrett's plea for research in Asia 
 Minor and Syria. 
 
 The various and important civilizations which flourished in 
 those countries, and particularly in Asia Minor, which has 
 always been the connecting link between Europe and Asia, and 
 :he splendid results achieved by Dr. Schliemann and other more 
 recent explorers lead us to say that to disinter the treasures 
 which Asia Minor and Syria conceal beneath their soil is of the 
 greatest interest and of world-wide scope for Archaeology, 
 Epigraphy, Legislation, and for the History of Culture in gen- 
 eral. For knowledge gained by research in those countries 
 
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 would rectify many opinions which are at present accepted and 
 would fill many blanks which obstruct historical research. 
 
 We, therefore, ardently hope that Professor Sterrett's plan 
 may be carried into effect^ as it really deserves to be, and that 
 excavations and research may be inaugurated as soon as pos- 
 sible. 
 
 (Signed) DR. MANUEL SORIANO, 
 DR. FRANCISCO BARJAU, 
 DR. MARTINIANO MARTINEZ, 
 DR. LUIS SEGALA Y ESTALELLA, 
 FRANCISCO NABOT Y FORNAS, 
 DR. JOSE BANQUE. 
 
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 Endorsement of American Institutions and American Scholars. 
 
 Cornell University, 
 
 Office of the President. 
 
 I have gone carefully over Professor Sterrett's Outline of a 
 Plan for the Exploration of Asia Minor, and I am moved to 
 write what I think of it. 
 
 Of course I know Professor Sterrett well. I have heard him 
 lecture here on the subject of his archaeological explorations in 
 Asia Minor, and I have the highest opinion of his competency 
 for that work. Naturally, therefore, a scheme recommended by 
 him has in my mind the reinforced argument of the scholar 
 behind it. 
 
 But even the scheme itself is one which I think should com- 
 mend it highly to endowed institutions or men of wealth and 
 culture. It is a clear opportunity to make additions to human 
 knowledge. And I should confidently expect that the investiga- 
 tions would throw a new light on ancient geography, history, 
 law, and customs, as well as on the early history of Christianity 
 in the remoter provinces of the Roman Empire. 
 
 Professor Sterrett explains very clearly that this material is 
 rapidly disappearing. This presents a consideration of great 
 force in favor of immediate action. Even in the last few years 
 materials known to Professor Sterrett himself have already dis- 
 appeared. What is likely to happen, if the work of investiga- 
 tion is long postponed, we can readily imagine. 
 
 This is a species of investigation for which any institution 
 whose sphere it is to promote the acquisition and dissemination 
 of knowledge seems to me peculiarly adapted and to which 
 indeed it is especially summoned. Our government cannot un- 
 dertake the work ; it is beyond the reach of our colleges, uni- 
 versities and learned societies, and unless an American institu- 
 tion or Americans of great wealth can be induced to supply the 
 funds for the work of research, it seems to me practically cer- 
 tain that this field of investigation cannot be cultivated by 
 American scholars. 
 
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 I strongly endorse the scheme. I recognize Professor Ster- 
 rett 's fitness for undertaking the work a fitness brought about 
 both by extensive and accurate scholarship and by actual expe- 
 rience in the work of investigation and I earnestly hope that 
 in some way a grant may be made to enable him to carry out 
 the explorations he proposes. 
 
 (Signed) J. G. SCHURMAN, 
 
 President of Cornell University. 
 
 Cornell University, 
 
 Ithaca, N. Y., March 20, 1911. 
 
 The importance of Asia Minor as a field of scientific explora- 
 tion can scarcely be overestimated. No part of this territory 
 has yet been properly surveyed, and much of it has not been 
 explored at all. Numerous monuments of the past are likely to 
 exist still above ground. Discoveries of this kind are constantly 
 made by travelers. What is needed is a systematic search. 
 Under the ground lie the remains of bygone civilizations. The 
 finds at Boghaz Keui, the capital of the Hittite empire, indicate 
 what may be expected, if careful excavations were undertaken. 
 Only by long continued work, carried' on in a competent man- 
 ner, at a large number of places, can we hope to secure the 
 means of deciphering the Hittite language and of unravelling 
 the mysterious history of the Hittites. Many centres of Urar- 
 tian, Chaldian, and Mannaean life in Anatolia, of the Phrygian, 
 Lydian, and Cilician empires, of Greek civilization on the 
 Aegean and the Euxine, should be excavated. Antiquities 
 throwing light upon Persian, Armenian, Macedonian, Roman, 
 Byzantine, Seljuk and Osmanli control should be systematically 
 looked for. Numerous sites of importance in different periods 
 should be identified. 
 
 There is an enormous work to be done in Asia Minor, promis- 
 ing rich returns. The time has come when it should be done on 
 a large scale, in the pursuit of a comprehensive plan, with 
 ample means, adequate equipment, and the most approved 
 methods. Much has been accomplished by other nations, espe- 
 
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 eially by Germany and by the Turkish government. It would 
 be an honor to America, if our country would do for Asia 
 Minor what France has done for Egypt, Tunis and Algiers. 
 
 The plan outlined by Professor Sterrett deserves the most 
 careful consideration and the heartiest support. It is a fortu- 
 nate circumstance that it is possible, at the present time, to 
 begin so vast and significant an enterprise under the leadership 
 of a man like Professor Sterrett. His previous experience in 
 this field, his familiarity with all the problems involved, his 
 ripe scholarship, his sound practical judgment, and his abundant 
 enthusiasm combine to make him the natural leader in a work 
 that commands the interest and sympathy of every Orientalist, 
 historian, and student of antiquity. 
 
 (Signed) NATHANIEL SCHMIDT, 
 
 CHAS. E. BENNETT, 
 
 GEOKGE P. BRISTOL, 
 
 CHARLES L. DURHAM, 
 
 LANE COOPER, 
 
 CHARLES H. HULL, Dean, 
 
 WM. A. HAMMOND, 
 
 HENRY A. SILL, 
 
 H. C. ELMER, 
 
 EUGENE P. ANDREWS, 
 
 HORACE L. JONES, 
 
 GEORGE L. BURR, 
 
 JULIAN P. BRETZ, 
 
 J. HfiBRARD. 
 
 Cornell University, 
 
 Department of Latin. 
 I should be surprised if any other project for research could 
 command the cordial unanimity of support which has been 
 evoked by Professor Sterrett 's proposal to conduct an expedi- 
 tion of exploration in Asia Minor and Syria. Though I have for 
 a long time appreciated the splendid opportunities afforded by 
 those lands for enriching our knowledge of the past, and 
 though I have been impressed by the great importance of 
 
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 promptness in undertaking the work, yet I have been astonished 
 to see that from every quarter has come an almost immediate 
 endorsement of Professor Sterrett's plans. 
 
 Equally important is Professor Sterrett's own personality. In 
 the opinion of those who know his special gifts for the kind of 
 work he proposes, and who recall his brilliant achievements in 
 remaking large portions of the map of Asia Minor, the present 
 opportunity to secure his direction of fresh archaeological un- 
 dertakings in the same quarter is one to be taken advantage of 
 without delay. Such a chance is not likely to offer itself again. 
 America's contributions to higher scholarship and research 
 have in the past been so meagre that it would be a thousand 
 pities to let pass this unique opportunity of making invaluable 
 additions to knowledge under the lead of an American scholar 
 of proved capacity. 
 
 CHARLES E. BENNETT, 
 Lately President of the American Philological Association. 
 
 Cornell University. 
 The importance of the results that would be achieved by such 
 an exploration, if properly conducted, can hardly be overesti- 
 mated. And I doubt whether any man could be found, either 
 in this country or abroad, more admirably fitted in every way 
 to have charge of such a project than Professor Sterrett. He 
 has had years of experience in similar work in the Orient, and 
 his publications embodying the results of his explorations are 
 world-renowned. He has now outlined a project that promises 
 results in comparison with which his earlier work, important as 
 that work was, seems almost insignificant. No one who knows 
 the man doubts his ability to accomplish the results he has in 
 view. In common with all who realize the importance to the 
 world of the work he has mapped out, I sincerely hope that the 
 funds necessary for its successful accomplishment may be made 
 available. 
 
 H. C. ELMER. 
 
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 Cornell University. 
 I have personally been much impressed with the value of the 
 scheme which Professor Sterrett has in mind. Speaking par- 
 ticularly from the standpoint of physiography, I would say that 
 it has long been my opinion that study in this region would 
 yield results of the very highest importance. I should consider 
 it a matter of very great interest and importance if such a 
 broad-gauged plan as Professor Sterrett has outlined could be 
 undertaken. I should be greatly surprised if such a study did 
 not bring out geographical and geological results of intense 
 interest and great value. 
 
 (Signed) R. S. TARR. 
 
 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 The Psychological Laboratory. 
 
 As regards the fitness of Professor Sterrett to conduct the 
 explorations which he has outlined there can, I think, be no 
 shadow of doubt. Professor Sterrett 's past training and 
 achievements, and the thorough knowledge and great enthusi- 
 asm displayed in his present proposals, speak for themselves. 
 
 As regards the value of the proposed work there can also, in 
 my opinion, be no doubt whatever. I have followed the progress 
 of the science with interest, from the outside, and I do not think 
 any one will dispute the contention that Asia Minor is by far the 
 most promising ground for research at present available. 
 
 Personally, I have two special interests in the work. The one 
 is that an anthropologist might do very valuable work for com- 
 .parative psychology by an examination of the original inhabi- 
 tants of Asia Minor, who still survive in a subordinate and de- 
 graded state. I have in mind such work as has recently been 
 done by Drs. Rivers and Myers on the Cambridge Anthropo- 
 logical Expedition to Torres Straits. I should hope, that is, 
 "that the anthropologist might be a man with psychological 
 training. 
 
 I notice also with great pleasure, that Professor Sterrett asks 
 for a number of young university men to accompany the expe- 
 dition, so to speak, as apprentices. 
 
 (Signed) E. B. TITCHENER. 
 
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 Illinois College, 
 Jacksonville, Illinois. 
 
 The time is now ripe for Americans to offer to the world as- 
 brilliant and as lasting achievements in the sphere of the hu- 
 manities and natural sciences as they have in the realm of 
 commerce and mechanics. As Professor Sterrett has set forth 
 in his proposition there is nowhere on earth so vast and im- 
 portant a field for research in those sciences that treat of man- 
 kind as the district lying between the highlands of Persia and 
 the Mediterranean Sea. He has called to your attention the 
 obstacles which have prevented a careful scientific study of this 
 country and the necessity of undertaking the work immediately 
 with full provision for a long and exhaustive campaign. 
 
 The United States is in a peculiarly favorable position for 
 this task, for it alone of the progressive nations of the world 
 can go into Turkey free from the suspicion of desiring to impair 
 the integrity of the Turkish Empire, and so their scholars will 
 be allowed more freedom in making exact surveys. 
 
 It is a matter of shame to American scholars who have vis- 
 ited the Orient to see how important work has suffered from 
 lack of sufficient means to carry it to completion. German and 
 French scholars are provided by their governments with means 
 to work at their own discretion and so their labors have been 
 thorough and exhaustive. The most serious handicap encoun- 
 tered by the American scholar and scientist is the demand made 
 upon him to produce something in return for a given amount of 
 support. Accordingly his results are generally abortive or 
 merely tentative. Those who give money for exploration and 
 excavations are prone to judge the value of the work done by 
 the positive results in monuments, sculpture, inscriptions, etc. 
 In science, however, the negative results have an equal value, 
 and if anything lasting or permanent is to be produced by 
 American scholarship, scholars and scientists must receive con- 
 tinuous loyal support whether their results be positive or 
 negative. 
 
 For these reasons I respectfully urge that Professor Sterrett 
 be granted the full assistance that he desires for the accomplish- 
 
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 ment of this most important work. I believe that a large 
 amount of money should be appropriated, for there is no field 
 of investigation fraught with more interest to scientists and to 
 humanists. I believe that it should be given without reference 
 to time or immediate results, for scholars can produce perma- 
 nent results only when allowed to work out a problem with 
 minute and exhaustive study. I believe that this project should 
 be entered upon now, for the material with which scholars must 
 work is fast disappearing at the hands of dealers in antiquities, 
 of builders, and of fanatics. 
 
 As to my belief in Professor Sterrett's fitness for the task I 
 can only state that in my opinion there is no other man in 
 America so eminently adapted to the work as he is. In the first 
 place he is probably more familiar than any other American 
 with the climate, the people and conditions of life and travel in 
 the countries where the work must be done. I am quoting his 
 great teacher, Professor Ramsay, when I say that very few oc- 
 cidentals have shown the ability to gain the respect and confi- 
 dence of oriental peoples to such a degree as Professor Sterrett. 
 In addition he has acquired experience in the methods of ex- 
 ploration and investigation in the East serving an apprentice- 
 ship under Professor Ramsay and by independent travels of his 
 own. Finally I myself know him to be a man of indefatigable 
 zeal in the pursuit of his chosen studies, of high faith in the 
 importance to mankind of scientific research in the field of 
 classical and Oriental history, and of an integrity of character 
 which will insure the conscientious expenditure of every dollar 
 of the desired appropriation where it will count the most in 
 furthering this enormous and important undertaking. 
 
 The project is one of great moment to human knowledge and 
 therefore to mankind. The completion of such a work will 
 redound infinitely to the glory of the American Nation and will 
 increase its influence among the other peoples of the world. 
 
 (Signed) CLARENCE 0. HARRIS. 
 
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 Harvard University, 
 Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A., Jan. 11, 1911. 
 The undersigned. Professors in Harvard University, desire to 
 emphasize the importance of the investigation of Asia Minor 
 and northern Syria proposed by Professor Sterrett. The region 
 is one of extraordinary interest, containing as it does numerous 
 remains of Hittite, classic, and Christian times. The field has 
 been only partially examined. Good work has been done by 
 German, Austrian, English, and American explorers, but the 
 greater part of the territory is still untouched. 
 
 The demand for speedy exploration is pressing. Year by year 
 the monuments which might add to our knowledge of the past 
 are perishing. There is now a unique opportunity for scientific 
 investigation which would doubtless yield results of the highest 
 value for the history of civilization, both Christian and pre- 
 Christian. We therefore commend most earnestly the proposed 
 plan of research in Asia Minor and northern Syria. 
 (Signed) CEAWFORD H. TOY, 
 GEORGE P. MOORE, 
 DAVID G. LYON, 
 WILLIAM W. GOODWIN, 
 HERBERT WEIR SMYTH, 
 ALBERT A. HOWARD, 
 CHARLES BURTON GULICK, 
 CLIFFORD H. MOORE, 
 JAMES HARDY ROPES, 
 WILLIAM SCOTT FERGUSON, 
 EDWARD KENNARD RAND, 
 GEORGE H. CHASE, 
 CARL N. JACKSON, 
 WILLIAM R. ARNOLD. 
 
 Harvard University, 
 Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 10, 1911. 
 In addition to the expression of interest in the proposed ex- 
 pedition to Asia Minor and Syria contained in the letter signed 
 by me in conjunction with other Harvard professors I wish to 
 
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 say individually that a thorough examination of this region 
 seems to me to be one of the most pressing needs of our times. 
 The questions on which light may be thrown by such an exami- 
 nation are of high importance for the history of early Western 
 civilization as well as for the development of early Christianity. 
 So large an apparatus is required in order that the work may 
 be properly done that only a well-endowed body would be able 
 to furnish the requisite pecuniary means. I hope that advan- 
 tage will be taken of the opportunity here offered to do a noble 
 work. I earnestly commend Professor Sterrett and the expedi- 
 tion to favorable consideration. 
 
 (Signed) CRAWFORD H. TOY. 
 
 Harvard University, 
 
 Semitic Museum, 
 Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 19, 1911. 
 My views of the proposed archaeological investigation of 
 Asia Minor and North Syria are expressed in a paper signed by 
 several of our Harvard Professors. But I write to say that I 
 hope the money may be found for the enterprise, and that I 
 feel sure of large returns in the increase of knowledge which 
 such investigation will yield. 
 
 (Signed) DAVID G. LYON, 
 
 Excavator of Samaria. 
 
 Harvard University. 
 
 The countries of the old world, England, France, Germany, 
 Austria, Italy, and others, have conferred signal benefits upon 
 science in laying bare the records of early Oriental and Hel- 
 lenic civilizations. Our country alone has not yet ranked itself 
 in equal measure with these in advancing the knowledge of 
 mankind in Asia Minor. In Europe the government itself or 
 long established scientific associations have supported the work 
 of surface research and excavation. In the United States the 
 anthropologist and archaeologist can look only to richly en- 
 dowed institutions animated by a like idealistic purpose. As 
 
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 a people we must first assure ourselves of the substantial value 
 of any undertaking, and that assurance once gained we devise 
 far-reaching and thoroughgoing plans to accomplish the end in 
 question. 
 
 In the present instance it must be the opinion of any one 
 qualified to express an opinion that research in different quar- 
 ters of Asia Minor, the home of many of those influences which 
 still are a power in modern thought, cannot but be of unique 
 profit to science without respect of nationality. Nor can any 
 one doubt that the scheme outlined by Professor Sterrett, him- 
 self an experienced explorer in those regions, bears the mark 
 of acquaintance at first hand with the chief problems at stake 
 and the practical methods to be employed. To secure the best 
 results in the most effective way there is necessary an adequate 
 subvention carefully distributed between initial outlay and suc- 
 cessive annual expenditures continued without interruption 
 through a series of years. The plan is comprehensive, the 
 methods are well formulated, the gain will be large and lasting, 
 and the honor commensurate with the dignity of the enterprise. 
 (Signed) HERBERT WEIR SMYTH, 
 
 Eliot Professor of Greek Literature in Harvard University; 
 Sometime President of the American Philological Association. 
 
 Harvard University, 
 Cambridge, Mass., January 9, 1911. 
 I sincerely hope that some institution may be moved to under- 
 take the exploration in Asia Minor which Professor Sterrett 
 proposes. 
 
 It simetimes seems as if the solution of all the problems of the 
 Eastern Mediterranean Basin was buried somewhere in Asia 
 Minor. 
 
 (Signed) GEORGE F. MOORE. 
 
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 Harvard University, 
 Cambridge, Massachusetts, Jan. 16, 1911. 
 I am glad to have an opportunity to say that in my judgment 
 Syria and Asia Minor were connected genetically or closely 
 with the most significant historical movements between the 
 time of Alexander the Great and the Fourth Crusade. The 
 character of our records is such that it is only by researches 
 such as Professor Sterrett proposes that we can hope to come to 
 any real understanding of them. I know of no more timely or 
 promising undertaking than the scientific exploration of these 
 lands, and I am sure that there is nobody better fitted to ad- 
 vance it successfully than Professor Sterrett. 
 
 (Signed) WILLIAM SCOTT FERGUSON. 
 
 Harvard University, 
 Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 23, 1911. 
 I have read with great interest your project for research in 
 Asia Minor and Syria ; and I want to assure you of my constant 
 delight in all that you are doing in the great cause in which we 
 both have such a deep interest. 
 
 (Signed) WILLIAM W. GOODWIN. 
 
 Harvard University. 
 I have been, in common with many others, much interested in 
 the plans of Professor J. R. S. Sterrett of Cornell University for 
 the exploration of Asia Minor. Dr. Sterrett is known to me 
 only professionally, but there is certainly no other man in 
 America so competent to undertake and carry out the work 
 which scholars of many fields desire and the plans which he 
 has laid so carefully. 
 
 (Signed) CHARLES BURTON GULICK. 
 
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 Tufts College, 
 
 Massachusetts, 
 January 3, 1911. 
 I am well aware of the importance of a thorough study of 
 Asia Minor. I doubt if any portion of the earth's surface 
 would yield equally important results, and I am sure that the 
 story of human life and civilization can never be written until 
 Asia Minor has been made to tell its story of the past. 
 
 I most sincerely hope that means may be found to enable Pro- 
 fessor Sterrett to carry on successfully the work which he is so 
 well prepared to do and for which he so ardently longs. 
 
 ( Si gned ) FREDERICK W. HAMILTON, 
 
 President of Tufts College. 
 
 Tufts College, 
 
 Massachusetts, 
 
 Jan. 20, 1911. 
 The undersigned, teachers in Tufts College, desire to express 
 their interest in the proposal of Prof. J. R. S. Sterrett for sys- 
 tematic and thorough excavation and exploration of Asia 
 Minor. As Prof. Sterrett was himself among the first to show, 
 and as Dr. Strzygowski has as often repeated since, it is in Asia 
 Minor that the question of ''Orient oder Rom" must be decided. 
 It would seem to be a fine thing that America should be a lead- 
 ing factor in solving, in part at least, the eternal question of the 
 amount and character of the debt of the Occident to the Orient. 
 (Signed) GEORGE T. KNIGHT, 
 H. G. MITCHELL, 
 
 WILLIAM K. DENISON, 
 CHARLES ST. CLAIR WADE. 
 
 Amherst College, 
 Amherst, Massachusetts, January 13th, 1911. 
 Every one acquainted with the opportunities for a most re- 
 markable addition to the world 's knowledge through exhaustive 
 scientific researches in Asia Minor and Syria will be intensely 
 
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 interested in Dr. Sterrett's projected expedition. It is most 
 important that these investigations be made without loss of 
 time, since the conditions for the highest success are rapidly be- 
 coming less favorable. And we believe that it would be impos- 
 sible to find another man so splendidly fitted in respect to 
 enthusiasm, scholarly qualities, sane judgment and personal 
 experience, as Dr. Sterrett to undertake this work and to push 
 it forward to a successful conclusion. We sincerely hope that 
 the way will be speedily opened for the realization of Dr. Ster- 
 rett's plan for securing priceless information concerning the 
 past and present archaeological, historical, and geographical 
 facts relating to Syria and Asia Minor. 
 
 (Signed) GEORGE HARRIS, 
 
 President of Amherst College, 
 LEVI H. ELWELL, 
 HERBERT P. HOUGHTON, 
 H. de F. SMITH, 
 WILLIAM L. COWLES. 
 
 Amherst College, 
 Amherst, Mass., January 11, 1911. 
 I am very much interested in Professor Sterrett's plan, and 
 most sincerely hope it can be carried through. With all truth 
 I can write, that I feel sure there is no man so well qualified as 
 he to do this important work and it is so important that funds 
 ought to be forthcoming. 
 
 (Signed) AVILLIAM L. COWLES. 
 
 Amherst College. 
 I desire to record my hearty approval of the plan as 
 outlined, and also to express my conviction that no American 
 scholar is better fitted for the execution of such a plan than is 
 Professor Sterrett himself. 
 
 The governments of Italy and Greece have become fully alive 
 to the importance of thorough exploration of their respective 
 but nothing of this sort can be expected from Tur- 
 
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 key. Such systematic work as the plan recommends can not 
 but result in most important and valuable discoveries ; and if it 
 is to be undertaken, it must be by those who have profited most 
 by classical studies, who most thoroughly understand the situ- 
 ation, and whose means are adequate to the undertaking. In 
 view of the facts in the case as they have been set forth in the 
 ''Outline," I beg to express my earnest hope that the proposed 
 enterprise may be promoted in the manner indicated. 
 
 (Signed) L. H. EL WELL. 
 
 Williams College, 
 Williamstown, Mass., Feb. 20th, 1911. 
 There is probably no part of the Mediterranean lands which 
 promises more important and even brilliant results from exca- 
 vation and archaeological research than Asia Minor. 
 
 AVilliams College gladly adds the emphasis of its approval to 
 the plan of Professor Sterrett. and joins in the expression of 
 hope that the funds necessary for the conduct of the proposed 
 expedition may be obtained. 
 
 (Signed) H. A. GARFIELD, 
 
 President of Williams College, 
 RICHARD AUSTIN RICE, 
 GEORGE EDWIN HOWES, 
 HENRY D. WILD, 
 JOHN S. GALBRAITH, 
 SHERWOOD O. DICKERMAN, 
 MONROE N. WETMORE, 
 DAVID TAGGART CLARK, 
 JOHN HASKELL HEWITT. 
 
 Smith College, 
 Northampton, Mass., Jan. 6, 1911. 
 I heartily approve of the proposed historical research in Asia 
 Minor and Syria, and should be glad if the pecuniary aid can 
 be secured which will make it possible. 
 
 (Signed) L. CLARK SEELYE, 
 
 President Emeritus of Smith College. 
 
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 Smith College, 
 Northampton, Mass., January 16, 1911. 
 Professor Sterrett 's desire to make a systematic and thorough 
 exploration of Asia Minor, in order to secure the contributions 
 to history which it is assuredly able to give, receives our hearti- 
 est sympathy. Asia Minor is a veritable treasure house of his- 
 torical material, and it would be a splendid piece of work to 
 make this available to the world. 
 
 (Signed) M. L. BURTON, 
 
 President of Smith College. 
 HENRY M. TYLER, Dean, 
 JOHN EVERETT BRADY, 
 JULIA H. CAVERNO, 
 CHARLES DOWNER HAZEN, 
 WILLIAM DODGE GRAY, 
 MARY B. McELWAIN, 
 MARY L. BENTON, 
 ELIHU GRANT, 
 AMY L. BARBOUR. 
 
 Mount Holyoke College, 
 South Hadley, Mass., February 13th, 1911. 
 It gives me pleasure to approve Professor Sterrett 's plan for 
 archaeological, historical, and geographical research in Asia 
 Minor and Syria. I hope that he will have the support neces- 
 sary to put it into operation. 
 
 (Signed) MARY E. WOOLLEY, 
 
 President of Mount Holyoke College. 
 
 Also endorsed by 
 
 (Signed) HELEN M. SEARLES, Latin, 
 HELEN E. HO AG, Latin, 
 MARY GILMORE WILLIAMS, Greek, 
 HELEN C. FLINT, Greek, 
 LOUISE F. RANDOLPH, 
 
 Archaeology and History of Art, 
 EDITH H. HALL, Archaeology. 
 
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 Yale University, 
 New Haven, Jan. 2, 1911. 
 Understanding that Professor Sterrett is endeavoring to se- 
 cure a grant for archaeological, historical and geographical 
 research in Asia Minor and Syria we take pleasure in express- 
 ing our ardent hope that the wisdom of such an appropriation 
 may become apparent. 
 
 American science has all too few opportunities to place its 
 work alongside that of European scholars. Professor Sterrett 's 
 work already done in this field, coupled with the unparalleled 
 opportunities now unfolding in it, makes us confident that were 
 the means forthcoming results would be achieved amply re- 
 warding the undertakers of the work and of immeasurable 
 worth to historical science. 
 
 (Signed)' BEN J. W. BACON, 
 
 CHAELES C. TORREY, 
 
 EDWARD L. CURTIS, 
 
 ALBERT T. CLAY, 
 
 E. P. MORRIS, 
 
 THOMAS iD. GOODELL, 
 
 E. WASHBURN HOPKINS, 
 
 HANNS OERTEL, 
 
 ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON, 
 
 P. V. C. BAUR, 
 
 G. L. HENDRICKSON, 
 
 B. PERRIN. 
 
 Yale University, 
 New Haven, Conn., March 17, 1911. 
 To whom it may concern : 
 
 From our knowledge of Asia Minor and from what has al- 
 ready been discovered, it appears to me that in no part of the 
 world lies greater opportunity for securing archaeological 
 material by the help of which the history and development of 
 cultures can be written than in that region, the bridge between 
 those of the farther East, only a few of which are known, and 
 
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 those of the West, with which we are better acquainted, and 
 from which our own culture has directly come. I believe that 
 peoples of which we have little or no knowledge will be re- 
 stored to their place in history, if some of the almost countless 
 ruin heaps in that land are opened up to the light of day by 
 systematic excavations. The fact that clay was used so ex- 
 tensively as a writing material in that district, as is evident 
 from the many tablets found, makes this belief reasonable. The 
 discovery of a single archive like that which was unearthed by 
 "Winckler and Macridy at Boghaz Kieui, and which now awaits 
 decipherment in Constantinople, would amply reward any eifort 
 and expense that the project would involve. 
 
 And I cannot endorse too strongly Professor Sterrett, so well 
 known to American and European scholars, as one well 
 equipped for directing such an undertaking. With adequate 
 funds to carry on such a work for a reasonable number of years, 
 I feel that his results would be very great, and also most grati- 
 fying to those who provide the means. 
 
 (Signed) ALBERT T. CLAY. 
 
 Yale University, 
 New Haven, Jan. 7, 1911. 
 All those who are interested in the history of civilization can 
 have but one opinion in regard to Prof. Sterrett 's project. 
 There is no other land from which light is so much needed as 
 from Asia Minor, nor any other where immediate results of the 
 highest importance are so certain to be obtained by any thor- 
 oughly equipped expedition. No scholar is better qualified than 
 Prof. Sterrett to undertake the work of exploration. 
 
 (Signed) CHARLES C. TORRE Y. 
 Professor of Semitic Languages in Yale University; Chair- 
 man of the Managing Committee of the American School for 
 Oriental Study and Research in Palestine. 
 
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 Yale University, 
 New Haven, Conn., January 18, 1911. 
 Professor Sterrett's project is certainly a most interesting 
 and valuable one, and I hope sincerely that it may be carried 
 out. Personally I should be especially glad of this, because of 
 my own work in that country. I have been studying the 
 changes of physical conditions during historic times, and the 
 work which Professor Sterrett proposes to do would afford a 
 vast amount of information, not only as to Asia Minor itself, 
 but as to many other parts of the world. 
 
 (Signed) ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON, 
 Carnegie Research Assistant, Explorer, Author, Member of 
 Expeditions to Russian Turkestan and to Chinese Turkestan. 
 
 Trinity College, 
 Hartford, Conn., February 6, 1911. 
 We are greatly interested in the proposition for careful 
 archaeological, historical, and geographical researches in Asia 
 Minor and Syria. We trust that the plan of which an outline 
 has been furnished us will be carried into effect and that funds 
 may be provided for making it as complete as possible. It cer- 
 tainly promises much for the advancement of our knowledge of 
 the ancient world. 
 
 (Signed) FLAYEL S. LUTHER, 
 
 President of Trinity College, 
 FRANK COLE BABBITT, 
 RAYMOND GARFIELD GETTELL, 
 LE ROY C. BARRET. 
 
 Wesleyan University, 
 Middletown, Connecticut, Feb. 16, 1911. 
 In regard to the project of extended excavation and research 
 in Asia Minor we are in hearty agreement with Professor Ster- 
 rett. If executed in a comprehensive way it would probably con- 
 tribute more than any other one thing to the understanding of 
 
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 the beginnings of occidental civilization, and particularly to 
 the knowledge of the religions which were most influential in 
 shaping the thought of Greece and subsequently of Christian 
 Europe. 
 
 (Signed) W. A. HEIDEL, 
 J. W. HEWITT. 
 
 Brown University, 
 Providence, R. I., January 24, 1911. 
 Professor Sterrett has sent me a truly remarkable pamphlet, 
 containing endorsements from all over the country, and all 
 foreign countries, regarding the w^ork he wishes to do. . . . 
 I hope that in some way the way will open up for the great 
 work he wishes to achieve. 
 
 (Signed) W. H. P. FAUNCE, 
 
 President of Brown University. 
 
 Brown University, 
 Providence, R. I., 21st March, 1911. 
 If my word be worth anything to the cause, I may say that I 
 regard the project as one of vast importance. After Greece and 
 Crete, Asia Minor holds the key to ancient classical civilization ; 
 and more than either she bridges the gulf between East and 
 West. The nation that uncovers Asia Minor will rewrite an- 
 cient history; and, if the stupendous task is ever to be under- 
 taken, why are not we the people? I was at Athens when we 
 lost Delphi to the French a loss we have never made good ; but 
 this project of Professor Sterrett would be an ample revenge. 
 (Signed) J. IRVING MANATT. 
 
 The General Theological Seminary, 
 
 New York City, February 1, 1911. 
 From its geographical position alone it would be a safe in- 
 ference that Asia Minor must have held an important place in 
 the history of the ancient world. The knowledge we possess 
 confirms the inference abundantly. Yet this knowledge is 
 
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 based but slightly on the best sources, viz : contemporary rec- 
 ords. But those records are still accessible in large quantities, 
 above the soil, and, we may positively affirm, buried in the 
 earth. It is of supreme importance that the rapidly disappear- 
 ing surface records be scientifically collected and studied, or 
 they may be lost forever. Those under ground should also be 
 brought to light for the increase of the world's knowledge. 
 Incidentally some valuable light is sure to be cast on early- 
 Christian history, especially on the scenes of the greater part 
 of St. Paul's labors. 
 
 Professor Sterrett has secured a truly remarkable list of en- 
 dorsements. His plan is for the most part excellently con- 
 ceived. While there is a man qualified and eager for the work, 
 the opportunity is ripe. The only lacking requisite is enough 
 money to carry out a splendid program. America has now a 
 chance to make a record in a timely undertaking. The funds 
 ought to be provided at once. 
 
 (Signed) WILFORD L. BOBBINS, Dean, 
 WM. J. SEABURY, 
 J. CHARLES ROPER, 
 H. M. DENSLOW, 
 CHARLES N. SHEPARD, 
 CHAS. C. EDMUNDS, 
 LORING W. BATTEN, 
 ARTHUR P. HUNT, 
 ARTHUR W. JENKS, 
 FRANCIS BRANCH BLODGETT, 
 WILLIAM H. P. HATCH, 
 CHARLES H. BOYNTON. 
 
 Columbia University, 
 
 January 14, 1911. 
 The undersigned, members of the Department of Classical 
 Philology in Columbia University, desire to express their cor- 
 dial sympathy with the plans which Professor Sterrett has pro- 
 posed for the scientific study of Asia Minor. There can be no 
 question at all that a better knowledge of Asia Minor is of the 
 
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 greatest importance in the study of the development of Euro- 
 pean civilization. Anthropologist, archaeologist, geographer 
 and historian are all likely to be greatly helped by a careful 
 and systematic investigation of the problems which wait for 
 solution in this region of the earth. 
 
 Professor Sterrett's extensive travels in Asia Minor and his 
 experience in topographical work there have given him, of all 
 Americans, the knowledge and experience necessary for the pro- 
 posed undertaking. 
 
 (Signed) EDWARD DELAVAN PERRY, 
 J. R. WHEELER, 
 CLARENCE H. YOUNG, 
 JAMES C. EGBERT, 
 GEORGE N. OLCOTT, 
 NELSON G. McCREA, 
 FRANK GARDENER MOORE. 
 
 Columbia University, 
 New York, January 3, 1911. 
 I most earnestly believe in such a careful study of Asia Minor 
 as Professor Sterrett has proposed, and I earnestly hope it may 
 be brought to pass. Scholars are certainly agreed that no 
 region contains within its soil so many secrets bearing upon the 
 origin of European civilization and the relations of that civili- 
 zation to the orient. Professor Sterrett may, I am sure, count 
 on the cordial sympathy of the School at Athens in any such 
 undertaking. 
 
 (Signed) J. R. WHEELER, 
 Chairman of the Managing Committee of the School at Athens. 
 
 Columbia University, 
 
 New York, Jan. 6, 1911. 
 I heartily endorse Professor Sterrett's project for archaeo- 
 logical work in Asia Minor and earnestly hope that he may suc- 
 ceed in securing financial support. What he has previously 
 done in that field is ample proof of his ability to go much 
 
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 further and do far more. The results have solid scientific value 
 and a poignant interest for all who study or profit by the study 
 of history. 
 
 (Signed) WM. M. SLOANE, 
 President of the American Historical Association. 
 
 Columbia University, 
 New York, January 2, 1911. 
 I send you hearty good wishes for your work, and join in en- 
 dorsing your plans regarding archaeological researches in Asia 
 Minor a most promising field. 
 
 (Signed) A. V. WILLIAMS JACKSON, 
 
 Professor of Indo-Iranian Languages. 
 
 Columbia University, 
 New York, January 4th, 1911. 
 I endorse with heartiness the plan which Professor Sterrett 
 has formulated for archaeological work in Asia Minor and 
 Syria. I hope he may be successful in turning attention to a 
 field which is so promising of results and in which American ef- 
 fort has done so little. 
 
 (Signed) RICHARD GOTTHEIL, 
 
 Director of the American School for Oriental Study and Re- 
 search in Palestine in 1909-1910. 
 
 The Senate of New Jersey, 
 
 Jan. 12th, 1911. 
 
 I endorse most heartily Professor Sterrett 's project for 
 archaeological, historical and geographical research in Asia 
 Minor and I trust that his petition asking for support in this 
 matter may be granted. 
 
 (Signed) JOHN D. PRINCE, 
 Professor of Semitic Languages in Columbia University. 
 
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 Columbia University. 
 Every investigation thus far conducted on the soil of ancient 
 civilization by trained archaeologists in combination with stu- 
 dents of architecture, has been productive of distinct gains to 
 our insight into the world of ancient thought. As a young man, 
 Professor Sterrett won his laurels by his admirable work in 
 little known regions of Asia Minor. He has since then been a 
 close student of every investigation of value that contributed to 
 the widening knowledge of antiquities. I feel sure that if an 
 endowed institution could see its way clear to the support of 
 the larger scheme which he has outlined, it would call forth ex- 
 cellent results of a kind that would link closely together the 
 records of ancient times and of later institutions. Large parts 
 of Asia Minor are substantially virgin soil, as far as thorough 
 investigation is concerned, and the remarkable results that have 
 been achieved by the Germans at Pergamon, Priene, Miletus 
 and other points in Asia Minor and of the Austrians at Ephesus 
 seem to invite similar efforts. 
 
 (Signed) JULIUS SACHS. 
 
 Columbia University. 
 To me as an archaeologist and classical scholar Professor 
 Sterrett 's plan appeals very strongly and I believe that, if car- 
 ried out, it must yield important results and add greatly to our 
 present knowledge in archaeology, epigraphy, history and 
 probably also in classical architecture and sculpture. Prof. 
 Sterrett himself is personally admirably equipped by experience 
 and knowledge to conduct such explorations. In fact I know of 
 no other American scholar so well qualified for such work in 
 Asia Minor and I sincerely hope that the necessary grant may 
 be made. 
 
 (Signed) CLARENCE H. YOUNG. 
 
 New York University, 
 New York, Jan. 3, 1911. 
 I heartily indorse the appeal of Professor Sterrett for a grant 
 for excavations in Asia Minor, with a view to increasing the 
 
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 world's knowledge of ancient times and races. The possibilities 
 offered by such excavations have fascinated me ever since I 
 made a special study of the results of excavations at Mycenae 
 and Tiryns as a college student. While not qualified myself to 
 indorse the details of the plan, I am prepared heartily to second 
 the indorsement of Sir William M. Ramsay which Professor 
 Sterrett has already received, as I know of no one better quali- 
 fied from personal experience to form a just estimate of the 
 probable returns which such excavations would yield. It would 
 be a great gratification to my colleagues in the Faculty of New 
 York University as well as to myself, should Professor Sterrett 's 
 appeal receive favorable consideration. 
 
 (Signed) JOHN H. MacCRACKEN, 
 Acting Chancellor of New York University. 
 
 New York University, 
 
 New York, March 1, 1911. 
 Any one who is at all familiar with the more recent work 
 done by scholars like Ramsay, Hogarth and others who have 
 preceded and followed them in unearthing the rich treasures in 
 Asia Minor, that throw floods of light upon the ancient cus- 
 toms, religion, and life in that part of the world, will earnestly 
 desire that the request for means for the purpose of carrying 
 on thorough archaeological research there may succeed. Un- 
 questionably, most important and interesting additions will be 
 made to what we already know in part touching the early civ- 
 ilization and the history of this tramping ground of the nations 
 of the East and the West. 
 
 (Signed) WILLIAM E. WATERS, 
 ERNEST J. SIHLER, 
 MARSHALL S. BROWN, 
 ERNEST RIESS. 
 
 College of the City of New York. 
 Permit me to say that I believe it to be the opinion of all 
 scholars that this is a project from which the most ample and 
 valuable returns may be expected, and I believe further that 
 
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 Professor Sterrett is much better fitted than any other Ameri- 
 can to undertake such a work. No other American, I think, 
 enjoys so high a reputation as an explorer and epigraphist 
 among foreign scholars, and an expedition under his direction 
 would command at once their respect and confidence. 
 
 The opinions which I have stated are based in large part upon 
 my own experience of two years in study and excavation in 
 Greece. 
 
 (Signed) CARLETON L. BROWNSON. 
 
 The University of Rochester, 
 
 Office of the President, 
 Rochester, N. Y., March 7, 1911. 
 I sincerely hope that Professor Sterrett will succeed in secur- 
 ing the subvention which is necessary to insure the continuance 
 of the archaeological investigations in Asia Minor. I believe 
 that such investigations promise much for our more perfect 
 knowledge of classical and early Christian times, and I appre- 
 ciate the importance of avoiding further delay. 
 
 (Signed) RUSH RHEES. 
 
 Union College, 
 Office of the President. 
 Schenectady, New York, Jan. 3rd, 1911. 
 It gives me great pleasure to endorse Professor Sterrett 's re- 
 quest for assistance in furthering the project he has in mind. 
 There is no doubt that Asia Minor holds treasures of inestimable 
 value which have never seen light ; waiting only the skill, and 
 enterprise, and devotion of scholars such as Professor Sterrett. 
 The necessary funds for such work should not be wanting, and 
 the results, I am sure, would not only justify the expenditure, 
 but add materially to the sum of human knowledge. 
 
 (Signed) CHARLES ALEXANDER RICHMOND, 
 President of Union College, 
 JOHN IRA BENNETT, Greek. 
 
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 Union College, 
 
 Schenectady, N. Y. 
 I urge upon your attention, as worthy of a subvention, the 
 plan of Professor Sterrett, of Cornell University, for the ex- 
 ploration of Asia Minor and Syria. I take the liberty also of 
 expressing my sincere belief in the fitness of Professor Sterrett 
 to do expert research work, including the work implied in said 
 pamphlet. 
 
 (Signed) SIDNEY G. ASHMORE. 
 
 Hamilton College, 
 The President's Rooms, 
 Clinton, New York, Jan. 3, 1911. 
 The outline plan for Research in Asia Minor and Syria will, 
 I am sure, make an earnest appeal to all persons capable to 
 perceive its abundant reason and scope and also the necessity 
 of prompt action. The endorsements put it outside the prob- 
 lematical, leaving it to be but a question of ways and means. I 
 trust that Professor Sterrett 's fitness and readiness may be 
 made use of. I shall be glad if his comprehensive idea meets the 
 approval and engages the assistance of men or institutions of 
 wealth. Such work resolutely promoted through a term of 
 years that left nothing to the merely tentative and sporadic 
 would honor those, who undertake it, would enlarge the bounds 
 of exact historical knowledge, and would reflect great credit 
 upon American sagacity and timeliness. 
 
 (Signed) M. WOOLSEY STRYKER, 
 
 President of Hamilton College. 
 
 Hamilton College, 
 Clinton, N. Y., January 9th, 1911. 
 We, the undersigned, heartily recommend the plan of Profes- 
 sor Sterrett for the systematic and continuous exploration of 
 Asia Minor. 
 
 (signed) EDWARD FITCH, 
 H. B. WARD. 
 
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 HERMAN LOUIS EBELING, 
 JOS. D. IBBOTSON, JR., 
 H. C. G. BRANDT, 
 FRANK HOYT WOOD, 
 W. H. SQUIRES, 
 AUGUSTUS H. SHEARER, 
 WILLIAM P. SHEPARD, 
 F. M. DAVENPORT. 
 
 Vassar College, 
 President's Office, 
 Poughkeepsie, N. Y., January 18, 1911. 
 In the belief that both surface research and excavations in 
 Asia Minor would yield rich results for the knowledge of past 
 civilizations (Hittite, Phrygian, Greek, Graeco-Roman, and 
 Early Christian), we wish to express our deep interest in Pro- 
 fessor J. R. S. Sterrett's appeal for a subvention to make pos- 
 sible this great work. And we hope that Professor Sterrett him- 
 self in view of his idealistic conception of so tremendous an 
 undertaking and his peculiar fitness in linguistic equipment and 
 practical experience for the leadership of it may be placed at 
 the head of the expedition planned. 
 
 (Signed) JAMES M. TAYLOR, 
 
 President of Vassar College, 
 ABBY LEACH, Greek, 
 LUCY M. SALMON, History, 
 J. LEVERETT MOORE, Latin, 
 ELIZABETH HAZELTON HAIGHT, Latin, 
 IDA CARLTON THALLOU, History, 
 GRACE HARRIET MACURDY, Greek. 
 
 Vassar College. 
 Professor Sterrett has eminent fitness for planning this work 
 and if he can secure the required amount, he will do work in 
 archaeology beyond anything yet reached by any of our work- 
 
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 ers in the field. Our country has not made any great mark in 
 this work as yet and this will be a glorious opportunity. I 
 know of no one else so well fitted in every way to do this work 
 on a large scale and with conspicuous results. 
 
 (Signed) ABBY LEACH. 
 
 Syracuse University, 
 Syracuse, N. Y., Feb. 16, 1911. 
 
 Professor Sterrett's project for the archaeological survey of 
 Asia Minor seems most timely and it is one which ought to com- 
 mand the sympathy and assistance of all who are interested in 
 the search for and the preservation of the monuments of the 
 past in the widest sense of the term. 
 
 Nowhere in the ancient world is there, at the present moment, 
 so great a need for more light as in the eastern part of the 
 peninsula of Asia Minor and in northern Syria. The questions 
 which are arising over our new discoveries concerning the 
 Hittites and their culture, the origin of that culture and its 
 relation to both Mesopotamia and the Ionian coast demand an 
 immediate search of this part of the world for more monuments 
 and, more particularly, for that stone whose dual inscription 
 will unlock the secrets of their language. 
 
 In no country has the deterioration and destruction of the 
 ancient monuments progressed so rapidly as in Turkey and, 
 what is of more consequence, that process seems recently to 
 have been accelerated, thanks to the increased prosperity 
 brought by the railroads. The Turk has no respect or sympathy 
 for the pre-Muslim past and very little for his own. His tem- 
 perament directs him to take for his own use all materials which 
 the past has put in his way without the slightest care for the 
 consequences. Inscriptions and milestones find their way to the 
 lime-kiln and the macadam road, ancient buildings become 
 quarries for government structures as well as for the veriest 
 hovel, while the mounds themselves which cover the remains of 
 ancient cities are used as fertilizer and for the extraction of 
 saltpeter. Particularly the mounds of Iconium, Tyana, Mazaca, 
 and Malatia are facing a destruction which is in some cases al- 
 
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 ready far advanced. If we are really to penetrate the secrets of 
 Mazaca or Malatia, excavation must take place at once. 
 
 The direction of this work could not be placed in better 
 liands. No other American has had better training or greater 
 success in archaeological field work. The statement of Sir Wil- 
 liam Kamsay, the greatest of the workers in Asia Minor, made 
 to one of the signers of this letter, that no one was ever more 
 successful in dealing with the Turks and in ferreting out in- 
 scriptions, is sufficient proof of this. 
 
 There can be no more praiseworthy scheme for the further- 
 ance of knowledge, nor one of more general interest, than this 
 plan which Professor Sterrett suggests. 
 
 (Signed) FRANK SMALLEY, 
 EDGAR A. EMENS, 
 PERLEY OAKLAND PLACE. 
 HERBERT M. BURCHARD, 
 CURTIS C. BUSHNELL, 
 HAROLD L. CLEASBY, 
 JAMES BULLARD, 
 A. C. FLICK, 
 E. P. TANNER, 
 JAMES G. RANDALL, 
 J. E. WRENCH. 
 
 Colgate University, 
 
 Office of the Dean, 
 Hamilton, N. Y., January 17, 1911. 
 Personally I have a keen interest in the undertaking Professor 
 Sterrett is trying to forward, and trust it may be possible for 
 American scholars to excavate some of those eastern sites. 
 (Signed) JOHN GREENE, Acting Dean. 
 
 University of Pennsylvania, 
 
 Philadelphia, Jan. 6, 1911. 
 
 We most heartily commend Professor Sterrett 's project for 
 
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 the exploration of Asia Minor and hope that he may obtain the 
 financial support which it needs. 
 
 (Signed) WILLIAM N. BATES, 
 H. L. CROSBY, 
 
 WALTER WOODBURN HYDE, 
 JOHN C. ROLFE, 
 HENRY GIBBONS, 
 HERMAN V. AMES, 
 MORRIS JASTROW, JR., 
 ROLAND G. KENT. 
 
 University of Pennsylvania, 
 
 Philadelphia, Jan. 6th, 1911. 
 
 I heartily endorse the plan of Professor J. R. S. Sterrett for 
 the exploration of Asia Minor, and respectfully urge that the 
 grant for which he asks may be made. There can be no doubt 
 that such a thorough exploration as he proposes would give re- 
 sults of the highest value, not only to classical scholars, but to 
 many other departments of knowledge. Professor Sterrett is 
 unusually well qualified by sound scholarship and by practical 
 experience as an explorer and an archaeologist to direct such 
 an expedition. A better man could not be found. 
 
 (Signed) JOHN C. ROLFE, 
 President of the American Philological Association. 
 
 University of Pennsylvania, 
 
 Philadelphia, 23 January, 1911. 
 Prof. Sterrett 's plan for a thorough series of excavations in 
 Asia Minor and Syria is of supreme importance. Enough has 
 come to light in these regions through sporadic explorations to 
 justify the belief that the soil harbors important treasures in 
 large numbers. We now know the important part played in 
 ancient times by the peoples that gathered together in the 
 various parts of Asia IMinor and Syria, but it is also evident 
 that further progress in our knowledge of significant centres of 
 ancient civilizations is only possible through excavations con- 
 
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 ducted systematically and on a large scale for a continuous 
 period of years. All who are interested in enlarging the sphere 
 of human knowledge will therefore approve Prof. Sterrett's 
 plan and hope for its realization. 
 
 (Signed) MORRIS JASTROW, JR., 
 
 Professor of Semitic Languages. 
 
 University of Pennsylvania, 
 
 Philadelphia, Jan. 22, 1911. 
 I most sincerely endorse and recommend Professor Sterrett's 
 plan for a thorough exploration of Asia Minor. I have no doubt 
 that it will yield rich results for the history of mankind and 
 only wish that its realization could be effected very soon. 
 
 W. MAX MtJLLER, 
 R. E. Seminary. Author of Egyptological Researches. Re- 
 search work in Egypt for the Carnegie Institution. 
 
 University of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 I have recently received a statement as to Professor Ster- 
 rett's proposed expedition to Asia Minor, and I write to say 
 how heartily I sympathize with the project. I have myself done 
 considerable traveling in Asia Minor and I can substantiate all 
 Dr. Sterrett says of the richness of the country in archaeological 
 material. An institution having money available would cer^ 
 tainly be doing a service to classical scholars in furthering this 
 project. 
 
 (Signed) WILLIAM N. BATES. 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Kindly allow me to state that I agree heartily and entirely 
 with Dr. Sterrett as to the great necessity of having the coun- 
 tries referred to by him explored methodically and thoroughly. 
 Asia Minor is practically a ''terra incognita" archaeologically 
 and historically, in importance inferior to no other country. 
 I speak from a practical knowledge of a large section of this 
 
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 country, obtained by numerous scientific excursions into the 
 Hittite region during the last fifteen years. 
 
 It would be highly desirable to impress upon such expedi- 
 tions the duty of obtaining squeezes and casts of every inscrip- 
 tion and monument discovered, with a view of depositing them 
 in the National Museum at Washington or in a special museum 
 to be created and maintained by some institution. 
 
 There can be no doubt that the scientific exploration of Asia 
 Minor with its many problems and their hidden solutions will 
 soon stand in the very centre of archaeological and historical 
 interest, and it would be a magnificent work on the part of any 
 institution to share in the opening up of this ''dark continent" 
 by sending out a well equipped expedition, or more, to Asia 
 Minor. 
 
 (Signed) H. V. HILPRECHT. 
 
 Bryn Mawr College, 
 Bryn Mawr, Pa., Feb. 25, 1911. 
 
 Professor Sterrett has already elicited from the leading 
 scholars of the world emphatic testimony as to the importance 
 and timeliness of his proposed undertaking in Asia Minor. I 
 heartily agree with this testimony, and earnestly hope that he 
 may be granted the funds necessary for the accomplishment of 
 this great task. 
 
 (Signed) GEO. A. BARTON. 
 
 Professor of Biblical Literature and Semitic Languages in 
 Bryn Mawr College. 
 
 Bryn Mawr College, 
 
 Bryn Mawr, Feb. 8, 1911. 
 
 I can imagine no more interesting and valuable contribution 
 to archaeology and the history of the past, clouded as it is, for 
 lack of just such investigations. 
 
 (Signed) WILMER CAVE WRIGHT. 
 
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 Princeton University, 
 Princeton, N. J., January 6, 1911. 
 The undersigned, members of the Faculty of Princeton Uni- 
 versity, endorse in the heartiest manner the petition of Pro- 
 fessor J. R. S. Sterrett. There can be no doubt among archae- 
 ologists or historians that Asia Minor is now the most important 
 land to explore and excavate. There is good reason to expect 
 that the clues to the understanding of the ethnology, history 
 and civilization of three milleniums previous to the Mycenean 
 age will be found there. The development of municipal gov- 
 ernment under the Macedonian and Roman Empires, the con- 
 ditions under which the Christian Church was organized, the 
 origins and spread of the Byzantine culture can be studied best 
 in Asia Minor. Only a beginning has been made of scientific 
 explorations of this immense territory. 
 
 There is also need of haste. With the construction of the 
 new railroad and the changed conditions of the country has 
 come an activity in building which threatens to remove in a 
 short time many of the most important monuments; for in- 
 scriptions and works of art alike are being used as common 
 building material, broken into rubble, burnt for lime, or other- 
 wise totally destroyed. 
 
 AVe have the fullest confidence in Professor Sterrett himself 
 as an investigator and explorer whose merit is proven and 
 whose reputation is established. We therefore commend the 
 immediate consideration of this project which we believe will 
 contribute greatly to the advancement of learning and to the 
 honor of our own country. 
 
 (Signed) ANDREW F. WEST, Dean, 
 FRANK F. ABBOTT, 
 ALLAN MARQUAND, 
 HOWARD CROSBY BUTLER, 
 RUDOLPH E. BRtJNNOW, 
 WILLIAM LIBBEY, 
 DUANE REED STUART, 
 DAVID MAGIE, JR., 
 WM. K. PRENTICE, 
 EDWARD CAPPS. 
 
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 Princeton University, 
 I have read with a great deal of interest recently the ' ' Outline 
 of a Plan for the Exploration of Asia Minor," which Professor 
 J. R. S. Sterrett of Cornell has been interested in forming. It 
 seems to me that the execution of this plan is of the greatest 
 consequence to scholarship and historical research, and I hope 
 most sincerely that some well-endowed institution may see its 
 way clear to assist its carrying out. It might result, and prob- 
 ably would result, in rendering unique service to the learned 
 world. 
 
 (Signed) WOODROW WILSON. 
 
 Princeton University. 
 
 Permit me to give my testimony in favor of the plan for the 
 exploration of Asia Minor, proposed by Professor Sterrett. 
 
 I have been in Syria twice and have traveled through large 
 sections of that country, as a member of two archaeological ex- 
 peditions. I can assure you from personal observation, that the 
 ancient monuments, of every sort, are being destroyed with very 
 great rapidity. This is due in part to a sudden revival of build- 
 ing activity in certain districts, in part to new methods of 
 construction there are now men who make their whole living 
 by breaking up ancient monuments into blocks suitable for 
 modern use and in part to the idea that, since so much atten- 
 tion is being paid to the inscriptions and monuments by the 
 foreigners, these inscriptions, etc., must somehow profit the 
 foreigners to the disadvantage of the natives themselves. I 
 believe that it is most desirable to send expeditions into this 
 country as soon as possible, and that great good would be de- 
 rived from the association of engineers, linguists, archaeolo- 
 gists and historians as proposed. I believe that the knowledge 
 acquired by such expeditions would be of great value to the 
 whole world, in many ways ; for example, with respect to mat- 
 ters in which I myself am most interested such expeditions 
 could not fail to discover much, first concerning the administra- 
 tion of the East under the Roman and then under the Byzantine 
 
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 empires, and second concerning 'the development of the Chris- 
 tian religion and the Christian Church. 
 
 Among Americans, Professor Sterrett is undoubtedly the best 
 known, the most experienced, and the most successful explorer 
 of the countries in question. 
 
 (Signed) WM. K. PRENTICE. 
 
 Drew Theological Seminary, 
 
 Madison, N. J., January 24, 1911. 
 I am delighted to have the opportunity of adding my name to 
 the long and distinguished list of those who support Professor 
 Sterrett 's plan for an adequate archaeological exploration of 
 the more interesting sites in Asia Minor. There can be no 
 doubt of the importance of the work to be done, or any doubt 
 of the high probable value of the results, and it is equally cer- 
 tain that we have no scholar so well adapted by learning, ex- 
 perience and sound judgment to attempt it as Professor Ster- 
 rett. I earnestly hope that his plans may succeed. 
 
 (Signed) ROBERT W. ROGERS. 
 
 The Johns Hopkins University, 
 
 Baltimore, Md., January 4, 1911. 
 I sincerely hope that Professor Sterrett may be able to secure 
 the necessary funds for archaeological and historical research 
 in Asia Minor and Syria. 
 
 I recognize very clearly the great value to mankind of such 
 researches as Professor Sterrett wishes to have undertaken, 
 and if my opinion should be asked by any board having money 
 available for such purposes, I shall be glad to do everything in 
 my power to aid the work. 
 
 (Signed) IRA REMSEN, 
 President of Johns Hopkins University. 
 
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 The Johns Hopkins University, 
 
 Baltimore, Md., January 6th, 1911. 
 We, the undersigned members of the Academic Staff of the 
 Johns Hopkins University, are fully convinced of the import- 
 ance of the projected exploration in Asia Minor and Syria, and 
 desire to give it our most cordial endorsement. We sincerely 
 hope that the petition of Professor Sterrett may result in se- 
 curing a sufficient financial support to warrant the immediate 
 undertaking of the work, as well as to ensure its steady con- 
 tinuation and successful completion. 
 
 (Signed) KIRBY FLOWER SMITH, 
 HARRY L. WILSON, 
 DAVID M. ROBINSON, 
 C. W. E. MILLER, 
 MAURICE BLOOMFIELD, 
 E. H. SPIEKER, 
 W. P. MUSTARD. 
 
 The Johns Hopkins University, 
 
 January 4th, 1911. 
 We all sincerely hope for your success in this effort, which 
 may mean so much for the future of the studies in which we 
 are most interested. 
 
 (Signed) HARRY L. WILSON. 
 
 Johns Hopkins University. 
 Permit me to give expression to my hearty approval of the 
 plan, outlined in a recent pamphlet by Prof. J. R. S. Sterrett, 
 for the exploration of Asia Minor. It may be said without ex- 
 aggeration that there is no country from a thorough explora- 
 tion of which more important results may be expected for the 
 history of human civilization, and no country for which hith- 
 erto so little has been attempted in the line of systematic re- 
 search and excavation than Asia Minor. It would seem to me 
 eminently proper that support be given to an experienced 
 scholar who is able and willing to organize and to guide the 
 Avork of an American expedition to Asia Minor. 
 
 (Signed) HERMAN COLLITZ. 
 
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 University of Virginia, 
 Charlottesville, Va., Jan. 15, 1911. 
 
 The sweeping verdict of the European world is conclusive as 
 to the importance and wisdom of Professor Sterrett's plan. He 
 is undoubtedly the man of all men in America to carry it out. 
 He is the pioneer in archaeological exploration so far as Ameri- 
 can scholarship is concerned, and he is the only American who 
 is recognized in Europe as belonging to the ranks of the great 
 archaeological explorers of the world. 
 
 Many years of his life have been spent in the very field which 
 he now desires to develop, and after added years of study and 
 reflection he will go back to his great task in the full ripeness 
 of his knowledge and efficiency. 
 
 A great institution or a man of great wealth has a chance to 
 do something here that America has never undertaken before, 
 and that she may never again have the honor of undertaking. 
 Professor Sterrett's contributions to the world's knowledge of 
 ancient Asia Minor are already a Ktema Eis Aei. These expe- 
 ditions under his leadership will attract the interest of all 
 Europe, and the results of his ripe labors will raise America's 
 rank in the field of science. 
 
 The University of Virginia, which is proud of being Professor 
 Sterrett's undergraduate Alma Mater, rejoices that he has 
 single-handed conceived and proposed his great plan, and en- 
 dorses heartily the verdict of the scientific world that its execu- 
 tion is his own peculiar task. 
 
 (Signed) THOMAS FITZHUGH. 
 
 University of Virginia, 
 
 Jan. 22, 1911. 
 The project of Professor Sterrett has my earnest endorse- 
 ment. There is, in my opinion, no field of research more cer- 
 tain to bear valuable fruit than that which he proposes to culti- 
 vate. I have known him personally for many years and am 
 acquainted with the work that he has done, and I do not know, 
 or know of, any man possessing all the needful qualifications in 
 a higher, or even so high, a degree as he does. 
 
 (Signed) MILTON W. HUMPHREYS. 
 
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 Washington and Lee University^ 
 Lexington, Va., January 3rd, 1911. 
 We give our heartiest endorsement to the proposed plan of 
 Dr. Sterrett, and sincerely hope that some endowed institution 
 may make this one of its chosen ways to earn the gratitude and 
 approval of intelligent men the world over. 
 
 (Signed) GEORGE H. DENNY, 
 
 President of Washington and Lee University, 
 J. W. KERN, 
 JOHN H. LATANE, 
 ADDISON HOGUE. 
 
 Union Theological Seminary, 
 
 Richmond, Va. 
 It is hardly a question that rich returns would ensue and of 
 diverse kinds. I confess to being most interested in the possible 
 geographical and historical results. 
 
 Professor Sterrett has great capabilities as an explorer. I 
 believe that should he undertake the work he would throw him- 
 self into it with great zeal, and would display in its conduct 
 eminent abilities and fitness. Certainly this side of Sir William 
 Ramsay I know of no man from whom I would look for better 
 results. This work would be a matter of interest, importance 
 and pride to all Americans. 
 
 THOS. C. JOHNSON. 
 
 University of North Carolina, 
 
 Chapel Hill, N. C, Feb. 4th, 1911. 
 The President and Classical Faculty of the University of 
 North Carolina emphatically endorse the proposed archaeologi- 
 cal expedition to Asia Minor. 
 
 Such an expedition would be most fruitful of results and 
 would contribute largely to the world *s knowledge, not only 
 from the point of view of Greek studies, but from that of 
 studies in general. All investigations that contribute to a better 
 knowledge of ancient life, manners and customs help us in the 
 
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 study of our own problems, giving us, as they do, a surer foun- 
 dation and a wider horizon. 
 
 We further urge the appointment of Professor J. R. S. Ster- 
 rett as director of this expedition. His signal success in this 
 department, his profound scholarship and his unselfish devotion 
 to his work, warrant us in feeling that he is preeminently fitted 
 to lead such an undertaking successfully. 
 
 ( Signed ) FRANCIS P. VENABLE, 
 
 President of the University of North Carolina, 
 GEORGE HOWE, Latin, 
 CHAS. W. BAIN, Greek. 
 
 University of North Carolina. 
 
 Please let me say that I approve heartily the plan proposed 
 by Dr. J. R. S. Sterrett for research in Asia Minor. The work 
 is most important, and he is the ideal man to do it. It was my 
 fortune to know him and to see his work during a year when I 
 was Minister to Greece, so that I do not speak from hearsay, 
 though I have heard and read only good things about him and 
 his work. I hope, therefore, that some well endowed institution 
 may consider carefully Dr. Sterrett 's plan, and if possible help 
 him to carry it out. 
 
 (Signed) EBEN ALEXANDER, 
 
 Dean and Professor of Greek; Sometime United States Min- 
 ister to Greece. (Deceased.) 
 
 University of Georgia, 
 Athens, Georgia, Feb. 18th, 1911. 
 The undersigned professors in the classical and historical de- 
 partments of the University of Georgia cordially endorse the 
 project for exploration in Asia Minor planned by Professor 
 Sterrett, and beg to express the earnest hope that it will re- 
 ceive adequate financial support. 
 
 (Signed) WILLIS H. BOCOCK, 
 
 Dean of the Graduate School, 
 J. H. T. McPHERSON, 
 
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 W. D. HOOPER, 
 W. O. PAYNE, 
 R. P. BROOKS, 
 R. F. McWHORTER. 
 
 University of Mississippi, 
 University, Miss., February 28, 1911. 
 We are in the heartiest sympathy with the project for archae- 
 ological research in Asia Minor and Syria outlined by the dis- 
 tinguished scholar. Professor Sterrett. The execution of his 
 plan will mean much to the world of letters. 
 
 (Signed) FRANKLIN L. RILEY, 
 
 WILLIAM WILSON BADEN, 
 CALVIN S. BROWN, 
 ALFRED W. MILDEN. 
 A. L. BONDURANT. 
 
 University of Mississippi, 
 University, Miss., February 28, 1911. 
 The moral support so freely accorded Professor Sterrett by 
 the men of light and leading in the classical world is a striking 
 argument in favor of the project he is endeavoring to launch. 
 The logical second step ought now to be taken by those who 
 have the means to place the enterprise on a sound basis of 
 finance. Then will follow the interest and confidence of the 
 larger world. 
 
 (Signed) ALFRED W. MILDEN. 
 
 The Tulane University of Louisiana, 
 
 New Orleans. March 4, 1911. 
 There can scarcely be any divergence of opinion regarding 
 Professor Sterrett 's magnificent plan for the historical and 
 archaeological study of the surface remains of Asia Minor and 
 the thorough excavation of sites all-important to our knowledge 
 not only of the civilization of the Old Testament times, of Baby- 
 
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 Ion, Assyria, Greece, and Rome, but also of the beginnings of 
 Christianity. It is in its scope the most comprehensive design 
 ever conceived for the accomplishment of great things in the 
 investigation of the past ; it is most rich in its promise of valu- 
 able results; it calls not merely for an adequate subvention 
 from a richly endowed institution or a very wealthy man it is 
 an opportunity for a monumental contribution on the part of 
 an institution or an individual to the sum of human knowledge. 
 Here all civilizations have met Aryan, Semitic, Hittite, Greek, 
 Roman, Christian and the field is as yet practically untouched. 
 The German government spent a very large sum of money on 
 the excavations at Olympia alone; and no German has ever 
 suggested that the results were not more than worth the cost. 
 The French government excavated Delphi at an enormous ex- 
 pense ; and there is no Frenchman who does not look upon that 
 achievement with the same pride as the German looks upon 
 the excavation of Olympia. Professor Sterrett brings before 
 Americans of great wealth and the great American institutions 
 that are alone capable of performing the task a grander and 
 far more promising opportunity than all the others have been. 
 It will cost time and it will cost money, but great is the prize 
 and assured is the hope. Let this be the boast and the glory of 
 American enterprise! 
 
 This unique opportunity cannot be embraced too soon; the 
 need is urgent ; destruction threatens much of the material, and 
 the danger becomes more imminent with every advance of 
 Young Turkish enterprise. America has led the way in the 
 Levant with teachers, physicians, and missionaries. And now 
 the times call for America to lead the way in that land in sci- 
 ience, history, geography, and antiquities. The world has been 
 astounded by the results accomplished by even the spasmodic, 
 sporadic explorations conducted by other nations and individu- 
 als in Asia Minor; Dr. Sterrett 's plan calls for continuous, 
 all-embracing, systematic, thorough excavation and investiga- 
 tion from the home of Abraham in Ur of the Chaldees to that of 
 Polycarp in Smyrna and James in Jerusalem. 
 
 We have in Dr. Sterrett just the leader needed for this work ; 
 he has the experience of the veteran in the field of research in 
 
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 Asia Minor combined with all the enthusiasm of the crusaders 
 to recover that holy land, as well as the scientific training and 
 ability to do the work thoroughly and well. Here is a mission- 
 ary, equipped and ready, who needs sending with his company 
 of co-workers, and we look confidently to Americans to meet 
 liberally the need and the opportunity. 
 
 May the great plan in its entire scope find approval and be 
 pushed to a speedy realization. 
 
 (Signed) EDWIN B. CRAIGHEAD, 
 
 President of the Tulane University of 
 
 Louisiana, 
 WALTER MILLER, 
 
 Dean of the Academic Colleges, 
 W. B. SMITH, 
 EDWARD A. BECHTEL, 
 HENRY H. STRAUSS, 
 . ALCeE FORTIER, 
 ROBERT SHARP, 
 MORTON A. ALDRICH, 
 MARY LEAL HARKNESS, 
 PIERCE BUTLER, 
 MELVIN J. WHITE, 
 SUSAN DINSMORE TEW, 
 ANDRE BEZIAT DE BORDES, 
 BRANDT V. B. DIXON, 
 
 President of Newcomb College, 
 WM. WOODWARD, 
 ELLSWORTH WOODWARD, 
 
 Director of the Art School, New- 
 comb College. 
 
 University of Texas, 
 
 Office of the Dean, 
 
 Austin, January 26, 1911. 
 I am glad to add my name to the list of those who believe 
 that the investigation of the antiquities of Asia Minor as pro- 
 posed by Professor Sterrett will be productive of results of the 
 
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 highest value for the history of civilization. As to the fitness of 
 Professor Sterrett to undertake this work, the record of his 
 investigations and publication is ample testimony. 
 
 (Signed) W. J. BATTLE, Dean. 
 
 University of Texas. 
 I beg to say that I believe there is no field of research so 
 likely to advance our knowledge of Ancient History in one of 
 its neglected fields as a thorough archaeological exploration of 
 the Asia Minor region. I trust a way may be found to en- 
 courage effort along this line. 
 
 (Signed) EDWIN W. FAY. 
 
 University of Cincinnati, 
 
 Office of the President, 
 The sixteenth of January, nineteen hundred and eleven. 
 We, the President of the University of Cincinnati and the 
 Professors of the Sciences which treat the history of the devel- 
 opment of civilization, desire to express our keenest interest in 
 the plan of Professor J. R. S. Sterrett for thorough archaeologi- 
 cal, historical, and geographical researches in Asia Minor and 
 Syria. We believe that no country offers equal opportunities 
 for obtaining results of importance for the solution of so many 
 of the most fundamental problems which hinder the investiga- 
 tion of the origins of contemporary society and culture. We 
 beg, therefore, to endorse the petition of Professor Sterrett for 
 an ample subvention to be employed in research and excava- 
 tions in the countries mentioned. 
 
 (Signed) CHARLES WM. DABNEY, 
 
 President of the University of Cincinnati, 
 MERRICK WHITCOMB, 
 J. E. HARRY, 
 JOHN M. BURNAM, 
 GEORGE H. ALLEN. 
 
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 AVestern Reserve University, 
 
 President's Room, 
 Cleveland, 4 January, 1911. 
 I am glad to give my approval, small as is its Avorth, to what- 
 ever you undertake, and in particular to your plan for research 
 in Asia Minor and Syria. 
 
 If I can be of the least service, pray command me. 
 (Signed) CHARLES F. THWING, 
 
 President of Western Reserve University, 
 
 Western Reserve University. 
 
 The thorough exploration of Asia Minor will do more than 
 anything else can do toward settling the questions concerning 
 the origin of the brilliant culture that preceded that of Greek 
 times in the Aegean regions, toward tracing the migrations of 
 peoples and the progress of civilization in the period before the 
 rise of Greek civilization, toward determining the extent and 
 the character of the Greek influence on Asiatics after Alexan- 
 der's conquests, toward increasing our knoAvledge of the gov- 
 ernment of the Ionian Empire, and toward determining the 
 origin and early progress of Christian art, especially architec- 
 ture. Such exploration should be undertaken as soon as pos- 
 sible, because with the building of railroads and the conse- 
 quently greater ease of travel, the ruins are more and more ex- 
 posed to destruction. In this all reports from various parts of 
 the Turkish Empire agree. I know of nothing from which such 
 important results for the knowledge of ancient and early 
 mediaeval history can be expected as from the scientific explora- 
 tion, with excavations, of Asia Minor, with its neighboring land 
 of Syria. 
 
 I hope Professor Sterrett's plan will receive careful consid- 
 eration and will be adopted in its entirety. 
 
 Allow me to add that Professor Sterrett himself has shown 
 market ability and boundless enthusiasm as an explorer in Asia 
 Minor. 
 
 (Signed) HAROLD N. FOWLER, 
 Editor of the American Journal of Archaeology. 
 
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 Western Reserve University. 
 I should like to add my voice in hearty support of the pro- 
 posed expedition of Professor Sterrett of Cornell to Asia Minor. 
 Professor Sterrett is our most experienced investigator along 
 these lines, and he knows exactly v^^hat he wants and what he 
 can do. His plan is a large one, but it can be carried out and 
 will bring credit to all concerned. 
 
 (Signed) SAMUEL BALL PLATNER. 
 
 Miami University, 
 Oxford, Ohio, Jan. 16, 1911. 
 
 No one who reads Professor Sterrett 's Plan for Archaeologi- 
 cal Research in Asia Minor can fail to be impressed with the 
 importance of the work, and be convinced that the plan he 
 recommends is the only one by which it can be worthily ac- 
 complished. It is impossible to estimate the gain to sacred and 
 profane history, to geography, literature, and art from a thor- 
 ough, methodical exploration of Asia Minor. The present 
 seems a favorable time for the undertaking; there is urgent 
 need of prompt action; the precious remains of antiquity are 
 rapidly disappearing, and the loss can never be repaired. 
 
 Of the qualifications of Professor Sterrett to organize and 
 conduct research work on so extensive a scale it is needless for 
 me to speak. He is better acquainted with the territory he pro- 
 poses to explore than any other American; he has had long 
 experience in archaeological research, and the value of his con- 
 tributions is known to scholars and archaeologists both of this 
 country and of Europe. The highest authorities heartily ap- 
 prove of his plan and unite in designating him as the one who 
 by his extensive knowledge, his experience, and rare combina- 
 tion of qualities is preeminently fitted to carry it out success- 
 fully. 
 
 (Signed) A. D. HEPBURN, 
 
 Former President of Miami University ; former President of 
 Davidson College, N. C. 
 
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 Miami University, 
 Oxford, Ohio, Jan. 16, 1911. 
 We, the undersigned, colleagues and friends of Dr. Hepburn, 
 heartily concur in his endorsement of Professor Sterrett and 
 join in urging the grant of funds for the support of an enter- 
 prise which promises so much for the advancement of knowl- 
 edge and the credit of American scholarship. 
 
 JOHN GRANT NEWMAN, President of Western College, 
 GEO. W. HOKE, 
 
 GUY POTTER BENTON, President of Miami University, 
 EDGAR EWING BRANDON, Vice President of Miami 
 
 University, 
 CHARLES HART HANDSCHIN, 
 FRANK DOWRY CLARK. 
 
 Ohio Wesleyan University, 
 
 March 10, 1911. 
 In our judgment a substantial benefit would be conferred on 
 the cause of archaeological research by making appropriation 
 for such work in Asia Minor as Dr. Sterrett has already carried 
 on with results so gratifying to the scholarship of the world. 
 (Signed) RICHARD PARSONS, 
 W. W. DAVIES, 
 J. C. MESSICK, 
 GRACE STANLEY, 
 SARAH CORY CAUTWELL. 
 
 Ohio Wesleyan University, 
 
 Delaware, Ohio, March 14, 1911. 
 I heartily approve the plan for archaeological, geographical 
 and historical research in Asia Minor and Syria. Much valu- 
 able light upon Biblical and historical questions may be ex- 
 pected from systematic and scientific research in this important 
 territory. 
 
 (Signed) R. B. MILLER, 
 Professor of Biblical Literature in the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity. 
 
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 Indiana State Library, 
 
 Indianapolis. 
 I myself have known Dr. Sterrett for many years and have 
 also been a member of the Institute in Athens and feel sure that 
 any work that may be done by him and his co-workers will be 
 of very great profit to American scholars. I do not believe 
 there is any one Inore capable of doing this work in a scientific 
 way than Dr. Sterrett, and for the credit of American scholar- 
 ship I am very anxious to see it undertaken. 
 
 (Signed) DEMARCHUS C. BROWN. 
 
 University of Illinois, 
 
 President's Office, 
 Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, January 14, 1911. 
 
 I should think that any great endowment whose purpose is 
 the general advancement of human progress, would find a very 
 good use indeed for a portion of its funds in making possible 
 the great plans which Professor Sterrett outlines for systematic 
 archaeological exploration in Asia Minor. 
 
 Nothing is surer in this world than the fact that after a pro- 
 gressive people has once provided for the bare necessaries of 
 life, it will begin to reach out for the satisfaction of the things 
 of the spirit. 
 
 This is beginning to be true in a very marked degree of our 
 American people. We are reaching out in many directions to 
 develop the taste for spiritual things and to create a means of 
 gratifying that taste. 
 
 I know of no more fundamental, universal spiritual quality 
 than the impulse which leads us to try to explain how we came 
 to be what we are, i.e., in a large way to understand human 
 history. Even here in the United States, out in the Mississippi 
 Valley, we are beginning to recognize more fully than ever be- 
 fore how far back into the remote periods of the past can be 
 traced the roots of our present day civilization. Every thought- 
 ful and aspiring mind must experience a real longing to under- 
 stand the course of human development. But the course of 
 
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 human development can be understood only when we have be- 
 fore us all the data necessary to trace out the growth of civili- 
 zation from barbarism. In tracing out this long development 
 of human history nothing will be more helpful than a complete 
 record of the early civilizations about the Mediterranean. I 
 presume we shall never acquire the information necessary to 
 get a clear picture of this progress in civilization, but at any 
 rate every little helps and a thorough canvas of Asia Minor and 
 its resources would undoubtedly add greatly to that knowledge 
 of the past which would be such a great satisfaction to the 
 deeper instincts of our nature. 
 
 I trust that Professor Sterrett may succeed in interesting 
 American wealth in his great plan and I wish I could go along 
 and carry the chain for him Avhile he is prosecuting some of his 
 interesting investigations. 
 
 (Signed) EDMUND J. JAMES, 
 
 President of the University of Illinois. 
 
 The University of Chicago, 
 Editorial Office of "Classical Philology." 
 
 Chicago, January 7, 1911. 
 Professor Sterrett 's colleagues here cordially sympathize 
 with his proposed expedition and concur in the conclusive 
 arguments in support of it sufficiently set forth in the testi- 
 monials which he has already received. I myself, though not 
 an archaeologist, am constantly in need of the knowledge of 
 Asia Minor which we do not now possess, which the proposed 
 expedition would almost certainly bring us and which it would 
 in many cases save from being lost to humanity forever. 
 
 (Signed) PAUL SHORE Y, 
 President of the American Philological Association, 1910. 
 
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 The University of Chicago, 
 
 Chicago, Jan. 7, 1911. 
 The plan put forward by Professor Sterrett for research in 
 Asia Minor is a magnificent one, which must arouse the en- 
 thusiasm of every one interested in human history. The reali- 
 zation of this plan would be a great achievement for our 
 country. 
 
 (Signed) FRANK BIGELOW TARBELL, 
 Professor of Archaeology. 
 
 University of Chicago, 
 
 Chicago, Jan. 24, 1911. 
 The labor and the spirit of research Professor Sterrett dis- 
 plays commands my admiration. I heartily wish the plan will 
 be realized. I am a student of European History, i.e.. Mediaeval 
 and Modern. But the roots of mediaeval (history) go so deep 
 into the past that I have done a large amount of reading in the 
 history of the Greek and Roman world, and my travel in Medi- 
 terranean lands has quickened my interest in archaeology. 
 
 There is no more important scientific project in the world 
 today than this one, and none which would be of equal cultural 
 benefit to mankind. Professor Sterrett has my heartiest sym- 
 pathy and unbounded admiration. 
 
 (Signed) JAMES WESTFALL THOMPSON. 
 
 Northwestern University, 
 Evanston, Illinois, Jan. 21, 1911. 
 ' The undersigned desire to express their endorsement of the 
 plans for the thorough scientific exploration of Asia Minor as 
 outlined by Professor J. R. S. Sterrett of Cornell University. 
 (Signed) ABRAM W. HARRIS, 
 
 President of Northwestern University, 
 CHARLES J. LITTLE, 
 
 President of Garrett Biblical Institute, 
 THOMAS F. HOLGATE, 
 
 Dean College Liberal Arts, 
 
ISO- 
 DANIEL BONBRIGHT, Dean Emeritus, 
 0. F. LONG, Latin, 
 F. C. EISELEN, Semitic Languages, 
 D. A. HAYES, N. T. Exegesis, 
 JOHN A. SCOTT, Greek, 
 ROY C. FLICKINGER, Greek, 
 ANDREW R. ANDERSON, Latin. 
 
 University of Michigan, 
 
 Ann Arbor, Jan. 10, 1911. 
 
 From my acquaintance with Asia Minor I think I am justified 
 in saying that if an adequate fund for extensive archaeological 
 research is available, no more promising field for its use can be 
 found than that portion of the Ottoman Empire. Professor 
 Sterrett has already achieved such success in several expedi- 
 tions in that region that he is exceptionally prepared to con- 
 tinue similar work. 
 
 I should be delighted if something more could be done to re- 
 veal the Hittite civilization to us. Like the Etruscan it waits to 
 be interpreted. 
 
 (Signed) JAMES R. ANGELL, 
 
 President Emeritus of the University of Michigan ; Sometime 
 U. S. Minister to Turkey. 
 
 University of Michigan, 
 Ann Arbor, January 18, 1911. 
 
 Dr. Sterrett 's proposal to undertake explorations and excava- 
 tions in Asia Minor and Syria on a broad scale not hitherto 
 attempted, and for an indefinitely protracted period, leads us 
 to express the hope that he may be speedily furnished with the 
 means necessary for the accomplishment of his purpose. 
 
 To those regions the eyes of all scholars interested in histori- 
 cal studies, ancient literatures, linguistic science, art, religion 
 ancient and modern, anthropology, humanistic studies in gen- 
 eral, as well as some of the technically called modern sciences, 
 are at present turned. In all of these fields lie problems whose 
 
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 further advancement towards solution awaits the unearthing of 
 the rich material now^ buried for the most part in hundreds of 
 Tells between the Bosphorus and the Tigris. 
 
 The student of primitive Christianity, as well as the Old Testa- 
 ment, longs for an adequate knowledge of the Cults of "Western 
 Asia. Of the Hittite Empire, the intermediary doubtless in 
 many ways between Babylon and Greece, we known as yet prac- 
 tically nothing, though confident that the native tablets and 
 monumental records we desire are to be had for the searching, as 
 "Winckler 's tentative efforts at Boghaz-Koi alone suffice to show. 
 Imagine the treasures to be had in this virgin territory where 
 an observer standing upon the mound of one buried city can 
 count others by the score ! Over two thousand years of human 
 history, of Babylonians and Assyrians, of Hittites, Syrians, the 
 native peoples of Asia Minor, Greeks, Romans, etc., may be illu- 
 minated with an unexpected light. 
 
 Dr. Sterrett's past achievements in this field, his scholarship, 
 practical sense, and strong personality, and not least the regnant 
 ideal that moves him to contemplate an undertaking so arduous 
 and even perilous are the best guarantees that no better director 
 could be chosen. 
 
 (Signed) JAMES A. CRAIG, 
 
 CAMPBELL BONNER, 
 HENRY A. SANDERS, 
 MARTIN L. D'OOGE, 
 JOHN O. REED, 
 
 Dean of the College of Literature, 
 Science and Arts. 
 J. G. WINTER, 
 R. M. WENLEY, 
 H. B. HUTCHINS, 
 
 President of the University of 
 Michigan. 
 
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 University of Michigan. 
 
 Permit me to express the hope that a grant be made for at 
 least a part, if not for the whole, of the plan for the Exploration 
 of Asia Minor and Syria as outlined by Professor Sterrett of 
 Cornell. 
 
 It is my confident belief that important results would accrue 
 to science and knowledge from the projects outlined by him, 
 results that would warrant the expenditure required and that 
 would reflect honor upon the Institution that supports it. 
 (Signed) MARTIN L. D'OOGE. 
 
 P. S. Let me add from what I know of Dr. Sterrett personally 
 and of his previous work in Asia Minor I have the fullest confi- 
 dence in his ability as a scholar and as a leader to conduct such 
 an exploration successfully. M. L. D. 
 
 University of Wisconsin, 
 Madison, Wis., January 14, 1911. 
 The undersigned members of the faculty of the University of 
 Wisconsin join heartily in support of Professor Sterrett 's 
 appeal for a Subvention for Surface Research and for Excava- 
 tions in Asia Minor. There can be no question that Asia Minor 
 is now the field offering greatest promise for further light upon 
 the early history of mankind, and the unanimity with which this 
 appeal is supported by the best scholars of the whole civilized 
 world would seem to prove not only the importance of the vast 
 undertaking but also the preeminent fitness of Professor Sterrett 
 to conduct the work. 
 
 (Signed) CHARLES FORSTER SMITH, 
 M. S. SLAUGHTER, 
 GRANT SHOWERMAN, 
 DANA C. MUNRO, 
 CARL RUSSELL FISH, 
 G. C. SELLERY, 
 ALFRED L. P. DENNIS, 
 FREDERIC L. PAXSON, 
 W. L. WESTERMANN, 
 
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 A. G. LAIRD, 
 Gr. C. FISKE. 
 Approved, CHARLES R. VAN HISE, President of the Uni- 
 versity of Wisconsin. 
 
 The University of Minnesota, 
 
 President's Office, 
 Minneapolis, January 26, 1911. 
 I have been greatly interested in reading Dr. J. R. S. Ster- 
 rett's plan for Archaeological, historical and geographical re- 
 search in Asia Minor and Syria. It seems to me that if the plan 
 is carried out, it will result in securing a vast amount of buried 
 material that would be invaluable as throwing light on the past ; 
 and I believe Dr. Sterrett to be eminently well qualified to 
 carry out the plan successfully and I think he should receive 
 the earnest support of all scholars in his effort to secure the 
 funds necessary for the undertaking. 
 
 (Signed) CYRUS NORTHROP, President of the University of 
 Minnesota. 
 
 The University of Minnesota, 
 Minneapolis, January 18, 1911. 
 
 We, the undersigned, members of the faculty of the College 
 of Science, Literature ar^d the Arts of the University of Minne- 
 sota, heartily endorse Professor Sterrett 's efforts to obtain sup- 
 port for scientific exploration, excavation and research in Syria 
 and Asia Minor. We are deeply impressed with the necessity 
 and importance of such work, with its truly altruistic character, 
 for it means the opening up of new mines of knowledge and 
 truth to the world. 
 
 The excavation thus far carried on in Mesopotamia and cer- 
 tain spots of Asia Minor, and the results obtained, have shown 
 the learned world how important such work is for the advance- 
 ment of our knowledge of the development of the world's cul- 
 ture. Many a chapter has been added to the history of the 
 world; the story, though fragmentary, of many an empire can 
 
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 now be told of which in the not very distant past only the 
 name was known. But so far only a beginning has been made, 
 and the mounds of Asia Minor in particular contain treasures 
 of untold value to the scientific world which are yet to be 
 brought to light. We therefore hope that Professor Sterrett's 
 efforts will be crowned with abundant success. 
 
 (Signed) JOHN CORRIN HUTCHINSON, 
 
 CHARLES ALBERT SAVAGE, 
 
 J. S. CLARK, 
 
 C. W. BENTON, 
 
 NORMAN WILDE, 
 
 S. N. DEINARD, 
 
 CARL SCHLENKER, 
 
 GEO. N. BAUER, 
 
 FRANK MALOY ANDERSON, 
 
 WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS, 
 
 ALBERT ERNEST JENKS, 
 
 GISLE BOTHNE, 
 
 HARDIN CRAIG, 
 
 EDWARD VAN DYKE ROBINSON,. 
 
 JOHN G. MOORE, 
 
 JOSEPH B. PIKE. 
 
 The University of Nebraska, 
 Lincoln, Neb., February 8, 1911. 
 
 We give our most hearty endorsement to the great under- 
 taking proposed by Professor J, R. S. Sterrett of an exhaustive 
 archaeological exploration of Asia Minor and Syria. 
 
 This -work, methodically and scientifically carried out, must 
 inevitably make many and important additions to the world's 
 knowledge of the past. 
 
 Asia Minor and Syria, for at least three thousand years, were 
 the theatre where many great civilizations successively played 
 their parts. In this region dwelt that great pre-Hellenic people, 
 the Hittites, the revelation of whose history and culture is now 
 forming an entirely new volume of human knowledge. There 
 is furthermore good reason for confident hope that in the 
 
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 ruins of the famous Greek and Roman cities of Ionia, Caria, and 
 Cilicia there lie untouched many treasures of the utmost value 
 to classical learning; while in the fields of early Christian and 
 Byzantine art and life new and illuminating discoveries are to 
 be expected from a systematic search such as this plan pro- 
 poses. 
 
 The scheme is gigantic in its scope, but with the facilities of 
 modern science, the permanent enlistment in the work of 
 trained specialists in the various fields of research, and under 
 so experienced and competent a director-general as Dr. Ster- 
 rett the project is perfectly feasible. The plan has received 
 the endorsement of nearly every scholar of prominence in 
 Europe whose work lies along these lines, and since the work 
 promises such rich and varied results, and the need of imme- 
 diate action is so urgent we join in recommending that an ade- 
 quate support be given this undertaking for a term of at least 
 twenty years. 
 
 (Signed) J. T. LEES, 
 WM. F. DANN. 
 
 To Chancellor Avery, 
 
 The University of Nebraska. 
 
 The University of Nebraska, 
 
 Chancellor's Office, 
 Lincoln, Neb., February 8, 1911. 
 I am pleased to give my cordial endorsement to the general 
 plan, and to express my confidence in the judgment of my 
 esteemed colleagues, Professors Lees and Dann. 
 (Signed) S. AVERY, 
 
 Chancellor of the University of 
 Nebraska. 
 
 University of Missouri, 
 Columbia, Mo., January 4, 1911. 
 Professor Sterrett's proposition to secure a fund for archae- 
 ological, historical and geographical research in Asia Minor 
 
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 and Syria seems to us to be a matter of the greatest importance 
 and one that should meet a hearty response from all persons 
 interested in Ancient History and Life. We, therefore, take 
 pleasure in commending most heartily the movement and 
 pledge our earnest cooperation. 
 
 (Signed) W. G. MANLY, 
 
 G. C. SCOGGIN, 
 
 J. C. JONES, 
 
 EVA JOHNSTON, 
 
 N. M. TRENHOLME, 
 
 JOHN PICKARD, 
 
 JONAS VILES, 
 
 E. B. BRANSON, 
 
 E. H. RIEDEL, 
 
 A. T. OLMSTEAD, 
 
 University of Missouri, 
 Columbia, Mo., March 20, 1911. 
 
 I wish to express my heartiest sympathy with Professor Ster- 
 rett's effort to secure for us American scholars the honor of 
 being the first to place on a permanent, and therefore efficient 
 basis, the exploration of the Nearer East. I have been amazed 
 at the unanimity with which foreign scholars of all schools have 
 urged the necessity of the work and have promised cooperation, 
 and I am sure that Americans will feel that they cannot afford 
 to show themselves less eager for the success of the project. 
 
 The foreign supporters of the project have again and again 
 urged the need of haste. Three years of archaeological ex- 
 perience in the lands of the Eastern Mediterranean have made 
 this fact only too painfully evident to me. For example, at one 
 place we found an inscription dug out that day by the natives, 
 one corner of which had already been chipped away. In the 
 fading light, we made as good a copy as the conditions would 
 allow, and the stone went into the lime Mln. For one inscrip- 
 tion which is thus barely rescued, no one knows how many are 
 daily lost. Nor is this loss of minor moment. Only those who 
 have attempted to study the history of Western Asia from the 
 
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 sources can realize how very little we really know. Our so- 
 called history is still largely conjecture, based often on the 
 most inadequate material. Critical study of what little we have 
 is indeed doubly necessary in the poverty of our sources, but 
 one small excavation, or even a field trip, will often add far 
 more to our knowledge than years of study in the library. Real' 
 advances in our knowledge of the history of these countries can 
 come only from new material. That new material is being 
 brought to light constantly by native diggers, but it is at once 
 destroyed and is lost to us for ever. Unless work such as Pro- 
 fessor Sterrett advocates is undertaken, and that too very soon, 
 a real history of the Ancient Orient will remain for all time, as 
 it certainly is now, an utter impossibility. 
 
 With the hope that America may soon have taken away the 
 reproach of comparative indifference to archaeological work, I 
 remain, 
 
 (Signed) A. T. OLMSTEAD. 
 
 Washington University, 
 Saint Louis, Mo., March 22, 1911. 
 We are exceedingly glad that a systematic attempt is con- 
 templated for the scientific exploration and discovery of 
 ancient sites in Asia Minor. 
 
 The need of a substantial grant of money is testified by the 
 many known problems of importance still awaiting solution. 
 
 That Prof. Sterrett is the man best appointed for the task 
 by training and experience we assume entirely and wish him 
 great success in this most laudable endeavor. 
 
 (Signed) FREDERIC A. HALL, 
 GEORGE R. THROOP. 
 
 The State University of Iowa, 
 
 College of Liberal Arts, 
 Iowa City, la., February 11, 1911. 
 The undersigned endorse most heartily Professor Sterrett 's 
 plan for research in Asia Minor and Syria. The project seems 
 to us wisely conceived and worthy to receive the ungrudging 
 
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 sympathy of all persons who are interested in matters of the 
 spirit. As to his own fitness to execute the plan, we are 
 entirely assured. American scholars will be grateful and proud 
 if it should be made possible for this broad and altruistic under- 
 taking to be realized. 
 
 (Signed) GEORGE E. MACLEAN, 
 
 President of the State University of 
 Iowa. 
 WM. C. WILCOX, 
 
 Dean and Professor of History. 
 F. C. EASTMAN, Latin, 
 FRANKLIN H. POTTER, Latin, 
 GEORGE M. SHARRARD, Latin, 
 CHARLES HEALD WELLER, 
 
 Greek and Archaeology. 
 
 Cornell College, 
 
 Mt. Vernon, Iowa. 
 I commend the proposed plan of Professor J. R. S. Sterrett in 
 relation to exploration and excavation in Asia Minor. The 
 importance and richness of the fields are well put in Professor 
 Sterrett 's published proposal, and there is nobody in this coun- 
 try, I believe, who is so w^ell prepared as he for this under- 
 taking. My estimate of him is based upon his past work as a 
 scholar and upon a season's travel and work with him in 
 Greece. 
 
 The expedition he proposes would render great service to 
 the world and would reflect great credit upon American schol- 
 arship and enterprise. 
 
 (Signed) W. S. EBERSOLE. 
 
 University of Colorado. 
 I should like to take the liberty of stating my opinion that 
 money spent upon an intelligent excavation of carefully selected 
 portions of Asia Minor would be well invested and would yield 
 rich returns. 
 
 (Signed) B. R. HELLEMS. 
 
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 University of California, 
 
 Office of the President, 
 Berkeley, California, February 13, 1911. 
 Professor Sterrett's plan for research in Asia Minor is ad- 
 mirable. I hope it may be carried out. We ought long ere this 
 to have utilized Professor Sterrett's unique fitness for this 
 work. 
 
 I am glad to say that I approve totally and utterly of the 
 plan. 
 
 (Signed) BENJ. IDE WHEELER, 
 
 President of the University of California. 
 
 University of California, 
 
 Berkeley, CaL, Jan. 5, 1911. 
 The undersigned, professors in the University of California, 
 heartily and unreservedly endorse the project of Professor Ster- 
 rett for the thorough exploration of Asia Minor. 
 
 (Signed) EDWARD BULL CLAPP, 
 WILLIAM A. MERRILL, 
 JAMES TURNEY ALLEN, 
 IVAN M. LINFORTH, 
 LEON J. RICHARDSON, 
 WILLIAM POPPER, 
 CLIFTON PRICE. 
 
 Leland Stanford Junior University, 
 
 Stanford University, California, Feb. 12, 1911. 
 
 I am convinced that it is precisely from further exploration in 
 
 Asia Minor that the most valuable help for the settlement of the 
 
 most important problems of early European history is to be 
 
 looked for. 
 
 I am very glad to give the project my unqualified endorse- 
 ment. If carried out on a large scale finds of immense signifi- 
 cance are certain to be made, and great credit w^ould be due to 
 America for carrying out so important a work. 
 
 (S'igned) A. T. MURRAY. 
 
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 Queens University, 
 Kingston, Canada, January 11th, 1911. 
 
 We, the undersigned members of the staff of Queens Uni- 
 versity, beg leave to record our hearty sympathy with the peti- 
 tion of Professor Sterrett, that a grant be made for archaeo- 
 logical and historical research in Asia Minor and Syria. The 
 labours of archaeologists in various parts of the world have 
 yielded in recent times valuable and sometimes brilliant addi- 
 tions to our knowledge of the past history of mankind, but it 
 may confidently be said that in no region have the results ob- 
 tained been comparable with those which may be expected from 
 such work in Asia Minor and Syria, undertaken by experts 
 equipped with adequate resources. The work already done by 
 Sir William Ramsay and others has thrown light on many a 
 dark corner of history, but that light is dim indeed compared 
 with what the near future may bring forth. The beginnings of 
 nations, the progress of mankind, the lives and customs of peo- 
 ples, many of which have for us sacred associations which make 
 our ignorance of them all the more tantalizing, the birth of 
 Hellenic and other civilisations, all these may be elucidated 
 through the timely assistance of a generous hand. The outcome 
 would probably surpass our wildest dreams. Surely no project 
 before the educated world to-day is more worthy of support. 
 
 There are many highly-trained and zealous archaeologists 
 ready to tackle the work. "There is no time like the present'* 
 for such an enterprise. The march of civilisation and the wear 
 and tear of the years are fast burying or effacing forever the 
 precious monuments of bygone ages. We would respectfully 
 submit that of all the channels in which a large-hearted gener- 
 osity could distribute itself, none could be more worthy, none 
 more honorable to the American nation than the scheme pro- 
 jected by Professor Sterrett, and we may add that the name of 
 the petitioner is a sure guarantee that the scheme will be effi- 
 ciently executed, should the means be forthcoming. 
 (Signed) DANIEL M. GORDON, 
 
 Vice-Chancellor and Principal, 
 W. B. ANDERSON, 
 G. W. MITCHELL. 
 
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 University of Toronto, 
 
 Toronto, Jany. 12th, 1911. 
 We, the undersigned members of the staff of the University 
 of Toronto, unite in adding our recommendations to those al- 
 ready given by other great Universities, and by many indi- 
 vidual scholars of world-wide authority, in favour of Professor 
 Sterrett's proposal in connection with archaeological explora- 
 tion in Syria and Asia Minor. 
 
 We believe that the science of archaeology, and human 
 knowledge generally, would gain greatly, if a body controlling 
 funds could be induced to aid in a substantial manner the un- 
 dertaking in question ; and at the same time that body, because 
 of its generous assistance, would receive the approbation of all 
 those interested in the advance of historical science. 
 Signed) ROBT. A. FALCONER, 
 
 President of the University of Toronto. 
 
 MAURICE BUTTON, Principal, 
 
 J. FLETCHER, 
 
 G. 0. SMITH, 
 
 G. W. JOHNSTON, 
 
 W. S. MILNER, 
 
 J. C. ROBERTSON, 
 
 A. J. BELL, 
 
 A. CARRUTHERS. 
 
 McGill University, 
 Montreal, 4th January, 1911. 
 An endowed institution will be doing an epoch-making piece 
 of work if it should find it possible to grant a large and long 
 continued subvention for the carrying out of Professor Ster- 
 rett's project. Excavation in Asia Minor and Syria has the 
 great attraction that it enables us to fill in what have been 
 shown to be positive gaps in our historical knowledge ; and as 
 we believe that the future has great things in store with which 
 to reward patient and well-directed investigation, we are glad 
 
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 to have the opportunity of joining our testimony, to that of 
 others in support of Professor Sterrett's proposals. 
 (Signed) W. PETERSON, 
 
 Principal of McGill University, 
 JOHN MACNAUGHTON, 
 A. JUDSON EATON. 
 
 McGill University, 
 Montreal, January 6, 1911. 
 I must send you a personal line to congratulate you on hav- 
 ing conceived so important a project and to express the hope 
 that you wiU. be seuccessful in carrying it through. I am one 
 of those who have great hopes for the future in connection with 
 the work of excavation. 
 
 (Signed) W. PETERSON, Principal of McGill University. 
 
 Dalhousie College, 
 Halifax, N. S., January 14, 1911. 
 I am heartily in sympathy with Professor Sterrett's proposed 
 scheme for archaeological and historical research in Asia 
 Minor, and I sincerely hope that his appeal for funds for carry- 
 ing out a work of such profound interest and importance may 
 meet with a generous response. 
 
 (Signed) HOWARD MURRAY, Dean of Dalhousie College. 
 
 Wellesley College, 
 
 March 30th, 1911. 
 The field is a rich one and such an expedition as that pro- 
 posed seems to us likely to be fruitful in results for geographi- 
 cal and classical and allied subjects. 
 
 Professor Sterrett's own extended experience as a traveller 
 and an archaeologist has rendered him peculiarly well fitted to 
 conduct the expedition with success. We feel confident that 
 under his efficient leadership it will prove an honor to American 
 scholarship. 
 
 (Signed) ANGIE CLARA CHAPIN, M. A., 
 
 ANNIE SYBIL MONTAGUE, M. A., 
 KATHARINE MAY EDWARDS, Ph.D. 
 Professors of Greek in Wellesley College. 
 
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 Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis. 
 
 At a meeting of the above Society, held in New York City, 
 December 31st, 1910, the following resolution was recommended 
 by the Council, and was then unanimously adopted by the 
 Society : 
 
 Resolved, That we heartily endorse the petition of Professor 
 J. R. S. Sterrett of Cornell University for an appropriation 
 sufficient to carry out a project for exploration and excavation 
 in Asia Minor and Northern Syria. 
 
 A true copy. Attest, 
 
 (Signed) WM. H. COBB, Recording Secretary. 
 Boston, March 16, 1911. 
 
 Archaeological Institute of America, 
 
 Office of the General Secretary, 
 Washington, D. C, January 11, 1911. 
 I beg to add my hearty endorsement to the many testimonials 
 Professor Sterrett has received in regard to the project for 
 research in Asia Minor and Syria, so convincingly stated in the 
 pamphlet issued by him. I feel that a large sum of money 
 could be most wisely spent in carrying through this project, 
 and all younger archaeologists are happy to recognize Professor 
 Sterrett 's preeminence in this field. 
 
 (Signed) MITCHELL CARROLL. 
 
 The Independent, 
 Editorial Rooms, 
 New York, January 5, 1911. 
 I have read with great interest Professor Sterrett 's scheme 
 for a campaign of excavation in Asia Minor. I greatly rejoice 
 in the possibility that it may be translated into actuality. 
 
 Egypt has been explored and excavated for a hundred years. 
 Probably the bulk of information there has been secured, 
 although unexpected discoveries may there turn up at any 
 time, as at Elephantine. In the Euphrates and Tigris valleys 
 the explorers have been at work, French, English, German, and 
 
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 American, for fifty years, and at least the outlines of Baby- 
 lonian and Assyrian history have been secured, and of art and 
 religion as well, with not a little of the history of the neighbor- 
 ing countries. East, West, and North. But we have hardly put 
 the spade into the mounds of Asia Minor, really at only two or 
 three sites, but how rich the results in those cases ! the Hittite 
 capital at Boghaz-Keui, with its treaty with Egypt, and its 
 mention of Aryan deities, and farther west in Cilicia the statues 
 and long inscriptions of Aramaean kings. These are the first 
 fruits, and the richest archaeological field in the world is be- 
 fore us, almost untouched. It would be magnificent if America 
 could have the honor of attempting this service to the world, as 
 great as our scholarship could desire. . And I believe that Pro- 
 fessor Sterrett could do it. He has experience, and he has 
 quiet enthusiasm and perseverance. I knew him as my asso- 
 ciate in the Wolfe Expedition to Babylonia in 1884-5, and then 
 recognized his fitness for such work. No one would be more 
 delighted than I, if such a plan could find support, with Pro- 
 fessor Sterrett as its leader. 
 
 (Signed) WILLIAM HAYES WARD, 
 Leader of the Wolfe Expedition to Babylonia. President 
 American Oriental Society in 1909-10. Author of The Seal Cyl- 
 inders of Western Asia. 
 
 St. Michael's Church, 
 New York, January 6, 1911. 
 
 Certainly there is no part of the world Avhich gives greater 
 promise of important results from exploration and excavation 
 than Asia Minor. To those of us who have been working on 
 the history of ancient civilization, it has seemed for some time 
 as though Asia Minor holds the key which will unlock our 
 problems. 
 
 I need only add a word to the letters of others to express my 
 belief that such work as Professor Sterrett proposes in Asia 
 Minor will produce astonishing results in the increase of our 
 knowledge of the history of civilization and religion. The plan 
 
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 is, in relation to what we have heretofore done in archaeological 
 research, so audacious in its scope and magnitude that for a 
 moment it made me halt. It is something beyond the wildest 
 dreams of scientific archaeological research which I have ever 
 had; but just on that account I believe that it will appeal to 
 the modern men of our time, who, with their great wealth, are 
 handling scientific problems on a scale hitherto undreamt of. 
 Men and institutes deal with them on a great scale, to produce 
 important and far-reaching results. There are few fields of 
 research which offer a better opportunity to do this than Asia 
 Minor. Personally I know only its fringe. More intimately I 
 know Syria ; and my knowledge of the fringe of Asia Minor and 
 Syria shows me that Avhat is to be done must be done quickly, 
 very quickly, or else an immense amount of valuable material 
 will be destroyed, and to do this work quickly it must be done 
 also on a large scale. 
 
 (Signed) JOHN P. PETERS, 
 Leader of the Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania 
 to Babylonia, Excavator at Nippur. 
 
 University of Virginia, 
 Charlottesville, Va., February 17, 1911. 
 I am profoundly interested in the whole thing. I only wish 
 I could do more to advance it. I feel that already Professor 
 Sterrett has done a good work for the cause of the higher cul- 
 ture and the higher learning, and incidentally, he has done his 
 duty, which no one else could relieve him of. 
 
 I know what trouble, labor, vexations, and disappointments it 
 has cost, and rejoice that he is proof against them all. 
 
 He cannot possibly fail if there is any response to the ideal in 
 our democracy. 
 
 (Signed) THOMAS FITZ HUGH. 
 
 Hamilton College, 
 Clinton, N. Y., January 9, 1911. 
 The printed book of endorsements that Professor Sterrett has 
 secured is remarkable not only for the wealth of information it 
 
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 contains concerning Asia Minor as a field of exploration, but in 
 presenting the testimony of such an assemblage of specialists, 
 who speak from intimate knowledge, each in his own field of 
 learning; who would certainly not stultify themselves by en- 
 dorsing an American scholar merely as an act of kindly feeling. 
 If any one should think for a moment that Professor Sterrett is 
 furthering his private ambitions, he should consider that there 
 are times when modesty is folly. The testimony of W. M. Ram- 
 say alone is a guarantee of his peculiar fitness for organizing 
 and beginning so vast an undertaking. How few men at his 
 time of life, with such rich experience, would have the energy to 
 undertake so arduous a task! Professor Sterrett knows the 
 Turkish language and the people with whom he would have to 
 deal, and is familiar with the details of the plan which he out- 
 lines, and he places himself at the service of those who may be 
 willing to promote the undertaking. The establishment of such 
 a permanent plan of exploration would be a means of giving 
 classical studies and all ancient learning a tremendous impetus. 
 
 (Signed). HERMAN LOUIS EBELING. 
 
 Johns Hopkins University, 
 Baltimore, January 3, 1911. 
 It is a great pleasure to me that Professor Sterrett has been 
 able to make use of my letter as a general introduction to the 
 host of endorsements that he has marshalled in his pamphlet. I 
 venture to say that no other American could have secured such 
 support as he has received. My letter was not a bit too 
 emphatic. 
 
 (Signed) B. L. GILDERSLEEVE. 
 
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