American School in Palestine.

At the annual meeting of the council of the Archaeological Institute of America, held in New York last Saturday, it was decided to open the school at Jerusalem next October. The office of resident director for the first year has been tendered to Professor C. C. Torrey, Ph.D., a noted Semitic scholar, who has recently been called from the Andover Theological Seminary to the chair in Yale University.

The school has already received pledges of annual contributions for the ensuing five years from the following institutions: The Andover, Auburn, General, Princeton, and Union Theological Seminaries, the Episcopal Theological Schools at Cambridge and Philadelphia and the following universities and colleges: Boston, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Cincinnati, Colgate, New York, Columbia, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Trinity, Western Reserve.

Unfortunately no fellowships have yet been endowed, and consequently students will be obliged to defray their own expenses, which, with economy, need not exceed $500 a year, the voyage out and back included.

Students belonging to any of the institutions above named will be admitted to the school on presenting certificates attesting their qualification. Other applicants will be expected to give evidence of possessing a working knowledge of Latin, Greek and Hebrew, as well as of German and French. Applications and inquiries may be sent to Professor J. H. Thayer, chairman of the committee, 67 Sparks street.