J. S. Bolles 5G, a member of the Graduate School of Architecture, has received a grant from the Carnegie Institute of Washington, to continue his excavations in the Peninsula of Yucatan, Mexico. Bolles is now doing graduate work in the School, and will leave next month to continue his work of unearthing a Mayan temple of the 13th century, on which project he spent six months of last year. F. P. Parris 5G, another member of the School will leave in a fortnight for Guatemala to map a recently discovered Mayan city of the 6th century. He will be accompanied by a party from the University of Pennsylvania.
H. D. Murphy, instructor in Freehand Drawing, preceded Bolles to the site of the city of Chichen-Itza, where he is arranging for the work. Many archcologists from different parts of the United States will join Bolles, among whom Dr. A. V. Kidder '08 of Andover, and Dr. S. G. Morley '07, of the Carnegie Institute, are prominent. The object of the expedition is to trace the development of architecture in relation to the Mayan civilization.
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