Schools of Art

Italy.

A few of the many organizations interested in the arts are listed. Rome : Society "In Arte Libertas"; Associazione Inter nazionale Artistica; Associazione Artistica fra i cultori d'Archi tectura; Associazione Archeologica Rornana; Society degli Ama tori e Cultori di Belle Arti; Society degli Acquarellisti; Society Archeologica Anglo-Americana. Florence : Associazione Nationale degli Artisti; Society Artistica; Society Fiorentina per le Sculture artistiche; R. Accademia di Belle Arti. Bologna: Comitato per Bologna Storico-Artistica; R. Sopraintendenza alle Belle Arti dell' Emilia: R. Accademia di Belle Arti; Bottega d'arte. Naples: Circolo Numismatico Napoletano; R. Accademia di Archeologia Lettere e Belle Arti; Genoa : Society di Belle Arti; Society Promo trice di Belle Arti; Society Alere Flamman; Circolo Artistico "Tunnel." Milan : Society Italiana di Numismatica; R. Acca demia di Belle Arti.

Other European Countries.

The following societies of art are among the more important : Amsterdam (Holland), Maat schappij "Arti et Amicitiae"; Budapest (Hungary), the Society of Hungarian Painters and Etchers; Warsaw (Poland), the Societe des Beaux Arts a Varsovie; Berne (Switzerland), La Societe des Peintres et Sculpteurs Suisses; Madrid (Spain), L'Association des Artistes Espagnols; Lisbon (Portugal), Socie dade Nationale de Bellas Artes y Gremio Artistico.

The oldest society dealing with oriental archaeology is claimed to be the Kon. Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Weten

schappen, Java, founded in 1778, closely followed by the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784. In England, the Royal Asiatic Society (1823) has branches in many places in Asia, and also in Canada.

The following societies are the most important in Europe: London: The Royal Asiatic Society (1823) with 95o members and a library of 30,00o volumes, and the India Society (Iwo), with 35o members; Paris: the Association Francaise des Amis de l'Orient (1920) ; The Hague : the Vereenigung van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst (1918) ; Berlin: the Gesellschaft fiir Ost asiatische Kunst (1926) ; Vienna: the V erein der Freunde Asiatischer Kunst and Kultur (1920) ; Rome: the Istituto per l'Oriente (1921) ; Budapest, Stockholm, Oslo, and Copenhagen have small but active societies.

Other societies interested in the art of the Far East are: the Royal Asiatic Society with the Bombay Branch at Bombay, the Ceylon Branch at Colombo, and the Malayan Branch at Singa pore; the Indian Society of Oriental Art (1907), Calcutta; the Mythic Society (1909), Bangalore; the Burma Research Society (Iwo), Burma; the Punjab Historical Society (Iwo), Lahore; the Hyderabad Archaeological Society (1915), Hyderabad; and the Bihar and Orissa Research Society, Patna. (See INDIAN