BUDGET FOR 1943-1944 For the coming year the Publications Committee requests a re-appropriation of $5,000 for Corinth, Volume XII. For Hesperia Supplement VII, the Committee requests a re-appropriat ion of $2,000. For the index volume to Hesperia I-X and Hesperia Supplements I-VI che Committee requests a re-appropri ation of $4,000, and for the journal Hesperia itself, rogether with overhead, the Committee requests an appropriation of new money in the amount of $5,000. It will be observed here chat there is no request made as yet for Mrs. Stillwell's volume on the Potters' Quarter and no request is made for an appropriat ion to continue work on the index: volume, the $4,000 listed above being the estimate of cost of publication only. It is the plan of the Publications Committ ee tO carry on preparation of the volume in the manner oudined in the earlier paragraphs of this report. The war effort has also made itself felt in the work of the Committee because of the necessity for it to turn in as scrap all half-cones and line-engravings for which furore use is not assured. General Conservation Order M-99 of the War Production Board gives a detailed set of regulations to govern the conversion of such material to war purposes. Members of the Managing Committee will remember that several years ago a large consignment of plates was imported from Germany repre­ senting the stock of illustrati ons for books and numbers of Hesperia that had been printed by Adolf H olzhausens Nachfolger in Vienna. Inasmuch as not all these places will be used again, the Committee may console itself for the financial loss at­ tendant upon the use of this material as scrap metal with the thought that some of it will be sent back to Germany in another form. The process of sorting out the plates to be used from those that are not to be used is very tedious and to date has been about half accomplished. The members of the Publications Commi ttee have agreed on a general policy of selection, and the Managing Committ ee may be assured that the regulations of the War Production Board are being complied with in full just as rapidly as our facilities for sorting the material permit. The Publications Committee cannot close its report on the work of the past year without making some general estimate of prospects for the furore. The amount of publica tion in years just ahead will probably not be so great as in the two or three years immediately past. On the other hand, there are certain fixed obligations which the Committee hopes will always be met. The fuse of these is Hesperia, which by general consent is now standardized as a volume of some four hundre d pages. The contr ibutors to Hesperia will more and more in the next few years be distracted from their academic obligations. It has already come about that much of the preliminary arrangement of articles and even much verification of references has fallen to the lot of the Managing Editor, since the authors themselves are in service and far re­ moved from any chance to consult a proper library. It has become increasingly evi­ dent also, during the past year, that the only way in which the Publications Com­ mitte e will succeed in bringing to completion the index volume of Hesperia will be 38 to do the necessary ~ork ~ithin its own organization. This means that the greater ~art _of the prep~rau~n a gam will fall co the lot of the Managing Editor. The Pub­ h~attons _Commmee JS of th: opinion that in the years ahead the Managing Editor will conunue to h~ve the dunes of a full-time posicion in furthering the publications of the School, takmg over where necessary many duties which might normally be expected to fall upon the authors rather than upon the editor. The Committee ven­ ~res to make no prediction about the amount of work that will be possible when the ume comes once more to re-open the School in Athens, or how it will be related to past and present plans for School publication. There will be difficulties which one can_noc now foresee, and i~ is quite possible that there will be changes in personnel whtch may alter any establ!shed program. Bur the Committee feels nevertheless that the w~rk of publicati~n w~ remain one of the first obligations of the School and from Jts ?re~ent ex:per_tence ~~ feels convinced that this obligation can be met only by the conu nwng actenu~n wht~h a permanent Managing Editor can best give co its p~oble ms. In concludmg thts report the Committee wishes co emphasize the in­ dtspensable narore of his duties to the scholarly work of the School. Princeton, New Jersey May 8,1943 39 Benjamin D. Meritt Chairman