Herculaneum, past, present & future . ng the whole roll in some compound,they not only are able to restore colour, but to soften the mass,so that it can be unrolled naturally and easily and withoutdamage. So far we have followed the natural history of the objectsthemselves. Now to return to the human workers who foundthem. We left the chief of gang when he took the last step inhis days work, in submitting his day-book to the proper officeof the Archivio degli Scavi, where it was copied out and itscontents transferred to the diff^erent books completing therecords of the work. At the end of ever
Herculaneum, past, present & future . ng the whole roll in some compound,they not only are able to restore colour, but to soften the mass,so that it can be unrolled naturally and easily and withoutdamage. So far we have followed the natural history of the objectsthemselves. Now to return to the human workers who foundthem. We left the chief of gang when he took the last step inhis days work, in submitting his day-book to the proper officeof the Archivio degli Scavi, where it was copied out and itscontents transferred to the diff^erent books completing therecords of the work. At the end of every week each section meets and inconsultation prepares a report of the weeks work and finds,which, together with the suitable and complete preliminaryillustrations from the current photographs and drawings, arethen published weekly in several languages. There areprinting-presses and studios for the reproduction ot process-blocks on the spot. These reports are signed by the heads of ^ Winckelmanns Werke, Dresden, 1808, vol. ii. p. FOUR SILVER MEDALLIONS. Platk 47. Two in liigh iclit-f, two in low relief. Apollo, Artemis, Satyr with lyre, Aniorini. CHAP. IV AFTER EXCAVATION 177 each section and all the assistants, no distinction being general reports on the work as a whole are signed by theChief and the Executive Committee. A great point has beenmade of the necessity of thus publishing rapidly with illustra-tions the result of the work as it proceeds, not only becausethis assures the maintenance of interest in the enterprise allover the world, but also because, in the interest of scienceitself, it favours the proper elaboration of the results withoutunreasonable delay. One of the most deplorable practices of excavators hashitherto been that the most important results of their actualexcavations have been withheld from students and from thepublic for such inordinately long periods. The mere know-ledge that discoveries have been made in certain directions hasprevented
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