DESCRIPTION OF INCA RUINS

Professor Hiram Bingham, of Yale, will give an illustrated lecture on his recent descoveries in Peru in the New Lecture Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The Yale Peruvian Expedition, of which Professor Bingham is the director, explored much hitherto unknown territory in the Andean region, and found several ruined Inca cities of great archaeological interest. The largest of these, "Machu Picchu," the most perfectly preserved Inca city known, was entirely excavated. The buildings were perched, upon the top of an almost inaccessible ridge, two thousand feet above the Urubamba River. In the excellence of its masonry, the daring of its architecture, and the extraordinary manner in which every available inch of tillable soil was terraced up and utilized, this group of ruins is quite unique.

Professor Bingham will show a large number of very fine lantern slides, both of the ruins and of the wild and mountainous scenery of the neighborhood. The lecture is under the auspices of the Harvard Anthropological Club, and will be open to the public.