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New York journal the Illustrated American. Its object is a 

 thorough study of the cliff-buildings of the Colorado district. 

 Mr. Moorehead is one of the most enthusiastic of our young 

 archaeologists, and has already done admirable work in Ohio 

 mound exploration. He was for some time with Mr. Wilson at 

 the Smithsonian Institution, and has recently been making some 

 remarkably successful excavations for the World's Fair. The 

 Colorado expedition started February 29th, and is to be in prog- 

 ress for some months. 



Mr. Ad. F. Bandelier, by parentage a Frenchman, is one of our 

 most scholarly and critical students in that most difficult field 

 Spanish America. He has been markedly successful both in 

 field-work and in study of the old Spanish records. Follow- 

 ing the line of criticism so ably used by the late Lewis H. Mor- 

 gan, Mr. Bandelier has destroyed much of the romance of Aztec 

 and Peruvian history ; but from the ruins he has reconstructed 

 pictures of these most interesting societies that are lifelike, and 

 far more in accordance with 

 the genius of the American 

 race than the old ones. His 

 papers at first published in 

 the annual reports of the 

 Peabody Museum, but lat- 

 terly in the publications of 

 the American Archaeologi- 

 cal Institute are models of 

 scholarship. Mr. Bandelier 

 is now planning an impor- 

 tant exploration into Peru- 

 Ecuador. It is to be hoped 

 that he may have no diffi- 

 culty in finding the finan- 

 cial support that he needs. 



Two ladies are doing re- 

 markable work in Amer- 

 ican anthropology. Mrs. 

 Zelia Nuttall works in the 

 same field as Mr. Bande- 

 lier. Although an Ameri- 

 can, Mrs. Nuttall lives at Dresden, Germany. She surrounds herself 

 with an Aztec atmosphere ; her library, one of the richest in Mexi- 

 can works in existence, is cased in pieces of furniture whose forms 

 and decorations are drawn from Mexican architecture. On all 

 relating to Mexican archaeology and history she is an authority. 

 Two of the Peabody Museum monographs are by her one upon a 

 curious feather head-dress, the other upon the Mexican throwing- 



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