INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS DURING THE YEAR 1875. cxxv 



Among the gentlemen present were Professor A. E. Ver- 

 rill, S. J. Smith, and S. F. Clarke, of Yale College ; Dr. Will- 

 iam G. Farlow, of Cambridge ; Professor A. Hyatt, of Bos- 

 ton ; Professor Theodore Gill, Mr. G. Brown Goode, and Mr. 

 *T. H. Beau, of the Smithsonian Institution ; Professor Sander- 

 son Smith, of New York ; and Dr. J. G. Kidder, surgeon of 

 the Blue Light, and numerous occasional visitors of distinc- 

 tion. The collections were very large, embracing a full rep- 

 resentation of "the marine life of the region referred to. 



A large part of the work of the Commission was devoted 

 to obtaining illustrations of the fisheries of Massachusetts, 

 for exhibition at the International Exposition, including the 

 work of securing photographs, colored sketches, and plaster 

 casts of the cetaceans and fishes generally, either originals or 

 models of the various forms of fishing-craft and of the appa- 

 ratus used in the fishery business. 



Although not coming under the head of geographical ex- 

 plorations, it may be proper to make special mention of sun- 

 dry ethnological researches, connected with the preparations 

 for the International Exposition, and conducted, for the most 

 part, under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution and 

 of the Indian Bureau. The first of these to be mentioned is 

 the work of Mr. Paul Schumacher on the islands and main- 

 lands in the vicinity of Santa Barbara, where, with a party of 

 several assistants, he was engaged for several months in 

 making explorations of the graves of the aboriginal inhab- 

 itants. 



A party, detailed by Lieutenant Wheeler, under Dr. H. C. 

 Yarrow, was also engaged simultaneously, in the same region, 

 for the same object. 



After the labors of Mr. Schumacher in the Santa Barbara 

 region were brought to an end, the work was taken up by 

 Rev. Stephen Bowers, and from the three parties an enormous 

 aggregate of interesting objects, and of remarkable variety 

 and beauty, were sent to Washington the whole reaching a 

 weight of over fifteen tons, composed principally of objects 

 of stone, in the form of mortars, pestles, bowls, plates, etc. 

 Mr. Schumacher subsequently continued his researches in 

 Oregon with satisfactory results. 



Mr. James G. Swan, of Port Townsend, was engaged by 

 the Indian Bureau to prosecute researches into the ethnology 



