552 PROGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1890. 



:i-ol()<iical Institute of America and the Anieiicaii School of Classical 

 Studies at Athens, whose headquarters are at Cambridge, Massachu- 

 setts. All branches of archa'l()<>y and art, oriental, classical, early 

 Christian Mediaeval, and American, find a medium of utterance in the 

 Jonrnah The Institute welcomes to its membershi[) all men and women 

 who desire to aid and share in the advance of knowledge concerning 

 the past of the human race. 



American archa'logy has its organs in th^ American Antiquarian, the 

 American Anthro2)ologist, the reports of the Peabody Museum, the pub- 

 lications of the U. S. Smithsonian Institution, and the U. S. National 

 Museum, the series of publications issued by Dr. D. (x, Brinton, and 

 the transactions of local societies. 



The Museum of American Archteology in connection with the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania perfected its organization by publishing its tirst 

 Annual Report, Vol. i, number 1, containing list of additions to the 

 library, catalogue of accessions, and the first report of the curator, Dr. 

 C. C. Abbott. 



The subject of archjieology has taken on a vigorous growth during 

 the current year. Professor Putnam, of Harvard University and 

 Peabody Museum, has carefully studied the prehistoric remains in the 

 Ohio valley. In two papers in the Century Magazine, especially he has 

 given in a brief space and in a i)opular manner the result of his 

 minute examinations. Professor Putnam also prepared for the World's 

 Fair Committee a comprehensive plan for an archirological and ethno- 

 graphic exhibit. Over this department Professor Putnam will preside. 

 The researches of the Peabody Museum explorations lead Putnam to 

 the conclusion that the mound-builder was a short-headed South- 

 erner; that his civilization was broken up by a long-headed Northerner, 

 and that the Indian is the result of a mixture of these two. 



The Hemenway southwest archirological expedition bore its first 

 fruit in vol. V, of the Papers of Archaeological Institute of America, 

 American series. Mr. A. F. Bandelier contributes in this volume four 

 papers upon the history of the Southwest, to wit: (1) A sketch of the 

 knowledge which the Spaniards in Mexico possessed of the countries 

 north of the province of New Galicia, previous to the return of Cabeza 

 de Vaca, in the year 1536; (2) Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, and the 

 importance of his wanderings from the Mexican Gulf to tiie slojie of the 

 Pacific for Spanish explorations towards New Mexico and Arizona; (3) 

 Spanish efforts to penetrate to the north of Sinaloa, between the 

 years 153f» and 1530; (4) Fray Marcos of Nizza, and (5) the exi)edition 

 of Pedro de Villazur from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the banks of 

 the Platte Kiver, in search of the French and the Pawnees, in the 

 year 1720. 



William H. Holmes, of the Bureau of Ethnology, publishes the result 

 of an extended exploration in a bowlder quarry near Washington City, 

 at Piney Branch. This site turns out to be a veritable workshop, and 



