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His last outdoor work of iinpoi taiico was the oxcavation of Elden 

 Pueblo, noar Fla^stalT, Ariz., in 1926. 



As chief of the Bureau of Ethnology Doctor Fewkes also found 

 time to interest himself in the archeoloiry of the southeastern part of 

 our country which he visited several times. His most important 

 undertaking here was the excavation of the Weeden Island mound, 

 near St. Petei-sburg, Fla., in the winter of 1923-24, and it is charac- 

 teristic of his archeological optimism that his very last expedition 

 consisted in a " reconnaissance " of the Piedmont region of South 

 Carolina in June, 1927, looking toward more extensive investigations 

 at some later period. 



In April, 1925, Doctor Fewkes had to undergo a severe operation 

 and, while he returned to the field, as noted, in 1926 and 1927, he 

 never recovered fully from its effects. After his return from the 

 South in 1927 he suffered a fall and, as a result of it, became so much 

 weaker that on January 15, 1928, he resigned as chief of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology but continued on its staff until November. 

 His death took place on May 31, 1930, his wife, who had been his 

 constant field companion, preceding him by a few weeks. 



Doctor Fewkes was a member of the National Academy of Sciences 

 and an honorary or corresponding member of many scientific societies, 

 American and foreign. He was secretary of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History from 1889 to 1891, vice president and chairman of 

 section H of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science in 1901 and again in 1915, president of the Anthropological 

 Society of Washington in 1909 and 1910, president of the American 

 Anthropological Association in 1911 and 1912, and for more than 30 

 years he was on the visiting committee of the Peabody Museum at 

 Harvard University. 



In January, 1915, he was the official representative of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution at the inauguration of Doctor KleinSmid as presi- 

 dent of the University of Arizona and had bestowed upon him by 

 that institution the degree of LL. D. On the occasion of his seven- 

 tieth birthday, November 14, 1920, a luncheon was given in his honor 

 at the Smithsonian building, participated in by about 40 of his 

 friends, and a specially bound volume of letters of congratulation 

 was presented to him. His last public act was the presentation of a 

 bust of Louis Agassiz to the Hall of Fame on behalf of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science and an unnamed admirer 

 of the great naturalist. This took place on May 10, 1928, Doctor 

 Fewkes being the only pupil of Agassiz then living able to be present. 



His publications include, besides the two papers on electricity 

 already mentioned, nearly 70 contributions to invertebrate zoology, 

 mainly the Medusae, Eohinodermata, and Vermes, and about 200 

 contributions to ethnology and archeology. 



