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EXPLORATIONS. 



Owing to the very limited means available for tield researches, the 

 amount of work of this character carried on by assistants of the 

 Museum has been relatively small, and most of the expeditions made 

 were only rendered possi))Ie through cooperation with other l)ureaus 

 of the Government or through the generosity of individuals. The 

 Government explorations by which the Museum is most benefited are 

 those conducted by the Geological Survey, the Fish Commission, the 

 Department of Agriculture, and the Bureau of Ethnology of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. Officers of the Army and Navy, with the 

 exceptional opportunities now siiorded them, have also been doing- 

 some excellent work for the Museum, especially in the Philippine 

 Islands. In this connection mention should likewise be made of the 

 important explorations which Dr. W. L. Abbott, of Philadelphia, has 

 been carrying on for several years in the East Indies entirely at his 

 own expense, the results being generously donated to this Institution. 

 The latter comprise large collections in zoology and ethnology, whose 

 value is enhanced by the fact of their coming from a region hitherto 

 but poorly represented in any museum in the world. The held work 

 engaged in during the year by meml^ers of the Museum staff was as 

 follows: 



Mr. W. 11. Holmes, Head Curator of Anthropology, visited Indian 

 Territorv and Missouri, in the former investigating an interesting- 

 deposit of Hint implements and bone utensils associated with the 

 remains of extinct and recent mannuals at Aftou and an ancient chert 

 quarry on the Peoria Indian Reservation, and in the latter examining, 

 near Kimmswick, an extensive deposit of fossil mammals in which 

 human remains were said to occur, and an ancient village site contain- 

 ing stone implements and pottery. The investigations begun by Dr. 

 Walter Hough in Arizona, in June, 1901, were continued through the 

 summer, in conjunction with Mr. Peter G. Gates, of Pasadena, Cali- 

 fornia, and chiefly at the expense of the latter. An archa?ological 

 section was made on a north and south line from Fort Apache to 

 Moki, a distance of about ISO miles, and a large amount of material 

 was obtained. Ethnographical work was also done among the Apache, 

 Navaho, and Hopi Indians, and two new groups of ruins north of 

 Holl)rook were mapped. 



Mr. W. H. Ashmead, who accompanied an expedition of the U. S. 

 Fish Commission to the Hawaiian Islands in May, 1901, for the pur- 

 pose of making collections of insects and of studying the insect fauna 

 of these new possessions, retui'ned late in the summer with an impor- 

 tant lot of material. Mr. B. S. Bowdish, formerly of the U. S. Armj^ 

 in Porto Rico, was employed for about seven months in procuring 

 zoological specimens, chiefly birds, in Porto Rico, in eastern Cuba, 

 and on Mona Island. Mr. C. L. Pollard and Mr. William Palmer 



