NOTE. 



The lirst studies for the followiug paper on " Pipes and Smoking Cus- 

 toms of the American Aborigines'' were made from the ricb collections 

 in the U. S. National Museum, but as the material grew it was sug- 

 gested by Dr. G. Brown (loode, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, that it would be well to carefully consider the pipes con- 

 tained in other public museums and in private collections. Acting on 

 this suggestion, an extensive correspondence ensued with many persons 

 interested in the subject, and, as will be observed, the work has been 

 greatly fa(;ilitated by their courteous assistance. The writer now desires 

 to express his grateful acknowledgments and thanks for the aid 

 afforded him by the loan of specimens, and when this was not possible, 

 of tracings and photographs; also for the list of references suggested, 

 and for the freedom allowed in examination of pipes on all occasions, 

 and in data concerning localities and circumstances under which cer- 

 tain objects were found. 



Among those persons whom the writer desires particularly to mention 

 are Drs. William H. Holmes, Otis T. Mason, Thomas Wilson, and Walter 

 Hough, of the U. S. National Museum; Maj. J. W. Powell, Mr. W J 

 McGee, Dr. J.Walter Fewkes, Mr. F. W. Hodge, and Mr. James Mooney, 

 o.'' the Bureau of American Ethnology; Dr. E. A. Barber aud Mr. Clar- 

 ence B. Moore, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mr. Stewart Culin and 

 Dr. Max Uhle, of the museum of the University of Pennsylvania j Mr. 

 Andrew E. Douglass, of New York; Mr. David Boyle, of Toronto, 

 Canada; liev. W. M. Beauchamp, of Baldwinsville, New York; Col. 

 Bennett H.' Young, of Louisville, Kentucky; Gen. A. L. Pridemore, of 

 Lee County, Virginia; Prof. John Robinson, of Salem, Massachusetts; 

 Mr. Warren K. Moorehead, of the Ohio State University; Capt. H. L. 

 Scott, of the U. S. Army, and Miss Alice Fletcher, of the Peabody 

 Museum of American Archu'ology and P^thnology, Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts. Also my sincere thanks are due to Prof. P. H. Uhler aud 

 Col. William H. Love, of Baltimore, Maryland, and Dr. Frank H. 

 Knowlton and Mr. Charles Schuchert, of Washington, D. C, though it 

 should not be supposed that these kind friends are in anywise respon- 

 sible for any expressions emploj'ed in the body of the monograph unless 

 so quoted. 



.lOSEPU D. McGi IRE. 



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