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the report have l)een suliinitt('(l diily to the 

 authorities at Wasliiiiyton. 



The final results of the ^fuseuin's investi- 

 gation of the archa'ology of the /uni trilie 

 are soon to be juiblished in the Anthropo- 

 logical Papers. This coiu'ludes one section 

 of the Museum's extended studies of archte- 

 ologieal and ethnological problems in the 

 Southwest. By a reconnaissance of the ruins 

 in the Little Colorado River drainage, which 

 takes in a considerable area in Arizona and 

 New ^[exico, Mr. Leslie Spier has been able 

 to trace tribal movements in the western 

 ]>art of the Pueblo area. He finds that 

 al)out the time the Indians gave up living 

 in ■<iiiall, isolated dwellings and ])egan to 

 build the great communal houses or pueblos, 

 there were two tribes living in this area, one 

 in what is now the Apache country in the 

 White Mountains of Arizona and the other 

 near the present Zuiii pueblo in New Mexico. 

 After a period of parallel development, the 

 New Txlexican group left the area, while the 

 White ^Mountain group moved north to the 

 Little Colorado where they jiresumably 

 joined the Hopi Indians. Again after a 

 perioil of common development the Zuiii 

 left this group, moving northeastward to 

 their present location, while the Ilopi seem 

 to have left the river for the northern 

 Arizona desert. On the basis of this his- 

 torical sketch of Mr. E. H. Morris' work at 

 the Aztec ruin, and of Mr. N. C. Nelson's 

 along the Rio Grande, the members of the 

 Museum staff are constructing a chronology 

 for all the archaeological remains in the 

 Southwest. 



The fourth meeting of the American So- 

 ciety of Ichthyologists and Ilerpetologists 

 was held at the Brooklyn Museum, Novem- 

 ber 15, 1918. Previous meetings have been 

 held at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 16, 

 1017; at the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 Philadelphia, March 8, 1917; and at the 

 American Museum of Natural History, 

 March 8, 1916. The present Brooklyn meet- 

 ing was opened with an address of welcome 

 to the Society by Director Fox of the Brook- 

 lyn Museum. Mr. .J. W. Titcomb, New 

 York State Fish Culturist, spoke of fish 

 conservation in New York State. Dr. Bash- 

 ford Dean told the Society of the late Dr. 

 Charles R. Eastman's work on fossil fishes. 



Dr. William K. Gregory, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, illustrated with 

 figures of the skeletons of dinosaurs the 

 correlation between habit, nniscular devel- 

 opniciit, aud skeletal form. Dr. K. I'hlen- 

 Initli, of the Rockefeller Institute for Medi- 

 cal Research, showed how a study of the 

 blind Texan cave salamander indicated the 

 connections of subterranean waters, and sug- 

 gested that a study of such nonmetamor- 

 phosing amphibians had an important 

 bearing on our knowledge of the glands con- 

 trolling metamorphosis. 



Oflicers were elected as follows : president. 

 Dr. liConhard Stejneger; vice presidents, 

 Dr. Bashford Dean, Dr. Barton W. Ever- 

 mann, and Dr. Thomas Barbour; treasurer, 

 Dr. Henry W. Fowler; secretary, Mr. John 

 T. Nichols. Mr. Carl L. Hubbs, of the 

 Field Museum, Chicago, was elected to the 

 Board of Governors. 



Mr. Roy C. Andrews, leader of the Sec- 

 ond Asiatic Zoological Expedition, writing 

 under date of September 18, to the president 

 of the American Museum, describes a re- 

 cent journey made to Urga, in outer Mon- 

 golia, a picturesque town made up of about 

 2000 Russians and 3000 Chinese, with 35,000 

 llamas. The trip was made by way of the 

 many century old caravan trail across the 

 Gobi Desert — a region not a "desert," how- 

 ever, but a vast rolling Siberian prairie. 

 About 2000 antelopes were seen of three 

 species, and Mr. Andrews states that indi- 

 viduals racing parallel with the automobile 

 and passing it must, at a conservative esti- 

 mate, have reached a speed of sixty miles an 

 hour. 



The scientific results of the American 

 Museum Congo Expedition are now being 

 published in separate volumes of the Bul- 

 letin. A revision of the Vespidse of the 

 Belgian Congo by Mr. J. Bequaert has ap- 

 peared as Article I of Volume XXXIX. This 

 volume will also include a paper by Mr. 

 Karl P. Schmidt on lizards, turtles, etc., and 

 one by Dr. J. A. Allen and Mr. Herbert 

 Lang on the insectivores. An extensive pa- 

 per on Congo Mollusca by Dr. H. A. Pilsbry, 

 of Philadelphia, is in press as the first ar- 

 ticle in Volume XL. 



Dt'rixg the last month ]\lr. Roy W. 

 Miner, of tlic American Museum, has eo- 



