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had })ccn learned that the Secretary of the Interior had in eonteni})hi- 

 tion a l)ill which, while meeting the needs of the Department, would 

 also be satisfactory to the Institution. The Institution had undertaken 

 to prepare for the Secretary of the Interior the requisite maps giving- 

 the location of antiquities on the public lands. It was of interest to 

 state that the Secretary of the Interior had already taken preliminary 

 steps in the matter, so far as his authoi-it}- extended, and had appointed 

 guardians for important ruins. 



EXPLOHATIONS. 



The Secretary said that since the last meeting of the Board two 

 expeditions had be.n sent out by the Institution; one under the direc- 

 tion of Mr. A. G. Maddren for the purpose of studying the remains 

 of the Alaskan mammoth and other large mammals reported as abun- 

 dant in the " Bone-yard'' and at Elephant Point; and a second under 

 the direction of Dr. W. H. Sherzer to stmW the glaciers of British 

 Columbia. Arrangements had also been made to send Dr. J. Walter 

 Fewkes to Vera Cruz, Mexico, for the purpose of studying the prac- 

 tically unexplored region in the eastern shore of that country, where 

 it is hoped to discover the relationship of the mound-building tribes 

 of our Mississippi Valle}' and the Pueblo peoples of the Rio (xrande 

 and Rio Colorado with the so-called civilized tribes of Mexico. The 

 district was also interesting because of the presence there of a branch 

 of the Maya race of Yucatan. 



The sending of these expeditions was a recurrence tc the old policy 

 of the Institution which paid for them from its own fund. In this 

 last case it was a joint work of the Bureau of American Ethnology 

 and the Institution. 



EXTENSION OF ETHNOLOGICAL AVOKK IN HAA7AII AND SAMOA. 



The Secretary explained that he had for several years, in connection 

 with the estimates, urged the extension of the researches of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology to Hawaii and Samoa. Congress had apparently 

 been unwilling up to the present time to authorize this. Tiiese 

 researches were practicall}- urgent, and the request had been renewed 

 this year, :uid lie hoped that its importance could be impressed upon 

 the members of the appropriations committees. No additional 

 appropriation was needed to a(!complish this, it being only necessary 

 to insert the proper phraseology in the appropriation bill. 



The Board then adjourned. 



