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mound excavations near that city. From Macon Mr. Stirling pro- 

 ceeded to Brunswick, Ga., to view some of the archeological sites on 

 the Sea Islands and to consult with National Park Service officials 

 regarding the establishment of archeological monuments in that area. 

 From Brunswick he went to Manatee, Fla., to examine some interest- 

 ing Calusa material discovered by Montague Tallant. Following 

 this, a brief trip was made to Cape Sable and the Florida Keys to 

 locate some of the southernmost examples of Calusa archeological 

 sites. On the return trip to Washington, he spent 2 days at Talla- 

 hassee, Fla., in consultation with Vernon Lamme, Florida State 

 Archeologist, and visited several interesting sites in the vicinity. 



Dr. John R. Swanton, ethnologist, devoted a considerable part of 

 the year to the amplification of his report on the Southeastern 

 Indians, material being added from Spanish, French, and English 

 sources. 



In November and the first week of December, Dr. Swanton, accom- 

 panied by F. M. Setzler, assistant curator of archeology in the 

 United States National Museum, visited Macon, Ga., as the guests of 

 Dr. and Mrs. Charles C. Harrold, stopping on the way at various 

 points in North Carolina to examine archeological collections and 

 sites connected with the expedition of De Soto. They remained in 

 Atlanta, at the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Beverly M. Du Bose, long 

 enough to view the famous Etowah mounds at Cartersville. Besides 

 visiting several sites in the immediate neighborhood of Macon, they 

 made a trip to Panama City, Fla., and with the helpful cooperation 

 of Judge Ira A. Hutchinson of that place viewed many of the sites 

 explored by Clarence B. Moore and obtained an excellent collection 

 of potsherds from one of the large shell heaps. On the return trip 

 to Washington productive attempts were made to identify sites 

 visited by De Soto in both North and South Carolina. Lectures 

 were delivered at Macon and also at Emory University, Atlanta, 

 before those interested in the local archeology. 



During the last week in December, Dr. Swanton took part in a 

 conference on the prehistory of the lower Mississippi Valley at 

 Baton Rouge, La., and on his way back spent some time visiting 

 Indian sites along Alabama River with James Y. Brame, Jr., of 

 Montgomery, Ala. 



Shortly before the end of the year Dr. Swanton took up again 

 his work on the Timucua linguistic material, which had been laid 

 aside for some time. Timucua is no longer spoken, and, with the 

 exception of two letters and some isolated words, all that is known 

 regarding it is contained in five early seventeenth-century religious 

 works published by the Franciscan friars Pare j a and Mo villa, with 

 a grammar by the former. 



