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save number of visitors ; the museum teaches a lesson to 

 each visitor and exerts an influence which eludes analysis. 



ARCHAEOLOGY 



THE publications in this department of anthropology which 

 have emanated from the Smithsonian Institution are many 

 and comprehensive. As the large majority relate particularly 

 to the antiquities of North and Central America, they may 

 be considered under the following headings : 



1. Appalachian Mountains and Atlantic Slope. 



2. Rocky Mountains and Pacific Slope. 



3. Central Region. 



4. Mexico and Central America. 



5. West Indies. 



APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS AND ATLANTIC SLOPE 



THE prehistoric denizens of this region have received much 

 attention, and researches and publications on its archaeology 

 have been numerous and important. 



The evidences of paleolithic man in the valley of the 

 Potomac and the Trenton gravels have been critically exam- 

 ined and ably discussed by assistants in the Institution ; and 

 the works of Abbott, Rau, Holmes, and Wilson have attracted 

 wide attention among students of this subject. 



Professor Baird early recognized the great field for re- 

 search presented by the kitchen middens of the Atlantic 

 Coast, and personally carried on studies of these prehistoric 

 camping places on the coast of Maine. Doctor Rau dis- 

 cussed in 1872 a gold ornament from a Florida mound, and 

 six years earlier called attention to the artificial shell deposits 

 on the coast of New Jersey. 



