26 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. jd 



National Park Service. — Excavation and repair of the prehistoric 

 ruins on the Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. 



University of Texas. — Study and excavation of antiquities in 

 Texas. 



Davenport Academy of Sciences. — Excavating prehistoric mounds 

 near Fairport, Iowa, and making ethnological collections among the 

 Fox Indians for that institution. 



American Museum of Natural History. — Conducting ethnological 

 researches among the Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska. 



Columbia University. — Collecting material from the west coast of 

 North America, and publication of results. 



Museum, of the American Indian (Heye Foundation). — Study of 

 West Indian collection at that museum and field work in the Antilles. 

 Work at Hawikuh and Nacoochee. 



Illinois State Historical Society. — Investigating the Peoria-Miami 

 Indians. 



School of American Research, Santa Fe, N. AI.\ — Studies in eth- 

 nogeography, ethnozoology, and ethnobotany. 



Department of Justice. — Detail of a member of the stafif to trans- 

 late Spanish documents bearing on Indian land claims at the Tejon 

 Ranch, California. 



Agricultural Department. — Identification of plants to which cer- 

 tain Indian names are given. 



Board of Geographic Names. — Services of chief as a member of 

 this Board in collaboration with many other departments of the 

 Government. 



Studies of the Haida Indians of British Columbia and Alaska. — 

 An expedition to study the Haida Indians, financed jointly by the 

 Jesup North Pacific Expedition and the Bureau. 



It is felt that the above work stimulates public interest in the 

 various industries of the American aborigines, and by the preservation 

 of the ruins of their former habitations, gives impetus to the move- 

 ment called " See America First." The Bureau is frequently called 

 upon by business companies for translation of Indian names, and for 

 pictures, etc., for commercial use. It also aids Camp Fire Girls, 

 Scouts, etc. 



The National Gallery of Art 



The National Gallery of Art is now in the third year of its exis- 

 tence as a separate unit of the Smithsonian Institution, and energies 

 of the limited stafif have been devoted mainly to the care, cataloguing, 



