LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



• Smithsonian Institution, 



Bureau of American Ethnology, 



Washington, D. C, June 2, 1911. 

 Sir: Five years ago the Bureau published as Bulletin 33, under 

 the title "Skeletal Remains Suggestmg or Attributed to Early Man 

 in North America," the results of Doctor Hrdlicka's comprehensive 

 researches on that subject. I now have the honor to submit for 

 your consideration the manuscript of "Early Man in South America," 

 the work of the same author m collaboration with Prof. W. H. 

 Holmes, Mr. Bailey Willis, of the United States Geological Survey, 

 and Messrs. Fred. Eugene Wright and Clarence E. Fenner, of the 

 Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 and to suggest its publication, with your approval, as Bulletin 52 

 of the Bureau's series. 



Yours, very respectfully, 



F. W. Hodge, 

 Ethnologist in Charge. 

 Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 



Washington, D. C. 



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