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pletion of these groups and to the construction of a model 

 of the Santa Barbara mission estabhshment, California, for 

 the exposition. On May 4 he proceeded to Seattle to assist 

 in setting up the exhibits, stopping en route to select a site 

 on the southern rim of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado 

 suitable for the erection of the monument to the late Maj. 

 J. W. Powell recently provided for by the Congress; at Los 

 Angeles, to examine the collections in the Southwestern 

 Museum; at Santa Barbara, to study the plan of the mission; 

 and at San Francisco, to visit the museum of the University 

 of California, ^\^^ile in Seattle visits were made to Tacoma, 

 Washington, and to Victoria, British Columbia, for the pur- 

 pose of examining collections of ethnological and archeological 

 material preserved in these places. The chief retui-ned to 

 Washington on June 11. 



During the year the chief made studies of a more or less 

 elaborate nature in the following museums: 



Blackmore Museum, Salisburj', England. 



University of La Plata Museum, Argentine Republic. 



Faculty of Philosophy and Letters Museum, Buenos 

 Aires, Argentine Republic. 



National Museum, Buenos Au-es. 



National Museum, Santiago, Chile. 



National Museum, La Paz, Bolivia. 



National Museum, Lima, Peru. 



California Uni\'ersity Museum, San Francisco. 



Southwestern ^Museum, Los Angeles. 



Feny Museum (Tozier collection), Tacoma, Wash- 

 ington. 



University of Washington Museum, Seattle, Wash- 

 ington. 



Provincial Museum, Victoria, British Columl:)ia. 



Field Museum of Natm-al History, Chicago. 



Aeademj'' of Sciences Museum, Philadelphia. 

 Early in the year the Biu'eau was urged by the officers of 

 the Mississippi Valley Historical Association to contribute 

 data relating to the historj^ of the Indian tribes of the region 

 for the meeting of the association convened in St. Louis 

 June 15, 1909. The chief contributed a paper entitled 



