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has begun the Caddoan tribes of eastern Texas, with the 
design of treating them separately. In this work Professor 
Bolton has made commendable progress. He has already 
- written a detailed description, consisting of about 40,000 
words, of the location, social and political organization, 
economic life, religion, and ceremonial of the Hasinai, com- 
monly designated “Texas,”’ as known and described by the 
earliest European chronicles, accompanied with a map. 
The task of writing a history of the Texas tribes is a great 
one, and can be performed only by long and painstaking 
effort, but its successful accomplishment promises an impor- 
tant addition to our knowledge of the native Americans. 
PRESERVATION OF ANTIQUITIES 
With the object of assisting the departments of the Govern- 
ment having custody of the public domain in the initiation of 
measures for the preservation of the antiquities of the 
country, the compilation of a descriptive catalogue of anti- 
quities has been continued, and the preparation of bulletins 
having the same end in view has also received every possible 
attention. Bulletin 32, Antiquities of the Jemez Plateau, by 
Edgar L. Hewett, was published and distributed during the 
year, and Bulletin 35, Antiquities of the Upper Gila and Salt 
River Valleys in Arizona and New Mexico, by Dr. Waiter 
Hough, was in page form at the close of the year, while bul- 
letins by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, on the Antiquities of the 
Little Colorado Valley, and Edgar L. Hewett, on the Anti- 
quities of the Mesa Verde, Colorado, were in course of prep- 
aration. 
The sum of $3,000, appropriated by Congress for the 
excavation, repair, and preservation of Casa Grande Ruin, 
in Arizona, was disbursed by the Smithsonian Institution, 
Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 
having charge of the work. A brief preliminary report on 
the first year’s operations will appear in the Quarterly Issue 
of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. A second. 
appropriation of $3,000 is provided for continuing the work 
during the coming year. 
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