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  BUREAU 
  OF 
  AMERICAN 
  ETHNOLOGY 
  

  

  was 
  engaged 
  during 
  the 
  year 
  in 
  reading 
  the 
  proofs 
  of 
  that 
  

   work; 
  but 
  owing 
  to 
  his 
  absence 
  in 
  the 
  field 
  for 
  a 
  protracted 
  

   period 
  the 
  work 
  was 
  not 
  completed 
  at 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  the 
  year. 
  

  

  The 
  movement 
  for 
  the 
  enactment 
  by 
  Congress 
  of 
  a 
  law 
  

   for 
  the 
  preservation 
  of 
  American 
  antiquities, 
  which 
  was 
  inaug- 
  

   urated 
  during 
  previous 
  years, 
  was 
  continued 
  by 
  various 
  

   individuals 
  and 
  institutions 
  during 
  the 
  last 
  year, 
  and 
  the 
  

   perfected 
  measure 
  became 
  a 
  law 
  in 
  June. 
  With 
  the 
  view 
  of 
  

   assisting 
  the 
  departments 
  of 
  the 
  Government 
  having 
  charge 
  

   of 
  the 
  public 
  domain 
  in 
  the 
  initiation 
  of 
  practical 
  measures 
  

   for 
  the 
  preservation 
  of 
  the 
  antiquities 
  of 
  the 
  Southwest, 
  the 
  

   Bureau 
  has 
  actively 
  continued 
  the 
  compilation 
  of 
  a 
  card 
  

   catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  archeological 
  sites, 
  especially 
  the 
  ruined 
  

   pueblos 
  and 
  cliff-dwellings, 
  and 
  during 
  the 
  year 
  has 
  made 
  

   much 
  progress 
  in 
  the 
  preparation 
  of 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  bulletins 
  to 
  

   be 
  devoted 
  to 
  the 
  fuller 
  presentation 
  of 
  all 
  that 
  is 
  known 
  

   regarding 
  these 
  antiquities. 
  In 
  promoting 
  this 
  work 
  Mr. 
  

   E. 
  L. 
  Hewett 
  was 
  commissioned 
  to 
  proceed 
  to 
  New 
  Mexico 
  

   for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  making 
  a 
  survey 
  of 
  the 
  ancient 
  remains 
  

   of 
  the 
  Jemez 
  Plateau 
  region, 
  a 
  large 
  part 
  of 
  which 
  is 
  now 
  in- 
  

   cluded 
  in 
  the 
  Jemez 
  Forest 
  Reserve. 
  A 
  preliminary 
  report 
  

   on 
  this 
  work 
  was 
  submitted 
  immediately 
  on 
  Mr. 
  Hewett's 
  

   return 
  to 
  Washington, 
  and 
  later 
  a 
  paper 
  was 
  prepared 
  in 
  the 
  

   form 
  of 
  an 
  illustrated 
  descriptive 
  catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  antiqui- 
  

   ties, 
  to 
  be 
  published 
  as 
  Bulletin 
  32 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  series. 
  In 
  

   March 
  Mr. 
  Hewett 
  was 
  called 
  on 
  to 
  represent 
  the 
  Bureau 
  as 
  

   a 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  Interior 
  Department 
  Survey 
  of 
  certain 
  

   boundary 
  lines 
  in 
  southern 
  Colorado, 
  the 
  principal 
  object 
  

   being 
  to 
  determine 
  the 
  relation 
  of 
  the 
  more 
  important 
  ruins 
  

   of 
  the 
  Mesa 
  Verde 
  region 
  to 
  the 
  boundaries 
  of 
  the 
  proposed 
  

   Mesa 
  Verde 
  park, 
  a 
  measure 
  for 
  the 
  establishment 
  of 
  which- 
  

   was 
  pending 
  in 
  Congress. 
  Shortly 
  after 
  the 
  receipt 
  of 
  Mr. 
  

   Hewett's 
  report 
  this 
  measure 
  became 
  a 
  law. 
  A 
  leading- 
  

   object 
  kept 
  in 
  view 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Hewett 
  on 
  this 
  expedition 
  was 
  

   the 
  collection 
  of 
  data 
  for 
  the 
  compilation 
  of 
  a 
  bulletin 
  on 
  

   the 
  antiquities 
  of 
  the 
  Mesa 
  Verde 
  region, 
  for 
  the 
  Bureau's 
  

   bulletin 
  series. 
  

  

  In 
  February 
  Dr. 
  Ales 
  Hrdlicka, 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Museum, 
  

   was 
  commissioned 
  to 
  proceed 
  to 
  Osprey, 
  on 
  Sarasota 
  bay, 
  

  

  