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Grand Canyon, from the last of April to the end of the fiscal 

 year. Mr.. Neil M. Judd, of the United States National 

 Musevim, was detailed for this work. He found remains of 

 prehistoric buildings plentiful along the route of Kanab, 

 Utah, southeastward, in the northern portion of the Kanab 

 forest, at House Rock Valley, and in North, South, and Sad- 

 dle Canyons. These remains .consist usually of one, two, and 

 three room structures constructed of unworked stone blocks. 

 In many instances the foundations of the walls were stones 

 placed on edge, their tops separating the masonry of the roof. 

 Clusters of circular rooms, measuring from 4 to 10 feet in 

 diameter, also occur. The floors of these rooms are generally 

 covered with burnt earth or ashes, mingled with clay that 

 bears impressions of willows and grass, as if parts of roofs 

 similar to those of prehistoric rooms observed along the 

 Colorado River in the San Juan drainage. 



Cliff houses also exist in the breaks l^ordering the Walhalla 

 Plateau, but these are as a rule small single rooms, appar- 

 ently cists for storage like those built by the people who 

 inhabited the single-room houses in the open, somewhat back 

 from the rim of the canyon. Many small artifacts were 

 found on the cliffs, but few fragments of pottery were 

 reported. 



Dr. Walter Hough was detailed from the National Museum 

 to begin a study of the ruins in the Tonto Basin, a country 

 of great archeological possibilities, situated between the 

 valleys of the Little Colorado and the Gila. The result of a 

 brief examination of the northern part of this region was 

 encouraging, showing the existence of large ruins in the open 

 as well as cliff houses of considerable size. Doctor Hough 

 also made an examination of several important collections 

 of artifacts, some of which are unique, and enumeration of 

 the ruins visited by him indicates a promising field for future 

 research, which it is the intention of the biu-eau to prosecute 

 in coming seasons. 



Mr. D. I. Bushnell, jr., continued the preparation of the 

 manuscript for the Handbook of Aboriginal Remains East 

 of the Mississippi. The introduction, containing much 



