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ervation, where hitherto unknown ruins in Hill Canyon, 
near Ouray, were examined and where a number of stone 
towers similar to those along San Juan River were found. 
These ruins, to which Dr. Fewkes’s attention was called by 
Mr. Kneale, agent for the Uncompahgre Ute, are especially 
striking owing to their unusual situation on eroded rocks of 
mushroom shape. These towers mark the northernmost 
limit of Pueblo culture in eastern Utah, and some of them 
are especially instructive by reason of their relation to pre- 
historic towers much farther south. An illustrated report 
on these remains, by Dr. Fewkes, has already appeared.” 
Mr. James Mooney, ethnologist, was engaged in field work 
among the Eastern Cherokee of western North Carolina at 
the opening of the fiscal year, and on his return to Washing- 
ton, August 10, resumed the translation and annotation of 
the Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee, as well as the identifi- 
cation of the plants, etc., used by the tribe in its medicine 
and other rites. Mr. Mooney reports this work to be well 
advanced, but its complicated nature, coupled with the 
author’s ill health during the year, has made progress some- 
what slow. Mr. Mooney also spent considerable time in 
supplying information on technical subjects for official 
correspondence. 
Dr. John R. Swanton, duuinoloniet was occupied chiefly 
with two lines of investigation—the one historical, the other 
philological. In July and August he made a thorough ex- 
amination of the Woodbury Lowery and Brooks collections 
of manuscripts in the Library of Congress bearing on the 
early Spanish history of Florida, finding many important 
items for incorporation in his “ History of the Southeastern 
Tribes.” In September Dr. Swanton visited the Newberry 
Library in Chicago, where other valuable early documents 
were found in the Edward E. Ayer collection, which sub- 
sequently were copied for the bureau’s use by the courtesy 
of the librarian. These latter manuscripts include a report 
on the Indians of Louisiana by Bienville, a Louisiana mem- 
oir with an extended description of the Choctaw, and a 
2 “Archeological Investigations in New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah,’’ Smithsonian 
Misc. Coll., vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 1-38, May, 1917. 
