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papers, magazines, and other periodicals have done much to 
increase this interest and as may be said with regret many 
fake discoveries have been foisted on the public. Never be- 
fore have accurate accounts of Indian life like those published 
by the Bureau of American Ethnology been more in demand 
than at the present time. 
Several wealthy institutions have been led to give more 
money to American anthropology. Plans for archeological 
work in Yucatan and Central America costing many thou- 
sands of dollars a year are mentioned in some quarters, and 
many thousands are annually expended by another insti- 
tution on pueblo archeology. For lack of adequate funds, 
the bureau is unable to carry on extensive work of this mag- 
nitude and it remains for the bureau to continue its work 
along the lines already successfully followed: by researches 
and publication of the results of less ambitious plans. It 
can not be expected that the quantity of field work with this 
handicap can be as great as it was when the field was almost 
untilled, but the chief is striving to keep the quality up to the 
past. For years to come as the culture of our aborigines 
fades into the past there will be plenty of work to do in 
gathering survivals and publishing reports to meet increased 
demand for authoritative literature on our aborigines. 
As the work of the bureau calls for increased popularization 
in the judgment of the chief, the bureau should enlarge the 
number of popular articles which it publishes from time to 
time without decreasing strictly technical discoveries. The 
pages of our reports are full of the records of discoveries 
which are little known and at present interest only a few 
persons because of that fact. This should be obviated by 
putting into published form, suitable for the layman or for 
students in schools and colleges, the vast stores of knowledge 
which have been made by the staff of the bureau and its 
collaborators. The great success of the Handbook of 
American Indians clearly indicates the desire of the people 
for popular information on our aborigines and the bureau with 
an enlarged appropriation would be able to continue work of 
this nature. 
