ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 101 
automobile and the foundation of national parks has in- 
tensified the desire to “see America first.” Our parks and 
Indian reservations have been visited in the past few years 
by an ever increasing number of travelers. This has stimu- 
lated a demand on the part of the general public for accu- 
rate information on the history and customs of the Indians, 
which the bureau endeavors to supply. 
It can not be expected, when the office work has grown to 
such magnitude and the appropriations have remained practi- 
cally the same as they were before the war, that the quantity 
of research in the field can equal that of former years, but 
the chief has endeavored to have as many of the staff in 
the field as he can and to publish the reports of their work 
as rapidly as feasible. It is self-evident that the acquisition 
of knowledge regarding the Indians, even if not published, is 
a most valuable asset, notwithstanding the fact that it must 
be stored in the archives to await a more favorable time for 
publication. 
SYSTEMATIC RESEARCHES 
The first duty of the chief being administrative and his 
time for a large part of the year being occupied with routine 
matters, he does not have much opportunity for field work, 
but notwithstanding this fact scientific work of a limited 
nature has been done by him in the field. He has kept en 
rapport with the work of all archeological expeditions in the 
Southwest in order to be able to advise you in regard to your 
recommendations for archeological work on the public domain. 
The number of expeditions in the Southwest has tripled or 
quadrupled in the last decade. 
The field work engaged in by the chief during the past 
year was archeological in nature, in cooperation with Mr. 
E. M. Elliott and his associates, of St. Petersburg, Fla. 
There are few areas in the United States which promise more 
to the archeologist than southwestern Florida along the shore 
from Tampa Bay to Cape Sable. Perhaps no one has added 
more to our knowledge of this area than Mr. F. H. Cushing, a 
former ethnologist of the bureau. The problems of southern 
Florida demand more objective material than we have from 
