ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XI 
For the better understanding of the work of the year 
and the conditions affecting the present affairs of the 
Bureau, circumstantial data dealing with history, sta- 
tistics, and routine have been introduced into this report. 
RESEARCH WORK 
The Chief prosecuted archeological researches at a 
number of points in the eastern part of the United States. 
Previous to October 18 he was engaged, with the assis- 
tance of Mr Gerard Fowke, in making examinations of 
the fossil bone beds at Kimmswick, Mo., with the view 
of determining whether there was satisfactory evidence 
that man was contemporaneous with the mammoth and 
the mastodon in that region; but no traces of man were 
found in direct association with the fossil remains. 
Examinations of aboriginal flint quarries and sites of 
stone-implement manufacture were made in southern 
Indiana and in eastern Kentucky. In October explora- 
tions were undertaken at Lansing, Kans., with the view 
of determining the age of the human remains found 
embedded in loess-like formations near that place. The 
formations were extensively trenched by Mr Fowke, 
under the direction of the Chief of the Bureau, and the 
conclusion was reached that the remains were of excep- 
tional antiquity for America, but could not with certainty 
be assigned to a definite geological horizon, and were 
probably of post-Glacial time. In April the Chief paid 
a visit to Leslie, Mo., for the purpose of studying certain 
traces of ancient operations reported to occur in an iron 
mine near that place. Very interesting phenomena were 
encountered, the ancient aborigines having penetrated 
the cre body in many directions and to surprising depths, 
the purpose being, apparently, to obtain the red and yel- 
low iron oxides for paint. Many hundreds of mining 
tools of stone were found in the ancient tunnels. Early 
in May a trip was made to Georgia and Alabama for the 
