XXXVIII BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



against dull nature the manual side of man has again come 

 into prominence, and the pages of later history are em- 

 blazoned with the names of inventors and experimentalists 

 in whom the hand side and the brain side have attained 

 perfect union. To this class of men Gushing belonged ; 

 yet the application of his genius was peculiar, even unique, 

 in that his efforts were expended in interpreting inven- 

 tions by others rather than in making inventions of his 

 own. This ai)plication of his powers rendered him suc- 

 cessful beyond parallel in retracing the paths pursued by 

 jnimal men in their slow advance toward manual and 

 mechanical skill; and it was through this peculiar appli- 

 cation that Gushing' s richest contributions to the science 

 of man were made. 



By reason of his peculiar insight into primitive devices 

 and motives Gushing was a teacher of his colal)orers, 

 even of those whose years were more than his own. His 

 mind responded readily to the impact of new sights, new 

 thoughts, new knowledge; hence he was fertile in hypo- 

 thesis, fruitful in suggestion, an avant -courier in 

 research, a leader in interpretation. All his associates 

 profited by his originality and learned much of him. The 

 debt of American ethnology to Gushing is large. 



Elliott Goues 



On December 25, 1899, Dr Elliott Cones died suddenly. 

 While he was not an officer of the Bureau, he had fre- 

 quently cooperated with the Director and the collabora- 

 tors, especially during the earlier portion of the fiscal 

 year, when he was attached to a party engaged in work 

 in the pueblo region. An enthusiastic student of early 

 American history, he was brought in frequent touch with 

 ethnologists and ethnologic problems, thereby acquiring 

 extended and accurate knowledge of the aborigines; 

 hence his death was a serious loss to the science. 



Walter J. Hoffman 



Dr Walter J. Hoft'man, for many years an attache of 

 the Bureau, died November 8, 1899. He entered the 

 Bureau in its earlier years as an assistant to the late 



