XXIV ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 
Mr. Lucien M. Turner was for two years stationed at the 
Hudson Bay Company’s post, Fort Chimo, near the northern 
end of the peninsula of Labrador, as a civilian observer in the 
employ of the Signal Service, U.S. Army. He was appointed 
to that position at the request of the late Prof. Baird, Secretary 
of the Smithsonian Institution, in order that his skill might be 
made ayailable in a complete investigation of the ethnology 
and natural history of the region. Mz. Turner left Washing- 
ton in June, 1882, and returned in the autumn of 1884. Dur- 
ing the last year he was engaged in the preparation of a report 
which will appear in one of the forthcoming annual reports of 
the Bureau. 
NECROLOGY. 
MR. JAMES STEVENSON. 
The officers of the Bureau of Ethnology and all persons in- 
terested in researches concerning the North American Indians 
were this year called to lament the death of Mr. James 
Stevenson, who had made regular and valuable contributions 
to the publications and collections of the Bureau. 
Mr. Stevenson was born in Maysville, Kentucky, on the 24th 
of December, 1840. When but a boy of 16 he became associated 
with Prof. F. V. Hayden, and accompanied him upon expedi- 
tions into the regions of the upper Missouri and Yellowstone 
rivers. Although the main objects of these expeditions were 
geological, his tastes led him chiefly to the observation of the 
customs and dialects of the Indians, and the facilities for such 
study afforded him by the winters spent among the Blackfoot 
and Dakota Indians excited and confirmed the anthropologic 
zeal which absorbed the greater part of his life. 
After military service during the civil war he resumed, in 
1866, the studies which had been interrupted by it, and accom- 
panied Prof. Hayden to the Bad Lands of Dakota. From this 
expedition and the action of the Congress of the United State. 
in 1866—67, sprang the Hayden survey, and during its exist- 
ence Mr. Stevenson was its executive officer. In one of the 
explorations from 1868 to 1878, which are too many to be 
here enumerated, he climbed the Great Teton, and was the 
