OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. XXV 
first white man known to have reached the ancient Indian altar 
on its summit. 
In 1879 the Hayden survey was discontinued, the Bureau 
of Ethnology was organized, and the U. 8. Geological Survey 
was established. Mr. Stevenson, in addition to his duties as 
the executive officer of the new survey, was detailed for research 
in connection with the Bureau of Ethnology. In the subse- 
quent years he devoted the winters—trom the incoming of the 
field parties to their outgoing in the spring—chiefly to business 
of the survey; his summers to his favorite researches. He ex- 
plored the cliff and cave dwellings of Arizona and New Mexico; 
he unearthed in the Canyon de Chelly two perfect skeletons 
of its prehistoric inhabitants; he investigated the religious 
mythology of the Zuni, and secured a complete collection of 
fetich-gods, never before allowed out of their possession; he 
studied the history and religions of the Navajo and the Tusayan, 
and made an invaluable collection of pottery, costumes, and 
ceremonial objects, which are now prominent in the U.S. Na- 
tional Museum. But in the high mesas which were the field 
of his explorations in 1885 he was attacked by the “mountain 
fever” in its worst form. It was his first serious illness, and 
his regular and temperate life saved him for the time. But a 
visit to the same region in 1887 brought on a second attack of 
this peculiar and distressing disease. He came home pros- 
trated, with symptoms of serious heart failure. 
He died at the Gilsey House, in New York city, on the 25th 
of July, 1888, and was buried in the cemetery of Rock Creek 
church, near Washington. 
ACCOMPANYING PAPHR. 
For the first time in the series of the Annual Reports of this 
Bureau a single paper is submitted to exhibit the character of 
the investigations undertaken and the facts collected by its 
officers, with the results of their studies upon such collections. 
But while the paper is single in form and in title, it includes, 
in its illustrations and the text relating to them, nearly all 
topics into which anthropology can properly be divided, and 
therefore shows more diversity than would often be contained 
