OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. . XI 
The only assistants to Mr. Thomas whose engagements 
embraced the entire year were Mr. James D. Middleton and 
Mr. Henry L. Reynolds. Mr. Gerard Fowke, one of the as- 
sistants, ceased his connection with the Bureau at the end of 
the second month. Mr. John W. Emmert was engaged as a 
temporary assistant for a few months. 
WORK OF MR. GERARD FOWKE. 
During the short time in which he remained with the division, 
Mr. Fowke was engaged in exploring certain mounds in the 
Sciota valley, Ohio, a field to which Messrs. Squier and Davis 
had devoted much attention. Its reexamination was for the 
purpose of investigating certain typical mounds which had not 
been thoroughly examined by those explorers. 
WORK OF MR. J. D. MIDDLETON. 
Mr. Middleton was employed from July to the latter part of 
October in the exploration of mounds and other ancient works 
in Calhoun county, Illinois, a territory to which special inter- 
est attaches because it seems to be on the border line of differ- 
ent archeologic districts. From October until December he 
was engaged at Washington in preparing plats of Ohio earth- 
works. During the next month he made resurveys of some of 
the more important inclosures in Ohio, after which he resumed 
work in the office at Washington until the latter part of March, 
when he was sent to Tennessee to examine several mound 
groups and to determine, so far as possible, the exact locations 
of the old Cherokee ‘‘over-hill towns.” The result of the last- 
mentioned investigation was valuable, as it indicated that each 
of these ‘‘over-hill towns” was, with possibly one unimportant 
exception, in the locality of a mound group. 
WORK OF MR. H. L. REYNOLDS. 
Near the close of October Mr. Reynolds, having already ex- 
amined the inclosures of the northern, eastern, and western 
sections of the mound region, went to Ohio and West Virginia 
to study the different types found there, with reference to the 
