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Accept then, this book, not as measure of our 

 indebtedness for what you have already accom- 

 plished, but as a token of our affection, our ap- 

 preciation and high esteem. 



Among the many interesting and instructive 

 articles are thirteen written by members of 

 the staff of the Smithsonian Institution and 

 its branches. " The Cliff Euins in Fewkes 

 Canyon, Mesa Verde National Park, Colo- 

 rado," is the subject of a report by Dr. Jesse 

 Walter Fewkes of the . Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, on his recent excavation and re- 

 pair of Oak-tree House, Painted House and 

 other prehistoric ruins in the canyon. " Music 

 in its Relation to the Religious Thought of 

 the Teton Sioux," is the title of an article by 

 Miss Prances Densmore. Other- articles per- 

 taining to the work of the Bureau of Ethnol- 

 ogy are by Mr. P. W. Hodge, Miss Alice C. 

 Fletcher, J. N. B. Hewitt, John Peabody 

 Harrington, Francis LaFlesche, Truman 

 Michelson and John R. Swanton. 



Dr. I. M. Casanowicz, assistant curator of 

 old-world archeology of the National Museum, 

 writes on " Parallels in the Cosmogonies of 

 the Old World and the New." Three other 

 members of the museum staff contributed ar- 

 ticles as follows : Dr. Walter Hough, " Experi- 

 mental Work in American Anthropology and 

 Ethnology," in which he speaks of the work, 

 methods and influence of Mr. Holmes among 

 American scientists; Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, 

 " Anthropology of the Chippewa," wherein he 

 reports on his studies of the White Earth 

 Chippewa in an endeavor to establish their 

 identity as full or mixed bloods; and Neil M. 

 Judd, " The Use of Adobe in Prehistoric 

 Dwellings of the Southwest." 



Contributions from other eminent anthro- 

 pologists include discussions on " The Cult of 

 the Ax," by George Grant MacCurdy ; " The 

 Supplementary Series in Maya Inscriptions," 

 by Sylvanus G. Morley ; " The Domain of the 

 Aztecs and Their Relation to the Prehistoric 

 Cultures of Mexico," by Alfred M. Tozzer; 

 " Cardan's Suspension in China," by Berthold 

 Laufer, and articles by Gerald Fowke, Edgar 

 L. Hewett, George G. Heye, Charles Peabody, 

 Charles C. Willoughby, A. V. Kidder, S. A. 

 Barrett, Franz Boas, Theodoor de Booy, 



David I. Bushnell, Jr., William Churchill, 

 Roland B. Dixon, William Curtis Farabee, 

 P. E. Goddard, George Byron Gordon, Albert 

 Ernest Jenks, A. L. Kroeber, Robert H. 

 Lowie, Charles W. Mead, William C. Mills, 

 Warren E. Moorehead, Nels C. Nelson, George 

 H. Pepper, Marshall H. Saville, Frank G. 

 Speck, Herbert J. Spinden and Clark 

 Wissler. 



The volume closes with a bibliography of 

 Mr. Holmes comprising 184 titles, which was 

 compiled by the librarian of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology. 



DEDICATION OF A TABLET IN HONOR OF 

 PROFESSOR VOLNEY M. SPALDING 



Several years ago at a meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence at Baltimore, a number of former stu- 

 dents of Professor Volney M. Spalding got to- 

 gether and proposed that a fund be collected 

 for the purchase of a memorial to their teacher. 

 They selected a committee composed of Dr. 

 Erwin P. Smith, of the Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry, Professor L. R. Jones, of Wisconsin 

 University, and Professor F. C. Newcombe, of 

 Michigan University, to select and secure the 

 memorial. 



The committee decided a bronze tablet the 

 most suitable object for the purpose, and ad- 

 dressed a circular letter to Professor Spal- 

 ding's former students, asking that the contri- 

 bution from each be small so as to allow many 

 to participate. Over one hundred sent in con- 

 tributions, and the tablet was designed and 

 cast. The authorities at Ann Arbor decided 

 that the tablet should be erected in the pro- 

 posed new botanical building. With the com- 

 pletion of the natural science building last 

 year, the tablet was placed on the wall in the 

 main corridor of the botanical section of the 

 building, and dedicatory exercises held. Presi- 

 dent Hutchins presided, addresses were made 

 by Professors J. E. Reighard and E. 0. God- 

 dard, Professor F. C. Newcombe presented the 

 tablet in behalf of the former students of Pro- 

 fessor Spalding, and Regent Beal accepted the 

 tablet in behalf of the university. The inscrip- 

 tion reads : 



