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Dr. Michelson’s paper is to appear in amplified 
form as one of the ‘‘ Accompanying Papers’’ in 
an ‘‘Annual Report of the Bureau of American 
Ethnology.’’ 
The Status and Development of Canadian Arche- 
ology: Haruan I. SMITH. 
The archeological work of the Geological Survey 
since June 15, 1911, the date of Mr. Smith’s 
appointment as dominion archeologist, has been 
divided into two main groups—the activities for 
diffusing archeological knowledge by such means 
as museum exhibits, guide books and lectures, and 
those for increasing such knowledge by explora- 
tion, original research and systematization. 
The national collections have been classified ten- 
tatively into groups corresponding to the five 
ethnological culture areas. This grouping may be 
modified with the progress of research. The col- 
lection from the southern coast of British Columbia 
and the one from the southern interior of British 
Columbia are representative, and the collection 
from Ontario is large. The other provinces of the 
Bastern Woodlands, the Plains and the Arctic are 
hardly represented at all, and there are practically 
no data at hand concerning them. Popular guides 
have been prepared for the two western archeolog- 
ical areas, and work is progressing upon similar 
guides for the others. A series of lantern slides 
illustrating the archeology of Ontario has been 
made; general and topical labels for the collection 
are in the hands of the printer; duplicates of these 
will probably be furnished to the other museums 
throughout Canada, which with duplicate speci- 
mens, casts and photographs, when supplied to 
these museums, will make the archeological work 
truly national. 
An archeological survey of the dominion is being 
organized, a reconnaissance has been made of some 
of the village sites in Ontario, and a survey of 
Brantford Township has been completed by Mr. 
W. J. Wintemberg. A scheme for systematizing 
and digesting the scattered and incomplete arche- 
ological data at hand and to be received in the 
future has been inaugurated. The cooperation of 
railroad officials, the northwest mounted police, 
Indian agents and geological explorers has been 
secured. 
It is proposed to explore the less well known 
parts of Canada, beginning with intensive explora- 
tion at one site in each of the great cultural areas, 
in order that the results in the way of collections 
and monographs may be used as standards to 
which to refer for identification the results of 
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future exploration obtained in bordering areas 
where we may expect to find mixed or superim- 
posed cultural material. 
It is planned in the near future to make a 
reconnaissance of the Plains from which there is 
practically no material to-day available, to con- 
tinue scientific exploration into the northern in- 
terior of British Columbia, using the Grand Trunk 
Pacific as a base, and to do an intensive piece of 
excavation along the St. Lawrence. Next the shell- 
heaps of the Atlantic coast may be examined. 
The papers read of which the secretary was 
unable to obtain abstracts were: 
The Anthropology of the Pueblos: A. HRDLICKA. 
To appear as a bulletin of the Bureau of Amer- 
ican Ethnology. 
Notes on the Words and Music of the ‘‘ White 
Captive’’ Ballad: CHARLES PEABODY. 
A Comparative Sketch of the Menominee: ALAN- 
SON SKINNER. 
Quechua Folk-Music: W. C. FARABEE. 
The Analysis of Chippewa Music: FRANCES DENS- 
MORE. 
The Permanent Protection of the American In- 
dian: FRANKLIN W. HOoPER. 
Notes on the Chippewyan, Sarcee and Kiowa 
Apache: Puiny E. GODDARD. 
Amalgamation in Minneapolis: A. E. JENKS. 
Results of Field-work among the Hurons of Lor- 
ette (Quebec), Anderson (Ontario) and Wyan- 
dotte (Oklahoma): C. M. Barseau. To be 
printed in full in one of the annual reports of 
the Geological Survey of Canada. 
The following papers were read by title: 
William Carter, Bensontown Homer: PHILLIPS 
BARRY. 
An Early Cranium of Homo sapiens from a Cavern 
at Unterlesece, near Trieste: HARRIS H. WILDER. 
The Distribution of the Spear-thrower in South 
America: M. H. SAVILLE. 
Some Analogies between the Pottery of the South- 
west and that of the Predynastic Period im 
Egypt: A. V. KIDDER. 
Early History of the Yuchi Indians: JOHN R. 
SWANTON. 
The Relation of the Quickness of Learning to 
Retentweness: D. O. Lon. 
Cayuga Notes: GRacE E. TAFT. 
GEORGE GRANT MacCurDYy 
YALE UNIVERSITY 
