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and Central America so fully represented 

 as in the American Museum of Natural 

 History, where they fill an imposing hall. 

 The Duke of Loubat also sent the renowned 

 Americanist, Dr. Eduard Seler, to Mexico, 

 the results of his labors being divided be- 

 tween the American Museum of Natural 

 History and the Royal Ethnographical Mu- 

 seum of Berlin. 



During the year 1898 the Museum em- 

 ployed Dr. Carl Lumholtz and Dr. A. 

 Hrdlicka in an ethnological investigation 

 of the present tribes of the Sierra Madre 

 Range, in western Mexico. While there 

 Dr. Lumholtz continued his studies into the 

 customs and religious beliefs of the Huichol 

 Indians, which he had begun on a previous 

 expedition undertaken for the Museum. 

 Part of the results of his expedition have 

 been published by the Museum, and the 

 specimens which form the basis of this pub- 

 lication are now for the first time exhibited. 

 Dr. Hrdlicka studied the physical types of 

 these people, but the specimens collected by 

 him have not yet been arranged. 



Another inquiry, carried on by oflicers of 

 the Museum, has been directed towards an 

 exploration of the ruins of the Southwest. 

 This exploration has been undertaken at 

 the expense and under the active super- 

 vision of Messrs. B. T. B. and F. E. Hyde, 

 Jr., and has been carried on five years. 

 The material collected includes the arche- 

 ology as well as the physical anthropology 

 of this area. The extensive series of spe- 

 cimens collected in the Southwestern ruins 

 is at present being arranged, and will be 

 opened to the public in the near future. 



A thorough examination of the Trenton 

 gravels with a view to discovering the geo- 

 logical distribution of remains of the early 

 inhabitants of America has been continued 

 during all these years. The means for this 

 work have been provided by the Duke of 

 Loubat for one year and by Dr. F. E. Hyde 

 for the last three years. 



Attention has also been paid to problems 

 of local archeology, and a considerable 

 amount of work has been done in exploring 

 the Indian sites in the neighborhood of 

 New York City. 



Most important additions have been made 

 to the collections illustrating the cultures of 

 the people of the northern part of our conti- 

 nent. Most of these are due to the work of 

 the Jesup North Pacific Expedition — a great 

 undertaking, made possible by the munifi- 

 cence of Mr. Morris K. Jesup, President of 

 the Museum. The collections obtained by 

 this expedition up to the pi'esent time cover 

 the region of the State of Washington, the 

 coast of British Columbia, the interior of that 

 province, Arctic Alaska, and southeastern 

 Siberia, and large additional collections are 

 expected from the Arctic coast of eastern 

 Siberia. Some of the results of this expedi- 

 tion have been published in a large quarto 

 volume, while a second volume is under 

 way. The expedition promises to result in 

 a thorough and exhaustive examination of 

 both coasts of the North Pacific Ocean, and 

 will settle the vexed question of the re- 

 lations between the peoples of northeastern 

 Asia and northwestern America. 



The Museum has also been enabled to 

 undertake work in the difficult field oi 

 Californian ethnology. The means of this 

 work was provided by the late Mr. C. P. 

 Huntington. Up to the present time atten- 

 tion has been paid particularly to an inves- 

 tigation of the tribes of central California, 

 and valuable data regarding the distribu- 

 tion of human types and languages have 

 been obtained, as well as an exceedingly in- 

 teresting collection illustrating the culture 

 of this region. 



Farther to the north, work has been 

 taken up in Oregon, where a number of al- 

 most unknown tribes exist which are fast 

 disappearing. This work has been provided 

 for by the liberality of Mr. Henry Villard, 

 and has resulted in the acquisition of a 



