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diameter of ninety feet, being composed 

 almost entirely of dark sand. The second 

 period is represented by the enlargement 

 of the mound upon all sides. However, 

 on the south side the mound was only cov- 

 ered with a few feet of soil, while on the 

 north side the base was extended more 

 than fifty feet, changing the apex be- 

 tween twelve and fifteen feet. The 

 .mode of burial in the first period was far 

 "different from that in the second. In the 

 original mound no burials were foiuid until 

 ~within five feet of the base line, and all of 

 the bodies were enveloped in bark or a 

 coarse woven fabric and then enclosed in a 

 rude sepulcher made of timbers, while in 

 the second period the bodies were simply 

 covered with soil ; not even a trace of bark 

 was found with the skeletons. However, 

 the implements and ornaments of the first 

 period were similar to those of the second 

 period. 



WEDNESDAY, JULY 2. 



Meeting with the American Folk-Lore 

 Society. 



Cooperation Between the Anthropological 

 Museum and the Public School: Freder- 

 ick Houghton. 



This paper touched on the importance of 

 the place occupied on the school curricula 

 by the natural sciences; the requirements 

 and difficulties of teachers, in teaching the 

 sciences in elementary schools; and the de- 

 sirability from the teacher's viewpoint of 

 help, in her work, from the science museum, 

 in the form of lectures for teachers and 

 pupils and of exhibits for the use of 

 schools. 



From a museum point of view, it spoke of 

 the desirability of enlarging the useful- 

 ness of the museum, in the great field open 

 to it in cooperating, in the work of educa- 

 tion, with the public-school system. 



The body of the paper was devoted to an 

 outline of work possible for a museum to 



do in connection with the school. This was 

 commented upon, both from the viewpoint 

 of the teacher and from that of the museum, 

 and experiments made by the Buffalo Socie- 

 ty of Natural Sciences along the lines laid 

 down in the outline were described at some 

 length as being illustrative of the work out- 

 lined. 



This paper was favorably discussed by 

 W J McGee and is to be published in full 

 in the Journal of Education. 



Uses of Archeological Museums in Educa- 

 tion in the Public Schools: Lee H. Smith. 

 This paper was read by title. 



Explorations of 1901 in Arizona: Walter 



Hough. 



This paper gave an account of one of the 

 most important explorations carried on for 

 the National Museum in the pueblo region 

 during five mouths of 1901, describing 

 ruins on the Apache Reserve, the White 

 Mountain plateau, the petrified forest, 

 southwest of Holbrook, north of Hol- 

 brook and on the Hopi Reserve. The 

 field selected for examination lies in east- 

 ern Arizona and extends from Fort Apache 

 to the Hopi Reserve, a distance of 180 

 miles and east, and west of Holbrook, a dis- 

 tance of about 60 miles. 



During the month of May Dr. Hough 

 explored the ruins of McDonald's Canyon 

 and at the petrified forest, securing about 

 1,000 specimens. On the first of June he 

 took charge of the scientific work of the 

 Museiun-Gates Expedition which was fi- 

 nanced by Mr. P. G. Gates, a man of wealth 

 interested in pueblo archeology. 



Dr. Hough said that in the course of the 

 season's work of five months in 1901, sixty 

 ruins were visited and eighteen of them 

 excavated. Some idea of the difficulties 

 encountered, aside from the 800 miles of 

 wagon travel, may be gathered when it is 

 known that five of the groups required dry 

 camps, water being hauled considerable dis- 



