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F. W. Hodge's report for the Cominittee 

 on Nomenclature of Indian Linguistic 

 Families North of Mexico. Mr. Hodge 

 also reported for the Committee on Book 

 Eeviews. The conditions in regard to book 

 reviews are improving. The present policy 

 is to ask the reviewer in advance of sending 

 the book; but reviews are not always fur- 

 nished promptly. It was suggested by 

 Professor Boas that a book be published by 

 title immediately giving the scope of the 

 work, a more extended review to follow 

 later if desirable. The report was adopted 

 and the committee continued. 



Mr. Edgar L. Hewett spoke for the Com- 

 mittee on the Preservation of American 

 Antiquities. He reviewed the new law, 

 which seems to have been not only highly 

 satisfactory but also administered to the 

 letter. No permits under the law have 

 been granted pending the adoption of uni- 

 form regulations, the making of which are 

 entrusted to a committee. The announce- 

 ment of regulations is expected soon. The 

 president has already created the PetriiSed 

 Forest National Park and also certain na- 

 tional monuments, such as Devil's Eock, 

 El Morro and Casa Montezuma. Mr. Hew- 

 ett reviewed the bill creating the Mesa 

 Verde National Park. The report was 

 adopted and the committee continued with 

 power to observe the operations of the law ; 

 to represent archeologists in the interpreta- 

 tion of the law ; to place before the proper 

 authorities information as to desirable sites 

 to be preserved; to facilitate applications 

 for permits to excavate, etc., and to act as 

 a joint committee with the committee from 

 the Archeological Institute of America. 



A resolution was passed to the effect that 

 no distinction should be made between for- 

 eign and domestic institutions relative to 

 permits for excavations. 



Monday's program opened with an ac- 

 count by Dr. A. L. Kroeber of 'Recent 



Eesults of Anthropologic Investigations by 

 the University of California. ' The depart- 

 ment of anthropology at the University of 

 California is only six years old and owes 

 much to the generosity of Mrs. Phebe 

 Hearst. Its object is threefold: (1) the 

 formation of collections, (2) publication 

 and (3) instruction. The department has 

 undertaken two surveys of California, one 

 being anthropological and ethnological and 

 the other archeological. In discussing the 

 latter reference was made to two papers 

 recently published by Professors F. W. 

 Putnam and J. C. Merriam in the Amer- 

 ican Anthropologist." Dr. Kroeber also 

 referred to the discovery of a Quaternary 

 cave in a new region and to the numerous 

 shell mounds on the Bay of San Francisco, 

 probably one hundred in all. Only a few 

 of these have been explored. In some in- 

 stances the lowest shell deposits are below 

 the level of the sea. 



The ethnological survey is to cover the 

 whole state. Among the special researches 

 may be mentioned Dr. Dixon's work on a 

 linguistic stock that is fast disappearing. 

 In studying the three distinct culture re- 

 gions special attention is given to environ- 

 mental differences. 



Additional evidence of anthropological 

 activity in California came in the form of 

 a paper by Miss Constance Goddard Du- 

 Bois on 'The Sandpainting among the 

 Luisenos and Diegueiios Mission Indians 

 of Southern California,' which is to he 

 published in bulletin form by the Uni- 

 versity of California. The sandpainting 

 forms an integral and important part of 

 some of the chief ceremonials of the re- 

 ligion of Chung-itch-nish, which religion 

 was first described by Boscana in 1825, and 

 has remained almost unknown since his day.. 

 It came to the mountain Indians of San 

 Diego County from the coast Indians, and 



'April-June, 1906, pp. 221-235. 



