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ing the best elements of every civilization — a race of superior capacity and 

 force, destined in its full fruition to surpass all others in the grandeur of its 

 achievements ; and that the activities of the present and of future Pan-Ameri- 

 can scientific congresses will contribute a worthy share in the accomplishment 

 of this grand result. 



At the closing session of the congress the chief was made a member of a com- 

 mittee of five to arrange for the next meeting of tlie congress, to be held in 

 Washington, D. C, in October, 1912. 



While in Santiago much attention was given to the national museum, which 

 contains a great deal of material illustrating the ethnology and archeology of 

 Chile, and a number of private collections, rich chietly in Peruvian antiquities, 

 were visited. 



The homeward trip from Santiago included excursions to Bolivia, where the 

 small national museum was visited and where studies were made of the ruined 

 city of Tiahuanaco ; to Peru, where a brief period was devoted to a study of 

 the rich collections of the national museum ; and to Panama for a short stay. 

 Washington was reached on February 11, and reports were then prepared for 

 the institutions which the chief represented as delegate and for publication in 

 scientific journals. 



The services of the chief were enlisted during the early months of the year 

 in the preparation of the Institution's exhibit to illustrate the history of the 

 Pacific Coast States and the Pacific islands at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposi- 

 tion at Seattle. Before leaving for South America in October he designed a 

 number of lay-figure family groups, which were elaborated by the sculptor 

 during the winter months; and on his return from the South he attended to the 

 completion of these groups and to the construction of a model of the Santa Bar- 

 bara mission establishment, California, for the exposition. On May 4 he pro- 

 ceeded to Seattle to assist in setting up the exhibits, stopping en route to select 

 a site on the southern rim of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado suitable for the 

 erection of the monument to the late Maj. J. W. Powell recently provided for by 

 the Congress ; at Los Angeles, to examine the collections in the Southwestern 

 Museum; at Santa Barbara, to study the plan of the mission; and at San 

 Francisco, to visit the museum of the University of California. While in 

 Seattle visits were made to Tacoma, Wash., and to Victoria, British Columbia, 

 for the purpose of examining collections of ethnological and archeological 

 material preserved in these places. The chief returned to Washington on 

 June 11. 



During the year the chief made studies of a more or less elaborate nature in 

 the following museums : 



Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England. 



University of La Plata Museum, Argentine Republic. 



Faculty of Philosophy and Letters Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentine 

 Republic. 



National Museum, Buenos Aires. 



National Museum, Santiago, Chile. 



National Museum, La Paz, Bolivia. 



National Museum, Lima, Peru. 



California University Museum, San Francisco. 



Southwestern Museum, Los Angeles. 



Ferry Museum (Tozier collection), Tacoma, Wash. 



University of Washington Museum, Seattle, Wash. 



Provincial Museum, Victoria, British Columbia. 



Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. 



Academy of Sciences Museum, Philadelphia. 



