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all parts of tlie State and .adjacent regions for aid in this survey. 

 Hundreds of Indian objects are found annually, which if carefully 

 labeled as to where and how found and sent to the University, would, 

 when brought together for comparative study, aid in the settlement of 

 many important questions. The distribution of a particular kind of 

 stone implement or of an ancient form of basket, and of many other 

 objects of Indian manufacture (even the peculiar stone of which an 

 implement is made is of great importance), will aid in determining the 

 distribution of a tribe or group of which other records may be lost or 

 so uncertain that just such confirmatory evidence to establish a partic- 

 ular point is required. 



Information relating to the location of caves, shellheaps, old 

 burial places, ancient village sites, and scattered fragments or survivors 

 of nearly extinct tribes, is earnestly solicited, that such may be inves- 

 tigated by the department and may be correctly recorded on its ethno- 

 logical and archaeological maps of the State. 



The University is by this survey carrying on a research of great 

 importance in obtaining a knowledge of the first peopling of the Pacific 

 Coast and of the early migrations, and of the relationships of the recent 

 and present Indians, a research that is required by anthropologists and 

 by all interested in the early history of man. This work has been well 

 begun, but assistance of many kinds is needed for its rapid progress. 

 This assistance, it is hoped, will be given to aid the University of the 

 State in an undertaking of such general interest. 



Two volumes of the publications of the department, relating 

 to the languages, myths and customs of certain tribes of California, 

 are now in press and are to be followed by others as the material is 

 prepared. 



Correspondence leading to aid in this survey is solicited by the De- 

 partment of Anthropology of the University of California. 



BENJ. IDE WHEELEE, 



President of the University. 

 F. W. PUTNAM, 



Director of the Department of Anthropology. 



Berkeley, California, October 15, 1903. 



