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is a constantly growing demand for the publication of our manu- 

 scripts and for information concerning the facts of New York 

 archeology and ethnology. 



Facts are constantly required by artists, students, historians, pro- 

 ducers of plays, pageants and historical exercises. There is also an 

 increasing demand for suitable Indian names for geographical local- 

 ities, for estates, camps, boats, clubs, and commercial concerns. 

 The Archeologist suggested most of the names, for example, for the 

 various mineral springs at Saratoga. Suggestions and plans for 

 out-of-door pageants were given to several organizations, including 

 the Lake Placid Club, the Agricultural College at Cornell, and the 

 American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society ; the Boy 

 Scouts, Camp Fire Girls and similar clubs have been furnished with 

 names, symbols and practical suggestions bearing on Indian life. 

 Our activity during the year has covered a wide range of subjects 

 of the present-day interest. 



We are assured that our Iroquois Indians themselves look to 

 the Museum and its Indian division as the chief means for the 

 preservation of their history and records. In connection with the 

 Indian of today we have therefore sought to represent them and 

 their interests in various organizations and conferences, a duty that 

 the Universal Law would seem amply to justify. 



