2 2 Report of the President. 



dant material for illustrating the essential features of the life 

 of the Chinese people. 



Explorations in New Jersey. — The exploration of the Dela- 

 ware Valley, provided for by Dr. F. E. Hyde, has been continued 

 by Mr. Ernest Volk, as in previous years, and many important 

 facts relating to the occupation of the region about Trenton 

 in 'very early times and bearing upon the evidence of pre- 

 Glacial man in America have been obtained. On account of 

 extensive excavations now being made by the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad Co., exceptional opportunities for the further in- 

 vestigation of the Trenton gravel deposits are offered, and the 

 Museum is to be congratulated upon the fact that Dr. Hyde 

 has provided for the continuation of the research through the 

 coming year. The vast amount of material obtained in the 

 Delaware valley by Mr. Volk, during his long-continued ex- 

 plorations for the Museum, has been unpacked and assorted 

 by him and arranged in trays according to the localities and 

 special excavations, but it has not been catalogued, on ac- 

 count of the importance of having the explorer himself attend 

 to the work. 



Local Explorations. — During the summer, the work in local 

 archseology was continued, and rock-shelters near Westchester 

 were explored from which much of importance relating to 

 early Indian life was learned. Most of the season was devoted 

 to the study of several village sites and shell heaps on Long 

 Island, especially to some near Oyster Bay and Glen Cove. 

 At the latter place the work was greatly facilitated by the 

 active cooperation of Mr. G. J. Price, on whose family estate 

 many of the researches were made. The opportunities for 

 investigations of this kind are rapidly disappearing, and every 

 effort should be put forth to secure all available material, in 

 order to give an accurate picture of the Indian life of the 

 coast at the time of the arrival of our own race. Additional 

 contributions are needed for this work. 



In the North hall the whole Emmons Alaskan collection 

 was re-arranged according to tribes and the material con- 



