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Laguna, Acoma, Isleta, Jemes, San Domingo, San Juan and Taos; 

 and the Apache reservations at White River, San Carlos, Mesca- 

 lero ; also the Jicarillas and southern Utes. He was so successful 

 as to obtain the measurements of over nine hundred Indians of 

 the various tribes and groups visited ; also many physical examina- 

 tions, eighty facial moulds, and over five hundred negatives of the 

 people and their occupations. He also secured the materials for 

 several ethnic groups, and fifty skulls and skeletons with various 

 objects found in ancient graves. 



It now remains to make similar researches on the more western 

 tribes and those of portions of Mexico, in order to complete the plan 

 of comparative study of the south and west. In connection with 

 this work, the Messrs. Hyde have formed in the department a special 

 reference library of works relating to the southwestern portion of 

 America. They have bought a number of paintings by distinguished 

 artists, and have had hundreds of photographs printed from the 

 negatives taken by the several expeditions. They have also had 

 several hundred lantern-slides made for use in lectures illustrating 

 the particular subjects of their work. This great interest on their 

 part, and their generous contributions to the Museum, cannot be 

 too highly commended. During the summer vacation the Curator 

 was able to visit New Mexico in connection with the work of this 

 expedition, and to make a comparative study of a large number of 

 ruins on the mesas and in the canons in relation to their contem- 

 poraneity and their greater or less antiquity. In addition to the 

 results obtained by their expeditions, the Messrs. Hyde have been 

 able to purchase several important collections, made several years 

 ago at the cliff houses and from caves, which are of great value 

 for comparative study, and could not now be obtained from these 

 sites. 



South American Expedition . — The most important receipts from 

 Mr. Bandelier's researches during the year are from his explora- 

 tions of ancient tombs in the vicinity of Lake Titicaca. Included 

 in this lot are many trephined skulls, also various specimens of 

 pottery and other objects from tombs and village sites. Our col- 

 lection, showing the different forms of trephining by the prehistoric 

 peoples of Peru and Bolivia, is made one of great importance by 



