108 Report of the President 



Anthropological Papers was issued reviewing in detail the work 

 of the Hyde Expedition to Chaco Canyon for the 

 d R h ex pl° ra ti° n of the ancient ruin known as Bonito. 



This undertaking was liberally supported by 

 Messrs. B. Talbot B. Hyde and Frederick E. Hyde, Jr., and the 

 completion of this volume was greatly facilitated by the personal 

 attention of the former to the details of publication. In the 

 laboratories of the Department, the compilation of field- 

 measurements and other somatological data is progressing at the 

 hands of Mrs. Beardsley Ruml. In collaboration with James 

 R. Murie, chief of the Skidi Pawnee, the Curator completed an 

 intensive study of Pawnee ritualism. At the same time, Miss 

 Helen H. Roberts began the transcription and comparative 

 study of the musical parts of these rituals, an investigation which 

 promises to reveal several new leads in the investigation oi 

 primitive music. Finally, our anatomical and other special col- 

 lections have been used with increasing frequency by special 

 investigators residing in the city, thus indicating that we are 

 becoming an important center of anthropological research. 



