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panied by Mr. Edmund Heller as naturalist ; the entire expense 

 of the expedition was borne by Mr. Rainey. 



Mr. Earl H. Morris, assisted by Mr. B. T. B. Hyde, contin- 

 ued the excavation of the Indian ruins at Aztec, New Mexico. 

 These ruins are yielding valuable collections and 



American historic data, which make this piece of research 



Archaeology . c _ 



work one of the most important that the Museum 



has ever undertaken in anthropology. These explorations are 



made possible through the contributions of Mr. Archer M. 



Huntington. 



Mr. Leslie Spier made archaeological explorations in Ari- 

 zona, visiting the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in the White 

 Mountains, and the Rio Verde Valley. He also visited the 

 Havasupai Indians for the purpose of making ethnological 

 studies and collections. 



Dr. Herbert J. Spinden returned in December from an ex- 

 pedition of eighteen months in Central America and the United 

 States of Colombia. His work was entirely successful, espe- 

 cially along the lines of decorative art, in which connection he 

 secured important archaeological and ethnological collections. 



During the summer, Mr. Roy W. Miner and other members 



of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology spent 



Zoology and several weeks at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 



Palaeontology making field studies for the Bryozoan Group for 



the Darwin Hall. 



Mr. Walter Granger completed the exploration of the Huer- 

 fano Basin, Colorado, and secured a very interesting fauna, 

 which links up the Lower Eocene and the Middle Eocene. 



Three months were spent by Mr. Albert Thomson in ex- 

 ploration of the Snake Creek deposits in western Nebraska, 

 where he obtained a considerable number of fossil mammals, 

 including skulls of a very large rhinoceros and a rare and 

 interesting rodent. 



It is an auspicious coincidence that the first volume of the 

 publications of the American Museum Congo Expedition ap- 

 pears at the time of the release of Belgium from the oppression 



