24 Report of the President 



America was continued in three expeditions. On its col- 

 lection of Cretaceous dinosaurs, which forms one division of the 

 .. whole plan, the Museum has now devoted eight 



_. years, and the work of the party under Barnum 



Dinosaurs ' . _ ■■ _ r ^ ■; r A „ 



Brown, along the Red Deer River of Alberta, 



Canada, was rewarded by the discovery of several fine types 

 of dinosaurs which nearly brings this great project to comple- 

 tion. This work will be continued one year more, with the 

 approval of the Canadian Government. 



The great mammal quarry of Lower Miocene age in west 

 ern Nebraska was explored for the third season by Albert 

 Thomson, with the courteous aid of the owner, James H. Cook, 

 and materials have been secured for a life group of the period. 

 Important discoveries were also made in New Mexico and 

 in Wyoming, of new forms representing the dawn of mam- 

 malian life on the continent, under the leadership of Walter 

 Granger and William Stein. 



The Museum is bringing to a close its series of researches, 



beginning in 1902, on the cultures and ceremonials of the 



_ . ,. Indians of the Northern Plains which has 



Ethnology of 



_, . _ ,. been carried on during the last twelve 



Plains Indians _ • , A , 



years by the Department of Anthropology, 



with explorations in the field by Curator Wissler, Associate 

 Curator Lowie and Assistant Curator Skinner. This material 

 has been published in fourteen issues of the series of Anthro- 

 pological Papers, aggregating 1,840 pages. These and the 

 volumes in preparation will mark the completion of a very 

 important work projected by Curator Wissler on assuming- 

 charge of the department. 



The study of the primitive peoples of the Southwest, their 

 ethnology and archaeology, with the support of Archer M. 



... Huntington, is now in its fifth year. 



. , _ - Especial exploration has been carried on 



of the Southwest . \ . ,, • j ™ 



in Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico by 



Doctors Goddard, Spinden and Nelson, and the collections 

 and photographs secured by these expeditions are being used 

 to enrich the Southwest Indian Hall, also in the preparation 

 by Messrs. McCormick and Young of the first Indian life 

 group,, namely, of the Hopi. 



