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mains collected by the expedition will be presented by Dr. 

 Bruno Oetteking. Professor Boas will discuss the results of 

 the expedition showing the evidences of physical and cultural 

 relationship between the eastern coast of Asia and the western 

 coast of America. 



This series, projected under the direction of Dr. Frederic 

 Ward Putnam, will be one of the monuments of Presi- 

 dent Jesup's intelligence and liberality. The completion of 

 the Jesup series will be followed by the preparation of 

 a handbook on the Indian Life of the North Pacific Coast, 

 by Curator Pliny E. Goddard, in which the results achieved 

 will be condensed into more popular form. This work will de- 

 scribe the collections secured by the Jesup Expedition and the 

 collections made by Lieutenant Emmons among the Tlingit and 

 Tsimshian Indians that have placed our North Pacific Hall in 

 the leading rank of anthropological exhibits. 



The continued explorations in the Southwest with the 

 Archer M. Huntington Fund have taken the Museum into an 



entirely different field of research, the crowning 

 Jk* Aztec p Ur p 0se f which is to establish the chronology of 



the Southwest and the relations between the 

 Pueblo culture of Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and 

 that of the Aztecs and Mayas of Mexico. Completion of the 

 reports of the Hyde explorations on the Pueblo Bonito between 

 1895 and 1900 has been rendered possible through two years' 

 special labor of Mr. B. Talbot B. Hyde of this Museum, who 

 was the chief donor, and the active cooperation of Mr. George 

 H. Pepper of the Museum of the American Indian, who was 

 in charge of the excavations. The publication will be followed 

 by the volume on the great ruined pueblo of Aztec, where the 

 most interesting and important explorations have been con- 

 ducted for the past four years, with the aid of the Archer M. 

 Huntington Fund, by Mr. Earl H. Morris. Aztec gives more 

 information than we have ever had before, both of the racial 

 characters and of the culture and religious customs of this 

 vanished people. 



