556 General Notes. 
Tue Hemenway EXPEDITION IN Arizona. — Dr. Jacob 
L. Wortman, of the United States Army Medical Museum, 
has just returned from Arizona, where he has spent the 
List, and he confirms the importance as well as the genuineness of 
the discoveries of Mr. Cushing. The expedition is thoroughly 
equipped and well organized, and its investigations have been con- 
ducted in a vigorous and scientific manner, with special reference 
to the many details which go to make collections of this character 
of value to the scientific student. Not only have the ruins been 
carefully surveyed and mapped, but each specimen has been labelled 
with great care, in such a manner as to indicate exactly where 
found, together with all such other facts in connection with it as 
will be of use to the student. 
The expedition has for its object the study of the ancient civili- 
zation of the southwest, and if the results of the first year’s work 
ean be taken as an index of what it will accomplish, we may confi- 
dently look for a solution of this perplexing question. Already a 
large and valuable collection illustrative of the culture of these 
prehistoric people has been secured, and it is a matter of congratu- 
lation that it has been so collected that the scientific student can get 
all out of it that it can be made to tell. : 
Mr. Cushing’s ethnological training has been in such a direction 
as to give him a peculiar fitness for the position which he occupies, 
having spent six years or more in studying the social institutions, 
customs, habits, religion and language of the modern Pueblo Indi- 
ans, and this thorough knowledge of these is indispensable to the 
proper interpretation of the facts gathered by the expedition. The 
anthropological work is in charge of Dr. Herman Ten Kate, a native 
of Holland, son of the distinguished artist of that name. Dr. J. 
L. Wortman, the Anatomist of the Army Medical Museum of 
' Washington, is his assistant. Mr. Adolph Bandelier, whose know- 
ledge of the early Spanish and Mexican records is well known, 1S 
connected with the expedition as historian. Mr. Chas. A. Garlick 
is the civil engineer and topographer. Mr. Fred. Hodge is the 
draftsman and secretary, while Mr. Yates is the photographer. 
Mrs. Cushing and her sister, Miss Margaret Magill, are also mem- 
bers of the party, and have rendered important aid in the classifi- 
cation and care of the specimens. Miss Magill’s artistic talents 
have been of special service to the expedition by reason of her 
clever sketches and drawings of the specimens in situ. . 
The locality in which explorations have so far been conducted 
comprises the Gila and Salt River Valleys, situated for the most 
part. in southwestern Arizona. They are fertile tracts of larg 
extent, and there can be little doubt that they were once E 
by a thrifty and prosperous people, whose history remains unwri” 
ten. The Rio Salado (Salt River) is the principal tributary of te e 
