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Employee Lecture Schedule 



February 9 — A trip around the Hall of Geology. 



February 16 — Dr. Matthew: "Pala3ontology in a Museum." 



March 2 — Mr. Granger: "Remarks on Vertebrate Palaeontology Field 

 Work," or a trip through one of the Vertebrate Palaeon- 

 tology halls. 



March 16 — Dr. Lutz: ''Entomology in a Museum." 



IN THE FIELD 



The Department of Anthropology has been kind enough to give us 

 the following report prepared by Mr. Nelson, who was in charge of the 

 recent field work in the Southwest. Mr. Hyde and friends of the Mu- 

 seum who financed the work in Grand Gulch, accompanied Mr. Nelson 

 during the Grand Gulch phase of the investigation. 



"The archipological reconnaissance investigations carried out in the 

 Southwest during the interval from September 19, 1920, to January 8, 

 1921, ranged over portions of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and 

 New Mexico, but were centered chiefly upon the Grand Gulch region of 

 Utah and the Mimbres Valley region of New Mexico. These two locali- 

 ties were represented in the Museum b}' valuable purchase collections, 

 both of which lacked complemental data; and the chief purpose of the 

 expedition was to supply this want. Explorations beyond the Grand 

 Gulch and Mimbres Valley limits were largely incidental, or simply parts 

 of a much needed general reconnaissance in progress for several years 

 with a view to determining all the ancient Pueblo centers as well as the 

 extreme limits to which Pueblo influence has carried. 



"The Grand Gulch phase of the investigation occupied approxi- 

 mately five weeks, two of which were spent in the great gorge itself. 

 Information was obtained here relative to the canyon as such; the 

 number, nature, and condition of its antiquities; the extent of former 

 excavations; and the prospects for future scientific work. In all, some 

 sixty to seventy miles of the canyon and its principal tributaries were 

 mapped and about 110 archirological sites definitely placed. These 



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