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These experiments show that the relative efficiency of the different 
parts of the spectrum of a carbon arc Hght for the production of heHo- 
tropic curvatures in the animal Eudendrium and in the seedlings of the 
plant Avena is practically identical. 
1 Blaauw, Rec. des Trav. hotaniques Neerlandais, 5, 209 (1909). 
2Loeb and Ewald, Zenlralbl. f. Physiol., 27, 1165 (1914). 
ARCHAEOLOGY OF BARBADOS 
By J. Walter Fewkes 
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
Presented to the Academy, October 30. 1914 
Our knowledge of the extent, character, and relationship of the pre- 
historic population of Barbados is very indefinite. It is not known 
whether the island was inhabited when discovered by the Portuguese 
in 1505, but there is every reason to believe it was, for a few aborigines 
still remained when it was colonized by the English over a century later. 
The existence of a native population is shown by Lignon's map pub- 
hshed in 1657, thirty-one years after the EngKsh landed at Holetown, 
on which we find legends referring to Indian settlements. Several 
writers assert that while a limited number of Caribs were found by the 
first English colonists, these should be regarded as transient visitors 
from neighboring islands, rather than permanent occupants. 
Archaeological evidences of a considerable prehistoric population in 
Barbados before the advent of Europeans are somewhat more definite 
than historical. These have already been presented by Greville T. 
Chester, and other archaeologists who have described many shell celts 
collected on Barbados. They have also brought to the attention of 
students numerous village sites that show evidences of a long con- 
tinued occupation. 
In a brief reconnaissance* made on Barbados by me in 1902, an 
examination was made of the archaeological evidence and data gath- 
ered bearing on the age and nature of the culture it revealed. An 
attempt is here made to determine the relation of this material to that 
found on the other West Indies. I am convinced from this examina- 
tion that Barbados had a large local population in prehistoric times, 
* These studies were made under the auspices of the Heye Museum of New York and 
the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution; a more complete 
account, amply illustrated, will be published later by the Bureau. 
