visiting Washington on business growing out of their relations 
with the Government. The portraits, about sixty in number, 
represent upwards of twenty tribes, front and profile views 
of each Individual being given. Beside the portraits physical 
measurements were taken of all and masks were made of such, as 
could be induced to undergo the unpleasant ordeal. 
What I now desire to say does net have to do with 
what American archeologists or the American Government have 
done for Archeological Science but rather with what prehis- 
toric America has contributed and may be expected to contribute 
in the way of the mat ©rials of human history. 
The Importance of archeology to the student of his- 
tory is now fully recognised. The science is establishing 
its claims more fully year by year, and especially since it has 
become allied with Geology which furnishes the necessary time 
scale and with palaeontology which supplies the scale of life. 
The branch of inquiry which only a few years ago dealt with 
