exceedingly meager; river terraces, and kitchen midden deposits, 
r ■ r * 
yield nothing of particular value, and the results, when viewed 
as a whole, instead of enlightening the mind, fill it rather 
with confusion. It is within the bounds of possibility that 
this confusion may in a measure toe due to the presence ?n 
America of an autochthonous race element. The contributions of 
American archeology in this department are not to toe ompared 
with those of the Old World where on all hands definite chron- 
ological results are forthcoming. That America may yet furnish 
contributions of importance in this branch of enquiry is, how- 
ever, well within the bounds of possibility. 
It is %hus seen that there are in America numerous 
wueationa awaiting solution and there is vagueness in many 
places, tout notwithstanding this the results of our archeological 
investigations arc on the whole most gratifying; each year the 
areas of the uncertain and the unknown are being reduced; and 
when the results achieved are supplemented toy the rich materials 
furnished by a study of the living peoples, they must go far 
