THE LOUBAT PRIZES, 1894 and 1917, 
My researches during the years 1889-94, and in part 
during preceding and succeeding years were of much interest to 
students of American Archeology and of very special moment in 
the story of the former Indian tribes of the Potomac Yalley. 
They were reported somewhat fully in the publications of the 
Bureau of American Ethnology for these years as well as in re- 
ports of other branches of the Smithsonian Institution and in 
the Scientific Journals of the period. The investigation in 
Piney Branch Yalley, well within the city limits of Washington, 
led to a correct understanding of the very extensive deposits of 
chipped stone objects previously attributed, on account of their 
rude shape, to a very early period and to a Paleolithic (Early 
Stone) Culture. It was on account of these investigations that 
I won the Loubat prize of $1,000 awarded for the most important 
publication (Stone Implements of the Potomac Tidewater Province, 
13th Annual Report, B.A.E., 1893-94, pages 13-152) within the 
field of American Archeology during the five year period ending 
in 1898, and during which I also took an important part in the 
preparation of exhibits for the World f s Columbian Exposition in 
Chicago. It was the latter work that led in 1884 to my appoint 
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ment to the Curatorship of Anthropology in the Field Columbian 
Museum in Chicago. 
A second prize of $400 was awarded me for the most im- 
portant work in the same field for the five year period ending 
April 1, 1917. The publication is Bulletin 60, Part 1, of the 
Bureau of American Ethnology. 
