studied tribe in such a manner as to offer a model for students and raise the 
standards of ethnological work. Its information is derived* from personal 
research conducted on the very best scientific principles and dealing with a 
wealth of carefully collected material. Your Committee, therefore, recommend 
that the second prize of $400 be awarded to Dr. Franz Boas. 
Of the remaining authors represented in the competition, the Committee 
desire to single out for especial mention Dr. Karl Lumholz, who presented a 
treatise entitled, Objective Symbolism of the Huichol Indians ; Mr. Frank H. 
Cushing, who offered a manuscript interpretive of aboriginal art and industry 
under the title, Tomahawk and Calumet , Shield and Gorget ; and Dr. Walter 
Hoffmann, whose extended memoir embodies a careful study of the Menomini 
Indians. 
The Committee desire also to mention with especial commendation a work 
by Alfred P. Maudslay, of London, dealing with the Archaeology of Central 
America. This work was not submitted by its author in the competition, and 
it has not yet been completed in publication ; but its great merit is such as to 
demand some especial mention on the part of this Committee. 
All of which is respectfully submitted. 
Committee : H. T. Peck, Chairman , 
D. G. Brinton, 
W. J. McGee. 
May 21st, 1898. 
