Although the Art Editor of "Art and Archeology" 
is probably best known to readers of this Journal as an 
artist and as Director of the national Gallery, we are 
reminded of his enviable place in the field of American 
Archeology by the recent award to him by Columbia Uni- 
versity of Dew York, of the De Loubat Prise for the most 
important work in the field of American Archeology for 
the quinquennial period ending with 19 23. This work is 
the first volume of the "Handbook of Aboriginal American 
Archeology" published by the Bureau of American Archeology 
of the Smithsonian Institution. A previous De Loubat 
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award of $1,000 was accorded to him for his work on the 
"Archeology of the Tidewater Province," which embraced as 
its most important feature, an elaborate study of the ex- 
tensive work done by tbe Indians within the area now oc- 
cupied by the City of Washington. Today the great oaks 
on the elopes of Piney Branch, within gunshot of the 
Fourteenth street Bridge, grow in beds of the refuse of 
Indian stone implement making, several feet in depth. A 
score of generations ago groups of the noble red men might 
have been seen at work on this site, as is graphically 
shown in one of the lay figure groups of the national 
Museum. 
July IE, 1923. 
