IN WESTERN LETTERS. 
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at l\)mona Col- 
lc<>-e, Cal. ; then 
spent a year in 
Europe, stud_vin^ 
museum and lab¬ 
oratory methods 
inEthnoloj>-y and 
Anthropolojxy ; 
and since lHd2 
has been at the 
head of the work 
in Anthropology 
at Chicag’o Uni¬ 
versity. His first 
field-work was 
amon^ the Sacs 
and Foxes. Since 
then, he has 
studied in their 
homes the Chero- 
kees of North 
Carolina, the 
Tonkaways of 
Oklahoma, and 
the New Mexico 
Pueblos along the Rio Grande ; particular!}" in the Cochitf 
region. His greatest work, however, has been in Mexico, 
which he has invaded annually for the last six years, 
visiting seventeen tribes. Besides the important con¬ 
tribution above referred to, he has written several suc¬ 
cessful books of “supplementary reading,” as O;/ tJic Hi Us 
(geology). Some First Steps in Human Pro^iii'css, Anieriean 
Indians, etc. 
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The 305th meeting of the Anthropological Society of 
Washington was a memorial to the late Prank Hamilton 
Cushing (see this magazine for June, 1000 ). Glowing trib¬ 
utes were spoken b}" Major Powell, W. H. Holmes, Miss 
Fletcher, Dr. Matthews, Stewart Culin and others of rank 
in science ; and the mass of praise (recorded in the Am. 
Antliropoh\^'isl) was such an in memoriam as very few 
scholars in this countrv have ever received. As we have 
forecast, the faults and frailties of the dead genius were 
already forgotten ; and he is remembered only for the work 
none other could have done so well. The tone of the pro¬ 
ceedings, while certainly not judicial, was just. As one 
runs over the list of American Ethnology, even the most 
C M. Davis Kng Co. kkEDEKICK STAKK. 
