regrettable that there is still need for clarification. A 
veil of false mystery still shrouds ties© regions in the 
popular mind. The special writers want buried cities and 
sepulchres comparable to that of Tut-ankh-Amen and create 
them for t a public if the archaeologist will not. The 
belief is still too prevalent that distinct races flourished 
on and long ago vanished from the American continent. The 
public has never accepted the fact, and archaeologists have 
been singularly timid about asserting it, that in studying 
the archaeology of those regions we are studying the early 
history of Indian people who still survive, who built no 
cities, who left no tombstones or sarcophagi. In some re¬ 
spects the science of American archaeology is still in the 
romantic stage. The great service done by William H. Holmes, 
in clarifying all this and setting the students of early 
America on the right road, did not cease with the achievements 
mentioned above but has steadily continued for half a century. 
He has stood like a rock against the acceptance of paleolithic 
man in America on insufficient evidence and has set a standard 
of scientific exactness that Fill enabje us to avoid some of 
the pitfalls that abound in archaeology. ... ... 
!? John Wesley Powell, starting, like Mr* Holmes, in 
the geological field, sensed the importance of the study of 
the Pueblos, both living and ancient, as well as of the entire 
native American race. Through him the Bureau of American 
