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 ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTES 199

DURING January, The Mohawk Valley Chapter of the State Arch- aeological Association was instituted in Schenectady with Langdon Gibson as President and Dr. W. W. Whitney as Vice-President.

DR. ALEŠ HRDLIČKA was absent from Washington from the latter part of January until the middle of May on a visit to China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Manchuria, and Hawaii, where he engaged in scientific work in various localities and delivered a series of lectures before the Union Medical College, Peking, under detail from the Smithsonian Institution.

MR. GERARD FOWKE left St. Louis on April i for Honolulu, where he will make an archaeological reconnoissance of the Hawaiian Islands with a view to future intensive work by the Bureau of American Eth- nology.

EARLY in May, Dr. J. W. Fewkes, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, visited Nashville, Tenn., where he delivered an illustrated lecture on the "Cliff Dwellings of the Mesa Verde" at the Centennial Club before the Tennessee Historical Society, and the Nashville Branch of the Archaeological Institute. On the iQth he left Washington for a short period of archaeological work in the Mesa Verde National Park.

DR. WALTER HOUGH, of the U. S. National Museum, left Washington at the end of May for two months work in Arizona among the Hopi and Apache Indians.

DR.' JOHN R. SWANTON, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, has been made a Corresponding Member of the Societe des Americanistes de Paris.

MR. J. A. JEANCON, of Colorado Springs, was engaged during March and April in working over the archaeological collections gathered by him last summer near Abiquiu, New Mexico, for Mr. Otto T. Mallery and in preparing a report on his observations for the Bureau of American Ethnology. The collections have been presented to the Bureau by Mr. Mallery and will later be transferred to the National Museum.

AT the request of the National Geographic Society, the Secretary of Smithsonian has granted permission for Neil M. Judd, Curator of Ameri- can Archaeology, to direct the Society's archaeological reconnaissance of

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