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DR. WM. R. BLACKIE, who is conducting an archaeological survey of Westchester county, New York, for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, has located a hitherto unknown village site of the Siwanoy in the International Gardens, near Pelham Bay, and has found skeletons and a number of interesting specimens.

MR. ALANSON SKINNER of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, spent part of the months of June and July at Keshena, Wisconsin, among the Menomini Indians, gathering data on their material culture.

DR. S. A. BARRETT of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee is still engaged in the exploration of the great walled site and mounds at Aztalan, Wisconsin.

PROFESSOR HEINRICH CUNOW, known in this country for his book on the social organization of the Australians and an essay on the Inca state, has been appointed curator (Director) of the South American division of the Berlin Museum fur Volkerkunde.

PROFESSOR EDUARD SELER, who celebrated his seventieth birthday on Dec. 5, 1919, was elected to honorary membership in the Anthro- pological Society of Berlin. This organization also elected the following corresponding members: F. Sarauw (Gothenburg); Robert Lehmann- Nitsche (La Plata); Emil Fischer (Bucharest).

DR. OTTO RECHE, known for his researches along the Kaiserin Augusta River, New Guinea, is lecturing on ethnography at the new University of Hamburg.

DR. LESLIE SPIER made a brief trip to the Diegueno under the auspices of the University of California.

PROFESSOR FRANZ BOAS spent several weeks in the Southwest to continue his investigations of the Laguna language.

PROFESSOR GEORG THILENIUS has been elected Rector of the Uni- versity of Hamburg.

DR. T. T. WATERMAN, who has been connected with the University of Washington at Seattle for some years, has returned to the Department of Anthropology of the University of California.

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