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been preparing various monographs on the results of his expedition. The introductory monograph, "The Life of the Copper Eskimos," is ready for the press. Other papers, particularly those dealing with folklore, 1 physical anthropology, and the comparative study of Eskimo cat's cradles, are in an advanced state of preparation. Special papers on linguistics, archaeology, and material culture are to follow. The bulk of Mr. Jenness' material was obtained from the Copper Eskimo of Coronation gulf and Victoria island, but a great deal of it, particularly the archaeology and linguistics, belongs also to northern Alaska.

MRS. AGNES DONOHUGH is giving courses in ethnology in the Kennedy School of Missions, Hartford, Conn. She is also giving a course on African native life in the Hartford Theological Seminary. The courses in this institution are intended for better fitting missionaries to undertake work with the natives. Mrs. Donohugh has recently been elected a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

AT the Commencement of the University of Pennsylvania, June 16, Alfred I. Hallowell received the degree of M.S., and W. Leon Godshall that of M.A.

DR. J. W. FEWKES, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, has continued his archaeological investigations on the Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, during the past summer, the Bureau of American Ethnology and the National Park Service acting in collaboration.

DURING the month of June, Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt of the Bureau of American Ethnology conducted investigations among the Oneida Indians of Wisconsin, the Seneca of New York, and the Mohawk and Onondaga of Grand River, Canada.

Man (September 1920, p. 139) reports the death of Rodolfo Livi, famous among physical anthropologists for his monumental Anihro- pometria militare.

DON SAMUEL A. LAFONE QUEVEDO died on June 18, 1920 at La Plata at the age of 86. As an archaeologist and a student of linguistics he has played a large part in the scientific life of the Argentine. His investi- gations embraced the whole northern part of his country as well as parts of Bolivia. To him we owe the first ethnological investigations of the Calchaqui and Tucuman valleys. He opened the way for the investi-

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