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Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, and to collect material for the National Museum. Should the results of this preliminary expedition warrant, it is understood that the Society is prepared to undertake more intensive in- vestigations in the future. This survey will follow certain researches in northwestern Arizona which Mr. Judd is to make for the Bureau of American Ethnology, concluding his examination of the archaeological remains north and west of the Rio Colorado. Mr. Judd left Washington on May 1st in the interest of this second detail.
PROFESSOR G. ELLIOT SMITH visited the American Museum of Natural History in May and had personal discussions on the diffusion of cultural elements and the independence of American culture with Drs. Wissler, Lowie, and Spinden.
IN February, Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, of Cambridge, England, visited this country under the auspices of the New York Psychiatrical Society in order to give a series of lectures on psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Baltimore, New York, and other centers of research along these lines. He also found time to join the American ethnologists of the East on several occasions and on March 15, under the auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Ethnological Society, he delivered an address on "Ethnology: its Aims and Needs." Dr. Rivers returned to England in April.
AT Munich Drs. Walter Lehmann, Leo Frobenius, and Weber have founded a research institute for ethnography (Forschungs-'nstitut fur Volkerkunde).
DR. KARSTEN has returned to Sweden after a three and a half years' sojourn in Ecuador, devoted mainly to the study of the Colorado and Jibaro Indians. An essay on the mythology of the latter tribe appears in the Boletin de la Sociedad ecuatoriana de Estudios historicos americanos, 1919, no. 6.
Father Laurent Le Goff has received the Loubat prize for his Die-
tionnaire frangais montagnais, precede d'une explication de I 'alphabet et d'un tableau des principals racines (Paris, 1916).
AT a meeting of the Division of Anthropology and Psychology of the National Research Council held in Washington, April 17, Professor J. H.
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