The Lamar register., 1897-11-20

losses by our finds about Port Town
send said Prof. Wilson in discussing
the matter. We have found that
Puget Sound is a most valuable field
for research for certain forms of ma
rtne life. The particular specimens
which We obtained are highly interest
ing from the scientists point or view.
believe that this field work is about
the most useful thar a university can
undertake aud | am glad to see that
with every year more and more parties
are going out"
roushlng II on the northwest coast a
party of their fellow students. under
the direction OF Prof Osborn. were
searching in Colorado and Wyoming
for specimens of extinct animal life.
They were amply rewarded, finding
among other specimens, the skeleton
OF a huge dtnosaur and proving that
these great animals once occupied this
region as well as the equatorial dis
tricts in which their bones have form
erly been found stiii third party OF
Columbia men were busy at Woods
Holl. on the Massachusetts coast. gath
ering botanical and biological speci-
mems.
The Pacific coast was the scene OF a
great deal OF scientific activity during
the summer months. One OF the most
preteatious of these efforts was that
OF President Jordan and his party of
Leland Stanford students. This par
ticular expedition visited the Pribiyofs
Islands for the particular purpose OF
sft,a ~. -.
young seals in accordance with the
provisions of the United States govern
ment The trip was successful and sew
eral hundred young seals we're brand
ed in a manner that is expected TO
protect them from the pelagic hunters
for the coming three seasons
In British Columbia DIR. Franz Boas.
Of the American museum OF natural
history. and DR.. Livingston Farrand.
OF Columbia. were packing across the
country. gathering specimens OF the
weapons. manufactures and ornaments
OF the Indians in that region. and
studying their language. customs and
physical characteristics
They were absent from civilization
for several weeks. camping In the
open. and having no society except
that of their Indian guide and work
men One Of the principal dif'icuities
they encountered was In getting the
consent of the Indians 10 make ex-
cavatioas among their ancient burial
mounds and on the sites of abandoned
towns They secured n full outfst Of
an Indian village. and took casts of the
forms and features of the inhabitants,
from which models win be constructed
for group In the American museum.
They also obtained some OF the tokens.
charms anr religious embienis of the
Indians. DIR. BoAs returned 10 New
York few days ago. and expressed
himself as fully satisfied with these re-
suits OF his anthropoIogical expedition
On the California coast tho. Smith
sonian institution and Leland Stan
ford. Jr., university have been at work
together gathering specimens Of ma
rine life. Further south. on the Santa
CATALONIA islands. Harvard and the
University Of California have been col
Letting antiquities
The search for antiquities ou the site
of the ancient civilization of the con-
tinent was carried on by the repre-
sentatiyes OF several universities. Or.
Frederick Starr. of the University OF
Chicago. has been collecting In Mexico.
and DIR. AdoIph Bandelier has been
deiving among the ruins OF the ancient
Peru and Bolivia. Praf. Tier has
been searching among the graves of
yersity of Pennsylvania