The Washington times., 1902-10-26
NOTED SCIENTISTS
TO VISIT THIS CITY
Distinguished Party Coming Here Tuesday as
Guests of the Cosmos Club.


day by distinguished party of scien-
lists, the members Of which ATTENDED
the International Congress of American
lists in New York last week.
The visitors are to remain in Wash
ington only one day, and will be the
guests of the Cosmos Club. A commit
tee composed of former Secretary OF
State John w. Foster. First Assistant
Secretary of State David ]. Hill, Libra
rian Herbert d. Putnam, W. H. Holmes,
Director Of the Bureau of Ethnology;
Charles D. Wolcott, Director of the Geo
logical Survey, and Chief Geologist Da-
vid T. Day has been appointed to en-
tertain them. They will spend much of
the time here in the National Museum
and the Bureau of Ethnology.
There will be about thirty in the party,
among them several women who are
engaged in scientific research.
Personnel of the Party.
Alice c. Fletcher, Washington men,
Der of the Americanists, will be one OF
these. She has made reputation by her
exhaustive studies of the customs OF the
Omaha Indians of Nebraska. and her Ia
pors in that field were so successful as
to secure for her a perpetual fellowship
In the Harvard University, the first ac-
corded to woman.
Miss Fletcher is regarded as one OF
the foremost of women anthropologlsts
in the world, and is connected with the
Peabody Museum of American Archaeol-
ogy and Ethnology. in Cambridge. Mass.
She is also one of the advisers OF Mrs.
Phoebe B. Hearst, in her work OF Or
pauizing a survey of the Archaeology
and ethnology of California. MISS
Fletcher has published several import
mt papers on the tribal organization
and folklore of the tribes among which
she has lived.
A. P. Mausley, OF England. who rep
resented the Anthropological Institute OF
Great Britain and Ireland in the con-
sress. deserves mention for his work IL
exploring the ancient cities of Yucatan,
southern Mexico. and Guatemala AS
result of his explorations he has pub
iished a costly work called "Biologla
Centralia Americana. He will be ac-
companied by Mrs. Mausley, VINO mas
been his constant companion and as
sistant in his Investigations. Edward H.
Thompson. also from England, who has
won name for his explorations In
Yucatan, will be in the party.
From Berlin University.
The Berlin University will be repre-
eented by DR.. Edward Seller, who has
given practically his entire life to the
study of Mexican antiquities and the de-
ciphering of the ancient languages ana
customs of the Mayas and Aztecs. He
is one of the greatest living authorities
On Mexican archaeology, on which he
has written extensively. Mrs. Seller
who accompanies her husband, has
achieved a reputation as the author of
"Auf Alten Wegen Mexico und Guate-
mala."
Prof. Karl Won den Steinen, OF the
Berlin University, who explored the az
fuents of the Amazon River in eastern
Brazil. and published volume descrip-
tive of the Indian tribes there. is
member of the party. He is regarded as
an authority on this subject.
Zelia Nuttall, of San Francisco, who
will be one of the visitors, is an enthu-
siastic Americanist and Mexican scholar,
and is connected with the Peabody Mu-
scum. Her father was a member of the
old Nuttall family Of Maryland, and sew
eral Of his ancestors were well-known
scientists. On her mothers side Miss
Nuttall is OF Spanish-M Mexican blood, and
her familiarity with the Spanish Ian
guage has been of much assistance in her
studies in Mexican archaeology. She |
has spent much of her life in England.
engaged in researches among old libra !
ries and collections of antiquities, and
has discovered, not only relics of the
early explorers OF Spanish America. but
an old codex, which she has reproduced |
under the patronage of Duke de Loubat,
and which has been named the 'Codex
Nuttalia," in her honor. Her investiga
tions in the Old World and in Mexico
have led her to comparative studies, the
results of which have been recently pub
lished by the Peabody Museum.
Mexico Strongly Represented.
DR.. Alfred Chayero. Mexican scholar, |
who has devoted many years to the study |
of the archaeological history of the re-
public, is expected in the party. The
libraries contain a volume
written by DR.. Chavero. entitled. Mex
leo Traves de los Siglos." which treats
Of the ancient history of Mexico and the