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the British Columbia and Alberta
boundary line and the Mount Robson
region, recently returned to Washing
ton. " =
N. Hollister, naturalist In charge o
the party, IL elatea over the success Q
the expedition and states that thu
new collection Is quite complete ant
covers practically all the birds ant
animals lnhabiting this previously I'm
worked territory. The party was
small one, consisting oftour members
including Mr.. HoIlister assistant cura
tor OF mammals, and J. H. Riley Of Thu
division OF birds In the national mu
scum. b
Assembling at Edmonton, Alberta
the party proceeded on the Crane
Trunk railroad 10 the end Of the line
where they found II necessary 10 taxi
pack horses to penetrate the Noun
Robson region. The land to be sur
Seye,I included the TERRITORY lylni
about this mountain IN the heart o
the Canadian Rockies, comprising tn
NOS, rugged and broken country imas
Unable Amidst this wonderful scener!
Mount Robson rises In titanic outline
the highest peak in the Rockies, prot
ably between 1850 and $4,000 fee
high, and surrounding 1t for a dis
lance OF 90 miles in all directions
lies the field OF the survey.
In Ibis wild and unclaimed conntr.
The party OF naturaliSts remained near
~ four months, protected by specla
permits from the Canadian govern
ment. The natural history work wa
divided, Mr.. HOLSTER aud Mr.. Rlle!
collecting the birds and small animals
while the other collectors hunted BIZ
game. The collection Includes SOM
500 specimens OF birds and mammals
the latter ranging in size from tin!
mole.like creatures, called "shews," II
fullgrowm caribous and bears. Il
One enormous grizzly bear was oh
tafned by d fortunate shot. Much tin'
material for exhibition groups wigs fse
Eeured, Including series Of canbou
mountain goats, mountain sheer
beavers and many varieties OF snealles!
animals. Besides birds and MAMMALS
large numbers Of plants and insects
were collected. All the specimens havl
been turned over to. the national mu
seuln and when the collection II
Worked up parts Of twill be put OF
exhibition.
F. w. Hodge, ethnologist In charg'
Of the bureau Of American ethnolog'
of the Smithsonian institution has re
turned 10 Washington from an expedl
tion TO New Mexico, conducted unde
the joint auspices Of the bureau ant
the School OF American Archaeolog!
ut Santa Fe. EARLY In September Mr.
Hodge proceeded to FL MORO, or In
Scription Rock, in western New Mex
leo. where, with the assistance o
Jesse l.. Nusbaum Of the School o
| American Archaeology, paper impress
sious and photographs OF the inscrip
lions on the rock were made.
FL Moro is an enormous sandstone
rock rising d couple OF hundred fee
out OF the plain. aud eroded in sucl
fantastic forms as to give II the ap
pearaEce OF a great castle, hence III
Spautsh name, A small spring former
~ existing at the rock made II con
yenlent place for the Spanish explorer
Ct the seventeenth and eighteenth cen
turtles, and the smooth face OF the "cas
tie" well adapted 1t to receive th'
inscriptions Of the conquerors OF tina
early period.
The earliest inscription, and his
tor!caly the. most important, is tina
OF Juan de Onate, coloni2er OF NeV
Mexico and the founder Of the city o
! Santa Fee in 1906. 1t was In this yea
that Onate visited FL Moro ant
carved this Inscription on his return
from a trip to the head of the Gulf o
California.
There are 10 other Spanish inscrIp
lions OF almost equal Importance
among them that OF Don Diego d'
Vargas, who, In 1852, reconquered TIN
Pueblo indians after their rebellion
against Spanish authority in 1850. TIL,
PAPER Impressions, or "squeezes." hav'
been transferred to the national mi
scum, where plaster casts shortly will
he made Of them for permanent pres
erYation.
Although Ell Moro has been made
national monument by proclamation
the president there is no local custo
,lian. consequently the rock is expose,
to vandalism, and the Inscriptions, s,
important to the early history OF thu
southwest, are ever threatened witt
destruction By the thoughtless visitors
who scratch their own inslgnlfican
names In dangerous proximity to theS,
| old records OF early exploration.
Mr.. Hodge later joined Or. Edgar L
ae%ett. director OF the School o
American Archaeology, on an expedI
tion TO the ,Ieme7 valley, about sixty