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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION [[page number, aligned right]] 863 [[/page number, aligned right]]
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[[underlined]] Dr.C.U.Clark's work in Spain [[/underlined]]. The Secretary said that about a year ago General Dawes,now Ambassador to England, gave to the Smithsonian Institution a fund of $25,000 for the purpose of conducting researches for a period of two years in European archives.  The special objective was a search for early native and Spanish documents relating to the Indians of the period of the Conquest, or earlier.

Dr. Charles Upson Clark, formerly of Yale University, was selected at the recommendation of Dr. Isaiah Bowman by the Smithsonian Institution to conduct this work.

Among the valuable records which Dr. Clark has unearthed during the first year's research i[[overtyped]]a[[/overtyped]]s a voluminous manuscript of the seventeenth century, written by Vasques de Espinosa, entitled "Descripcion de las Indias". This is an account of the native tribes and countries of South America, Middle America, and the West Indies, and will be of exceptional interest to historians and anthropologists.  This was discovered in the Vatican. In the same library he was also so fortunate as to bring to light an illustrated codex drawn by a native Az[[overtyped]]r[[/overtyped]]tec artist in the year 1552.  This interesting document represents [[overtyped]]t[[/overtyped]]paintings of Mexican plants which w[[overtyped]]w[[/overtyped]]ere used by the Aztecs for medicinal purposes, and their uses described.  In the national archives at Seville, Dr. Clark discovered a number of sixteenth century Maya documents.  Among the most interesting of these is a village record book from Lake Amitillan in Guatemala, describing village transactions between the years 1559 and 1562.  This is the second oldest document in the Maya language yet discovered. With this there was also found a Nahuatl vocabulary of the same date.  Still another Maya document of exceptional value from the same source is a census and tribute list for all of the native villages of Yucatan in the year 1549.

In the library of the British Museum, Dr.Clark succeeded in locating two of the works of Francisco de Cardenas of 1639, which have long been

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