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THE LOUBAT PRIZES, 1894 and 1917.

    My researches during the years 1889-94, and in part during preceding and succeeding years were of much interest to students of American Archeology and of very special moment in the story of the former Indian tribes of the Potomac Valley. They were reported somewhat fully in the publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology for these years as well as in reports of other branches of the Smithsonian Institution and in the Scientific Journals of the period. The investigation in Piney Branch Valley, well within the city limits of Washington, led to a correct understanding of the very extensive deposits of chipped stone objects previously attributed, on account of their rude shape, to a very early period and to a Paleolithic (Early Stone) Culture. It was on account of these investigations that I won the Loubat prize of $1,000 awarded for the most important publication (Stone Implements of the Potomac Tidewater Province 13th Annual Report, B.A.E., 1893-94 pages 13-152)within the field of American Archeology during the five year period ending in 1898, and during which I also took an important part in the preparation of exhibits for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It was the latter work that led in 1884 to my appointment to the Curatorship of Anthropology in the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago

    A second prize of $400 was awarded me for the most important work in the same field for the five year period ending April 1, 1917. The publication is Bulletin 60, Part 1, of the Bureau of American Ethnology.