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    Although the Art Editor of "Art and Archeology" is probably best known to readers of this journal as an artist and as Director of the National Gallery, we are reminded of his enviable place in the field of American 
Archeology by the recent award to him by Columbia University of New York, of the De Loubat Prize for the most important work in the field of American Archeology for the quinquennial period ending with 1923. This work is the first volume of the "Handbook of Aboriginal American Archeology" published by the Bureau of American Archeology of the Smithsonian Institution. A previous De Loubat award of $1,000 was accorded to him for his work on the "Archeology of the Tidewater Province," which embraced as its most important feature, an elaborate study of the extensive work done by the Indians within the area now occupied by the City of Washington. Today the great oaks on the slopes of Piney Branch, within gunshot of the Fourteenth street Bridge, grow in beds of the refuse of Indian stone implement making, several feet in depth. A score of generations ago groups of the noble red men might have been seen at work on this site, as is graphically shown in one of the lay figure groups of the National Museum. 

^[[Art and archeology" Dr. Carroll.]] [[end penciled scripture]]

July 12, 1923.