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taken up the same line of investigation with other tribes or in other parts of the country. I would not dwarf or belittle the labors or discoveries of many of our pioneers, but, conceding for them all that their friends can claim, they were but a short distance towards giving an accurate but comprehensive anthropologic and ethnologic history of the North American Indian. As to their history in prehistoric times, before Columbus, no attempt was made by these historians. Collections have been made of the implements of the North American Indian, and large prehistoric museums have been formed in nearly all parts of the United States, beginning back a hundred years or more, which are and will be of great interest and value in writing such a history. But in the majority of these cases the work has been that of collectors, sometimes for commerce, but more times to gratify that thirst for things of antiquity which seems to part of the second nature of mankind. The study by these means of the history of the