More than one serious student of the ethno-history of our Southwest has frankly declared that the basis of future investigation of the kind that Bandelier inaugurated will always be the writings of that eminent man.

Had he been permitted to live and labor, nothing would have given him greater satisfaction than the knowledge that the people among whom he spent so many years are of those who fully appreciate the breadth of his learning and who have been instrumental in the creation, by proclamation of the President, of the "Bandelier National Monument," for the purpose of preserving for future generations some of the archaeological remains he was the first to observe and describe.
F.W.

HODGE.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASHINGTON, D.C., _September 25, 1916._ * * * * * NOTE A SPECIAL interest attaches to the illustrations, now first included in this edition.

Many of them are from photographs made by Chas.

F.Lummis in 1890, under the supervision of Bandelier, and with special reference to "The Delight Makers," then being written.