Mr. Gordon, who was sent in November by the Peabody Museum to explore the ruined cities of Central America, has just returned. He spent two months in Honduras and three months in Guatemala. The principal part of his work was the exploration of the ruins of Quirigua, Guatemala, the most important ruined city of the ancient Maya civilization. It is buried in a dense tropical jungle through which roads had to be cut to reach the site. The most remarkable of the relics are the stone monoliths covered with inscriptions and weighing from fifteen to sixty tons. During his investigations at Quirigua Mr. Gordon discovered two new monoliths, each about twenty-five tons in weight. Thirteen monoliths in all have been found. Moulds of these have been made and exact reproductions in plaster will be placed in the Peabody Museum. Besides the explorations at Quirigua, other trips were made into more remote parts of the country and several groups of ruins, as yet unexplored, were found. As the Guatemalan Government has granted permission to make further explorations, the Museum hopes soon to investigate these newly discovered ruins.