The annual reports of the Peabody Museum and the Fogg Art Museum made public this week show an increasing activity on the part of the representatives of these museums in the fields of research and exploration. There have also been many valuable additions to the stock of the two museums, some of which are recent discoveries and others transfers from other collections.

Professor C. C. Willoughby, Director of the Peabody Museum comments as follows on the field work which has been done in American Archaeology and Ethnolagy:

Dr. Kidder Works in Southwest

"The explorations by the Museum in the southwest were under the general direction of Dr. Kidder, Curator of Southwestern American Archaeology. Mr. C. B. Cosgrave continued the excavations begun last year of a pueblo in the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico. In the pueblo proper and in the plaza connected there with 41 rooms were cleared of debris and soil which filled and covered them. The number of burials unearthed this season was 254. In addition to the usual types of implements and ornaments common in the region, 178 bowls and other forms of pottery vessels were recovered.

"The decorations appearing upon the pottery found in the ruins of this valley are peculiar to this area. While numerous geometic designs appear, there are in addition many well-drawn figures of birds, quadrupeds, fishes, and reptiles; also representations of the human figure, shown singly of interesting groups.

Inspect Tse-a-chang Canyon

"A short time was spent investigation the ruins in the Tse-a-chang Canyon, Southwest of Carrizo Mountains. Promontory Ruin, one of the larger of these, containing about 40 rooms, was of special interest. Several of the kivas or ceremonial rooms found here were in a nearly perfect state of preservation.

"As in former years many specimens and several important collections have been received as gifts. Of special interest is the collection brought together by Dr. Phillips while traveling among the various times of the leganda region in East Africa in 1923-24. Among the groups represented are the Mad Watusi, Bahutu, Bazanda, Bamboosa, and Wambuti. Dr. Phillips also presented the Museum with very fine collection of photographs taken during the expedition, showing the people, their villages, houses, and various occupations."

In connection with excavation and exploration Professor E. W. Forbes '95, Director of the Fogg Art Museum, says:

Goldman In Asia Minor for Fogg

"Of more than University interest has been the work of excavation carried on in Greece and Asia Minor by Dr. Hety Goldman. Dr. Goldman is engaged in archaeological research for the Fogg Art Museum and is worki9ngg in cooperation with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. In the fall of 1924 excavations at Eutresis, Boeotia, resulted in valuable finds; a Greek male torso of the type of the early fifth century; the lower half of an archale seated female figure; and various kinds of pottery and other minor arts.

"In Colophon, Asia Minor, excavations which were suspended owing to political conditions in 1922 were resumed in August, and it is hoped that results of real value will develop.

"A second expedition to China under the leadership of Mr. Langdon Warner, '03, Fellow of the Fogg Museum for Research in Asia, accompanied by Mr. Horace H. Jayne, Curator of Oriental Art in the Pennsylvania Museum, Mr. Alan R. Priest, '20, Horace p. Steinson '22, and R. F. Starr sailed from Vancouver on December 19, 1924. In China Mr. Daniel v. Thompson '22, and Mr. Allan Clark, the American sculptor, also joined the party. The expedition reached its objective the caves of Tun Huang, but owing to the unsettled conditions in China it was not possible to work in the Caves or to procure the photographic record which was hoped for. The members of the expedition were allowed to go under guard to the caves on three days only. Mr. Jayne, was the leader of the party at this time.

Jayne's Work is Lauded

"Great credit is due to Mr. Jayne for his skilful handling of very difficult situation. However, other caves were found where measurements, records, and photographs were taken which, when published, will prove valuable to the students of Chinese art. In all, five different early Buddhist sites hitherto unrecorded were studied by the party tow of these before Mr. Warner's arrival.