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IT is proposed to commemorate the services to anthropology of Dr. Frederick Webb Hodge, director of the South-West Museum, Los Angeles, during the fifty years in which he has been engaged in anthropological and archaeological studies by the formation of a fund to assist in the publication of research work in the field of American prehistory. Dr. Hodge's career as an anthropologist began in 1886, when he joined the Hemenway South-western Archaeological Expedition to Arizona. He became one of the pioneers in American anthropology, his best-known and undoubtedly most frequently consulted work being contained in the “Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico”, of which he was editor and one of the principal contributors. He was one of the founders of the American Anthropological Association, editing its journal, the American Anthropologist, for the first fifteen years of its existence. He was for eight years head of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and has held his present office since 1932. The proposal for a publication fund to commemorate Dr. Hodge's long and strenuous career is put forward by a committee which is fully representative of the foremost anthropologists in the United States, including Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Prof. F. Boas, Dr. Clark Wissler, Dr. A. V. Kidder, Dr. Fay-Cooper Cole, Dr. Bruno Oetteking, Dr. E. Sapir, and others. The fund will be administered as an endowment trust by the South-western Museum, and managed by an editorial committee to be nominated by the appealing Committee.
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F. W. Hodge Anniversary Publication Fund. Nature 137, 61 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137061c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137061c0