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emphasis or in the way the thought is clothed in words. If such differences were to have been avoided and if all differences in style of writing were to have been eliminated, it would have been necessary for one person to have written the entire final draft of the report, something which would have been repugnant to the whole spirit of the survey, which was one of coöperation of specialists in different fields with a maximum of team work.

The survey staff and the Institute for Government Research wish to express their appreciation of the cordiality and cooperativeness with which the staff was received by the officers and employees of the Indian Service. Although both the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs asked to be notified personally if the staff found any difficulty in getting access to material desired, it was never necessary to take any such matter up with them. Here and there a little skepticism was naturally encountered, but the usual attitude was one of wanting to do everything possible, not only to further the work but also to make the staff comfortable. The superintendents generally appreciated the reasons that underlay the request of the survey staff that no special entertainments or exhibits be arranged for them and that the work be permitted to run as nearly as possible in a normal channel. Yet many of them and their associates were ingenious in finding little ways in which they could show hospitality. Many employees and many Indians expressed the belief and the hope that the survey would prove of great benefit to the government and to the Indian race. This is the hope of the survey staff, the Institute for Government Research, and those who made the survey possible. It is the purpose of the whole undertaking.

Technical Director. Lewis Meriam, a member of the permanent staff of the Institute for Government Research.

Education: A. B., Harvard (1905); A. M., Harvard (1906) (in the fields of economics and government); LL. B., National University Law School (1908); L. B., Law School of George Washington University (1909).

Positions held: United States Census Bureau (1905-12), Editorial and Statistical Assistant, Special Agent, and Chief, Division