An Unknown Field in American Archeology An Unknown Field in American Archeology the State would do much to settle these questions, while an exploration of the caves in the east and the photographing of all the petroglyphs of which we heard in the west so that a comparative study could be made of them, would give us a more detailed understanding than can be had from a mere reconnaissance. One of the problems of most interest to ethnologists is whether the-plains have been inhabited for any considerable number of years, say before the introduction of the modern horse. An exploration of the caves may throw light on this problem, but in all this work of determining the location, character and age of cultures there must be co-operation between archaeologists, geologists, linguists, ethnologists and students of mythology and tradition.

KORDOFAN Kordofan is the large Province of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between the Nile and Darfur. Knowledge of this large region was quite imperfect until the British ended the regime of the Mahdi in 1899. Since that time the British have traversed the country in all directions and have made a map of a large part of the province on a scale of I :250,ooo which gives a very good idea of it, though the map is not based on triangulation.

Captain Watkiss Lloyd, recently governor of Kordofan, has an article on this large region in the Geographical Journal (March, 19Io, pp. 249-267, map and illustrations), in which he contributes many new facts to our knowledge of Kordofan. The following data are taken from his paper: The province includes about I30,000 square miles with an estimated population of about 500,000. It extends about 400 miles N. and S. and 350 miles E. and W. It is naturally divided into two parts, North and South Kordofan, the dividing line extending obliquely from lat. 12? N., on the frontier of Darfur, to lat. I3? N. on the White Nile.

North Kordofan consists of plains, generally sandy, formed by the disintegration of granite and sandstone hills and broken in the north by clusters of granite hills. North of lat. I4? 30' N., the plains are often stony and broken by many wadis, the streams losing themselves in the sand or forming small lakes that dry up after the the State would do much to settle these questions, while an exploration of the caves in the east and the photographing of all the petroglyphs of which we heard in the west so that a comparative study could be made of them, would give us a more detailed understanding than can be had from a mere reconnaissance. One of the problems of most interest to ethnologists is whether the-plains have been inhabited for any considerable number of years, say before the introduction of the modern horse. An exploration of the caves may throw light on this problem, but in all this work of determining the location, character and age of cultures there must be co-operation between archaeologists, geologists, linguists, ethnologists and students of mythology and tradition.

KORDOFAN Kordofan is the large Province of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between the Nile and Darfur. Knowledge of this large region was quite imperfect until the British ended the regime of the Mahdi in 1899. Since that time the British have traversed the country in all directions and have made a map of a large part of the province on a scale of I :250,ooo which gives a very good idea of it, though the map is not based on triangulation.

Captain Watkiss Lloyd, recently governor of Kordofan, has an article on this large region in the Geographical Journal (March, 19Io, pp. 249-267, map and illustrations), in which he contributes many new facts to our knowledge of Kordofan. The following data are taken from his paper: The province includes about I30,000 square miles with an estimated population of about 500,000. It extends about 400 miles N. and S. and 350 miles E. and W. It is naturally divided into two parts, North and South Kordofan, the dividing line extending obliquely from lat. 12? N., on the frontier of Darfur, to lat. I3? N. on the White Nile.

North Kordofan consists of plains, generally sandy, formed by the disintegration of granite and sandstone hills and broken in the north by clusters of granite hills. North of lat. I4? 30' N., the plains are often stony and broken by many wadis, the streams losing themselves in the sand or forming small lakes that dry up after the 521 521