Show ETHNOLOGY Prof Ulail CTnuttf Congress to Help Him in IDs Researches Chicago InterOceans Washington Washing-ton Proffer Baird sent to Speaker Randall today a communication ask ing nn appropriation of 50OUO for the purpose pur-pose oJ continuing the ethtolpgic researches among North American Indians which is now being posecuted under his direction RS fccrttary of tha Smithsonian Institute Prof Baird states that at no distant time the opportunity forrecording tho ethnology of theTJ itcd States will disappear as the Indian tribes in their primitive condition are rapidly passing away and the exhaustive researches now being prosecuted within our own territory by foreign nations arid the contents of aboriginal fields and mounds have been carried away almost in ship loads to foreign museums An immense collection collec-tion from the coast of California Oregon end Alaska has been recently transmitted transmit-ted to the government museum in Paris byan sgeut sent to the United Stales for the purpose another French expedi tiou will soon bo under way to the Almost vir1n Rrchro logical fields of Arizona and New Mexico Professor Baird says the recntion by the country within its confine i > f its own historical monu ment has been coisdered of such moment mo-ment that laws have been passed by several foreign governments prohibits g the exportation of antiquities and while it may not bs practicable or desirable for the United States to follow their ex imples we may at least anticipate reigners by engaging in the work ourS our-S Ives and transfernrg the objects col IJ I lei to tho National Museum in Wssh i i lton Unless tuck action be taken at KII early day it will be necessary to do tr lUll I upon European museums for ra1 crisis for the investigation of antiqui ti s of ihe United SUte Accompanying the Ittter of Professor Bi d is statement from Major Powell in t rrRe of tho bureau ethnology of the i slitution giving a summary of the rcsuUs of the ethnographic researches which have been presented under his direction during ten years |