Hodge, Frederick

WEBB, ethnologist, was born in Plymouth, England, Oct. 28, 1864; taken to the U. S. in childhood; educated in Washington, D. C., and joined the U. S. Geological Survey, resigning to become secretary of the He men way Southwestern Archæological Expedition. While on this expedition he made detailed surveys and maps on a large scale of the ruins of Los Muertos, and their accompanying irrigation canals and reservoirs, which are described in his papers on the Architecture of the Prehistoric Pueblos of Southern Arizona, and Methods of Irrigation of the Ancient Inhabitants of the Salado Valley. He returned to Washington in 1889, and was appointed to the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution.