American ethnologist, born at Plymouth, England, on the 28th of October 1864; was taken to the United States when seven years of age; he was educated at Washington, DC, and in 1884 received appointment to the United States Geological Survey. In 1886 he resigned his position in the Geological Survey, and became secretary of the Southwestern archæological expedition. Detailed surveys and maps on a large scale of the ruins of Los Muertos, with their accompanying irrigation acequias and reservoirs, descriptions of which have been embodied in papers on the Architecture of the Prehistoric Pueblos of Southern Arizona and Methods of Irrigation of the Ancient Inhabitants of the Salado Valley. In 1889 Mr. Hodge was appointed to the bureau of ethnology, Smithsonian Institution.
