Joan Mark, associate in the history of anthropology; Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University; is the author of "Four Anthropologists: An American Science in Its Early Years" (1980) and coeditor, with Frederick F. Hoxie, of "With the Nez Perces: Alice Fletcher in the Field, 1889-1892," by E. Jane Gay (1981, also a Bison Book).