400 ANNUAL KECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



All that could be reasonably expected in North American 

 Indian philology is now being done under the direction of 

 Major J. W. Powell, to whom the Smithsonian Institution 

 1ms confided the linguistic material collected since its foun- 

 dation. A brief sketch of this work will be found in the 

 " Annual Report" for 1877, p. 82, and in the Report of Major 

 Powell to the Secretary of the Interior. The Indians of 

 North America are divided into G4 linguistic stocks. Some 

 of these are very small, while others cover an immense area. 

 Major Powell is especially conversant with the tribes of the 

 Great Interior Basin, commonly known as Shoshonees or 

 Numas. Other parts of the work are allotted to specialists 

 in each department. Mr. Dall will superintend the publica- 

 tion of the limit manuscripts; Mr. Gatschet, the author of 

 several linguistic papers, will contribute a great deal of ma- 

 terial upon the Northern Californian and Southern Oregon 

 tribes; Messrs. Riggs and Dorsey will take charge of the 

 Dakota tribes; Mr. Trumbull will be the chief authority 

 upon the Algonkin stock; Mr. Mason will have charge of 

 the Cherokee and Chahta-Muskokee linguistic material, and 

 will also prepare a synonymy of all the tribes. Mr. Powers 

 has already worked up the Central Californian tribes in Pow- 

 ell's third volume. Colonel Mallery will collect the material 

 for the historical and political portion of the work; and Mr. 

 Pilling will compile the bibliography. In addition to these 

 collaborators, the best available aid has been invoked to col- 

 lect vocabularies and grammars from the tribes. 



Only the most meagre outline of the immense amount of 

 work done in philology by European scholars can be given. 

 The sources to which the inquirer should go are the pub- 

 lications of the London Philological Society, the Iievue 

 Ijinguistiquc, and Lazarus and Steinthal's Zeitschrift fur 

 Vblkerpsychologie mid SprachwissenscHaft. The journals of 

 all the great anthropological societies of Great Britain, 

 France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, and Italy also 

 publish a great deal of matter relating to comparative 

 philology. 



Professor R, G.Latham has published, in London, "Out- 

 lines of General and Developmental Philology," and Mr. 

 Sayce, an "Introduction to the Science of Language." In 

 the Iievue cV Anthropologic, p. 47, M. Hovelacque treats of the 



