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Mr. Albert S. Gatschet, before proceeding to the field, as above men- 

 tioned, was occupied in reading proof of his Klamath dictionary ; the 

 second or English-Khuuath part, and in correcting and largely rewriting 

 the manuscript of his Klamath grammar from the copious notes made 

 during the printing of the text and the dictionary. 



Mrs. Ermiunie A. Smith continued her special study on the different 

 Iroquoian dialects. The Mohawk words previously translated from 

 the dictionary of Marcoux were all recopied and their literal meaning 

 given, as were also over 6,000 words in the Tuscarora dialect. She 

 also prepared several studies upon pronouns and other parts of speech, 

 for use in the introduction to her Iroquoian dictionary, which is in course 

 of preparation. 



Dr. H. C. Yarrow, acting assistant surgeon, U. S. A., during the part 

 of the year in which he was not, as elsewhere reported, engaged in field 

 work, continued his investigations into the mortuarj- customs of the 

 North American Indians ; maintaining the large correspondence relat- 

 ing thereto, and arranging, with a view to i)ublication, the large amount 

 of material collected by him subsequent to his preliminary paper on the 

 above-mentioned subject. 



Mr. Victor Mindeleff was occupied, when not in the field, in the prep- 

 aration of a map of Canon de Chelley and its branches, from the data 

 obtained in the field during the last season, for the purpose of showing 

 the relation of the large number of cliff ruins (the plans of which had 

 been obtained) to the topography of the canons. He also continued the 

 work of modeling the Moki villages, which had been interrupted by his 

 field trip, in a series of models illustrating ancient pueblos and cliff 

 ruins, prepared by him for the New Orleans Exposition. 



UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



Although separate in organization and management, the Smithsonian 

 Institution and the Geological Survey have enjoyed at all times such 

 close personal and official relations that it has been customary to in- 

 clude a summary of the yearly operations of the Survey in the annual 

 report of the Institution. In pursuance of this custom such a summary, 

 furnished by Maj. J. W. Powell, the Director of the Survey, is appended 

 hereto. 



The increased appropriation for the Geological Survey for the fiscal 

 year 1883-'84 made improved organization and greater expansion possi- 

 ble. To the former nothing contributed more than the obtaining of 

 suitable office accommodations— a want long felt, and finally rendered 

 imperative by the enlargement of the Survey. Formerly the Director's 

 office and executive force were in one place, the quarters of the geolo- 

 gists and geographers in another, while many divisions that should 

 have been in Washington under tlie immediate supervision of the Di- 

 rector were scattered in remote cities. This unsatisfactory couditiou 



