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commenced by him while chief of the bureau. The main body of the 

 research work in connection with this Handbook has been completed, 

 but much remains in the way of literary investigation and in the 

 preparation of illustrations. While no time can yet be fixed for the 

 completion of the work, Mr. Holmes hopes to finish the manuscript 

 and the illustrations for the first volume before the summer of 1913. 



Good progress has been made in transcribing the manuscript 

 French-Miami dictionary, by an unknown author but attributed to 

 Pere Joseph Ignatius Le Boulauger, in the John Carter Brown 

 Library at Providence, Rhode Island. The copying has been made 

 possible through the courtes}' of Mr. George Parker Winship, libra- 

 rian, who not only has placed this valuable manuscript at the dis- 

 posal of the bureau for this purpose, but has kindly permitted his 

 assistant. Miss Margaret Bingham Stillwell, to prepare the tran- 

 script, and personally has supervised the making of photostat copies 

 of part of the manuscript, especially that devoted to the text portion. 

 During the year Miss Stillwell finished and submitted the transcript 

 of 295 pageSj representing pages 20 to 77 of the original. 



Prof. Howard M. Ballon, of the College of Hawaii, has continued 

 the search for titles for the proposed List of Works Relating to 

 Hawaii, especially those of works published locallj^ in the native 

 language, many of which are very rare. In this work Prof. Ballou 

 has had the generous assistance of the Rev. Mr. Westervelt. This 

 bibliography has now reached a stage where steps should soon be 

 taken toward finally arranging the material for publication. 



There has long been need of a revision of the Catalogue of Pre- 

 historic Works East of the Rocky Mountains, prepared by the late 

 Dr. Cyrus Thomas and published as a bulletin of the bureau in 1891, 

 but which passed out of print several years ago. In the fall of 1911 

 steps were taken toward undertaking this revision, and the bureau 

 was fortunate at the outset in engaging the services of Mr. D. I. 

 Bushnell, jr., of University, Virginia, as compiler of the work. Cir- 

 cular letters were dispatched to county clerks east of the Mississippi, 

 who not only supplied direct information respecting aboriginal sites, 

 but furnished the names of hundreds of collectors and others having 

 personal knowledge of the subject, and to these special letters were 

 addressed. By this means so much information of a local character 

 was received in regard to the location of mounds, village and camp 

 sites, shell heaps, quarries and workshops, pictographs, etc., in addi- 

 tion to that recorded in the Catalogue of Dr. Thomas, that the revised 

 work gives promise of being a fairly complete Handbook of Aborig- 

 inal Remains East of the Mississippi. Besides finishing the collation 

 of this material and of other data already in possession of the bureau, 

 Mr. Bushnell has made good progress in extracting the information 

 contained in various publications devoted to ximerican archeology, 



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