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the Chumashan. These translations now include an almost exhaustive 

 study of the earlier period of Chumashan history. The grammatical 

 material was all perfectly heard and reaches into every corner of 

 phonetic phenomena and grammatical construction. The work con- 

 tains a new and exhaustive study of the early voyages, proving, 

 among other points that will have great popular interest, that Cabrillo 

 was the discoverer of Monterrey. It also contains translations made 

 by Mr. Harrington of the diaries of the early land expeditions, 

 throwing new light on hitherto dark chapters of the earliest history 

 of Alta California, since this history is here for the first time dealt 

 with from the Indian viewpoint. In this work Mr. Harrington has 

 cooperated with Fr. Zephyrin Engelhardt, custodian of the Santa 

 Barbara Mission archives, and with Dr. H. E. Bolton and other 

 friends at the Bancroft Library of the University of California. 



Returning to Washington in March, Mr. Harrington elaborated 

 his recent notes and prepared his Taos material for publication. 

 This consists of a thorough presentation of the documents of Taos 

 Indian history, all of them worked through afresh and provided with 

 new original translations by Mr. Harrington, a presentation of Taos 

 ethnology, and a comprehensive vocabulary of the Taos language, 

 which, as Mr. Harrington has recently pointed out, has close genetic 

 relationship with the Kiowa language. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year 1928 Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, 

 ethnologist, undertook a detailed study and interpretation of certain 

 Onondaga Iroquoian texts recorded by him in former years relating 

 to the wind or air gods, who are in fact disease gods of Iroquoian 

 mythic thought. These texts are Delphic in their brevity, and so 

 are most difficult to interpret and to correlate. They are only brief 

 myths, most of the details of which have been forgotten, and so the 

 mode of telling them has become oracular. 



Mr. Hewitt read the galley proof of his paper in the forty-third 

 annual report of the bureau, Iroquoian Cosmology, Second Part. 

 Severe illness during the early winter delayed this work, but upon 

 partial recovery he completed this task and also the final reading in 

 page proofs. 



Mr. Hewitt also edited Mr. Edwin Thompson Denig's manuscript, 

 Report on the Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri to the Hon. Isaac 

 H. Steven,s, Governor of Washington Territory. He added an intro- 

 duction to the report, with a brief biography of the author. 



As the representative of the Smithsonian Institution on the United 

 States Geographic Board, Mr. Hewitt attended the meetings of the 

 board and of the executive committee of that board, of which he is 

 also a member. 



As custodian of the bureau manuscripts, Mr. Hewitt reports the 

 continuation of the work of recataloguing the manuscript material 



