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syllabaries, &c. Part 1 of Vol. II of Contributions to North American 

 Ethnology, consisting of the Klamath-English dictionary, by Mr. A. S. 

 Gatschet, with grammatical notes, was put in type ; also over 500 pages 

 of Eev. J. Owen Dorsey's (j'egiha language, and 400 pages of Eev. S. 

 D. Eiggs' Grammar and dictionary of the Dakota language, which will 

 appear in Volumes 6 (in three parts) and 7 (in two i)arts) of the last- 

 mentioned series. 



The papers prepared and intended for the Third Annual Eeport are 

 as follows: Introduction to the study of tribe government, by J. W. 

 Powell, as an introduction to the three following papers, viz : The Mus- 

 koki confederacy, by J. W. Powell j The government of the Omahas, by 

 Rev. J. Owen Dorsey ; and the government of the Zuiiis, by F. H. Gush- 

 ing ; Introduction to the study of pictographs, by Col. Garrick Mallery ; 

 On certain Maya and Mexican MSS., by Prof. Cyrus Thomas ; The art 

 of weaving among the Navajos, by Dr. Washington Matthews, U. S. A. ; 

 An illustrated catalogue, by W. H. Holmes, of Mr. James Stevenson's 

 collection from Zuui and Walpi ; and two other miscellaneous collec- 

 tions. Mr. Gatschet has also furnished a paper on the chief deities of 

 the American Indians. 



Work not yet sufficiently complete for immediate publication has 

 been continued by Mr. Gatschet in the synonymy of the tribes of North 

 America; by him and Colonel Mallery, on an ethnographic chart of the 

 distribution of those tribes when first met by Europeans; by Mrs. Er- 

 minnie A. Smith, on a vocabulary and grammar of several Iroquoian dia- 

 lects; by Mr. H. W. Henshaw, on Indian industries; by Dr. H. C. Yar- 

 row in completion of his monograph on Mortuary Observances; and by 

 Prof. O. T. Mason, on Indian industries. Colonel Mallery has been en- 

 gaged in comiDleting a monograph on sign language, and collecting the 

 materials for another on pictograi:>hs, these two closely connected subjects 

 comprising the direct visible expression of ideas, of which the signs are 

 transient and the pictographs the ijermanent expressions. Mr. Victor 

 Mindeleff prepared a relief model of the pueblo of Zuili, on the scale 

 of one (1) inch to five (5) feet, which is now in the National Museum 

 and is an object of great interest. 



During the year many linguistic MSS. were received from various 

 collectors. 



UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SUEVEY. 



In accordance with the practice of the Institution to supply an an- 

 nual account of the work of the United States Geological Survey, the 

 following brief summary, is given, furnished by the courtesy of its 

 Director, Maj. J. W. Powell: 



Of the three phases which the field work of the Survey assumes, 

 the collection of representative rocks, minerals, and fossils is more 

 directly and manifestly contributory to the Institution and the Museum 



