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visit of a few weeks to some of the principal libraries of the East, nota- 

 bly the Lenox Library and the Astor Library of Xew York, and the val- 

 uable private libraries of Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull, of Hartford, and 

 Dr. D. G. Brinton, of Media, Pa. There are now 900 pages of the Bib- 

 liography in type. 



Mr. Jeremiah Curtin prepared, in part from material in the office, 

 vocabularies of the Muskoki, Caddo, and Seneca languages, and of the 

 Chinook jargon, also a collection of Seneca folk-lore. 



Mr. C. C. Boyce resumed the preparation of a historical atlas of In- 

 dian affairs. 



This work will indicate upon a series of charts the boundaries of all 

 cessions of land made to the United States by the several Indian tribes, 

 the location of present and former Indian villages, and all points or 

 places of historical interest, reciting briefly the location, character, and 

 condition of each tribe in its earliest relations with the whites ; its mi- 

 gration, wars, and diplomacy to the formation of the Federal Govern- 

 ment, and a particular account of the various treaties with the United 

 States, together with the causes and results thereof. The progress of 

 the year covers the cessions in all the States and Territories between 

 the Mississippi Biver and the Pacific slope ; also the greater part of 

 Wisconsin, Michigan, and much in Tennessee, North Carolina, and 

 Georgia, as well as the collection of a large amount of historical data 

 relating to the different tribes. 



Mr. Albert S. Gatschet was engaged in revising the items compos- 

 ing his English-Klamath Dictionary and putting them in shape so as to 

 be ready for the press. 



Many of the longtr items had to be rewritten entirely from the ma- 

 terials on hand. 



In the middle of May type-setting began on the work, and it was com- 

 pleted and stereotyped by the latter part of August. Including the 

 preface, this second part of the dictionary now contains 205 quarto 

 pages, with about 1,400 items. 



Mr. Gatschet also undertook the revision of the manuscript of his 

 grammar, part of which had to be rewritten. 



The Dakota-English portion of the Dakota Dictionary of Rev. S. B. 

 Biggs, D. D., being 055 pages of proof, was finally corrected in April, 

 1883. The death of this distinguished missionary and scholar in Au- 

 gust, 1883, required the transfer of the preparation of the English- 

 Dakota part of the dictionary to Rev. John P. Williamson, who has 

 since been engaged upon it. 



From March to December, inclusive, Rev. J. Clwen Dorsey was occu- 

 pied in the preparation of a Kwapa vocabulary of several hundred 

 words, and the Kansas and Osage dictionaries, from the material col- 

 lected by him in Indian Territory, as well as in the transliteration of part 

 of the Ponka dictionary, to make it conform to the last alphabet of the 

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