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graphical Department of St. Petersburg, in many volumes; the charts 

 of the British Admiralty Board for the year; the AUgemeine Deutsche 

 Bibliothek, in 77 volumes, from the library at Cassel ; the Memoirs of 

 the Landwirthschaftliche Gesellschaft at Klagenfurt, in 14 quarto 

 volumes; and many others. 



Alexander S. Taylor, esq., of Monterey, California, sent to the 

 Smithsonian Institution, for examination and use, a manuscript which 

 he had borrowed from the library of the Eight Rev. Bishop of Monterey; 

 and of which he gives the following account: "This manuscript con- 

 taining 94 pages, is a vocabulary of the Mutsun tribe of California 

 Indians, living in the country around the mission of San Juan Bau- 

 tista, in Monterey county, and now nearly extinct. It was written in 

 1815, by P. Felipe Arroyo, an old missionary of great natural talents 

 and, as I am informed, very learned in the Indian languages of this 

 country. He died at the mission of Santa Inez about 1842." This 

 manuscript, on examination, proved of so interesting a character in its 

 relation to American philology and ethnography, that to afford to 

 American scholars opportunities for its study and to lessen the chances 

 of loss of the work, it was thought advisable to have it copied. This 

 accordingly has been done, the labor being performed by a Cuban 

 gentleman, under the supervision of Alexander J. Cotheal, esq., of 

 New York, who has added an English translation of some portions. 

 The number of pages in the transcript corresponds to those of the 

 original. The first seventy-seven pages, after the title and preface, 

 (which, as well as some of the explanatory matter, are in Latin,) are 

 occupied with a collection of Mutsun words and phrases, ranged some- 

 what irregularly, under the letters of the alphabet, accompanied by a 

 Spanish translation. The Indian words and phrases are written in 

 black, and the Spanish in red ink. The remaining pages contain 

 hymns, prayers, and catechetical exercises composed by the j)riests, 

 and some specimens of the music used in the native songs and dances. 

 The original, of course, has been returned, and the copy is placed in 

 the library of the Institution. 



The extensive alterations in tlie wing of the building appropriated 

 to the library, mentioned in the last report, have been completed, and 

 the additions have been found not only of importance in the better 

 arrangement and accommodation of a larger number of books, but 

 also in increasing the general architectural effect of the apartment. 



