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only safe rule to follow, and careful examination of all the literature 

 pertaining to Indian linguistic classification with a view to a deter- 

 mination of the name first employed for a family, together with care- 

 fully-compared tables of synonymy, was therefore indispensable. In 

 the work indicated, Mr. Uenshaw prepared a system of tables on the 

 principle explained, and in connection with them a brief account of the 

 literature bearing on the subject. 



Prof. O. T. Mason finished compiling the census of Indian education 

 from the time of the foundation of the Government, and collected ad- 

 ditional material for a grammar and dictionary of the Ohahta language. 



Mr. W. H. Holmes has been engaged during the year in carrying for- 

 ward his studies of American ceramics, and has made much progress 

 in the classification and arrangemept of the collection of pottery in the 

 National Museum. He has also prepared a paper upon the fine collec 

 tion of mound pottery in the museum of the Academj^ of Sciences at 

 Davenport, Iowa, which will appear in the Fourth Annual Eeport of 

 the Bureau. For the same volume, he has completed a paper upon the 

 origin and development of form and ornament in the ceramic art, with 

 copious illustrations. Mr. Holmes remains in charge of the department 

 of illustrations in the Bureau of Ethnology, as well as in the Geologi- 

 cal Survey, and has made good progress in elevating tbe standard of 

 work. He has also had charge of the preparation of the exhibits of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology and of the Geologic Survey for the exposition at 

 New Orleans. 



Mr. C. C Royce continued his examinations into the primal title of 

 the diflferent Indian tribes to lands within the limits of the United 

 States, and the methods employed by the United States authorities in 

 securing from such tribes a relinquishment of their title to such lands. 

 Special attention was given to compiling the data in connection with 

 the extinguishment of the Indian title to lands within the present limits 

 of Oregon, Washington Territory, California, Arizona, New Mexico, 

 Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Dakota, Texas, Minnesota, 

 Kansas, and Nebraska. The investigations before commenced in other 

 States have also been completed, and it is expected that the entire work 

 will be ready for publication within the year 1SS5. 



Rev. J. Owen Dorsey, when not in the field, made many entries for 

 an Osage-English dictionary, and for a Kansas-English dictionary, pre- 

 pared Osage and Kansas native texts with free and interlinear transla- 

 tions, and entries for the Egiha English dictionary. He also prepared 

 articles on Kansas War Customs, and Migrations of certain Siouan 

 tribes, each one illustrated by charts. A manuscript Musquito diction- 

 ary was examined and criticised. After December 1, 1884, he collated 

 the following vocabularies gained in Oregon, viz: Takelma, Sasti, Ap- 

 jjlegato Creek, Chasta Costa, Galice Creek, Mulluk, Siuslaw, Umpqua, 

 Vaquina, KliUitat, and Smith River, California. He also inxq)ared a list 

 of the villages obtained from the tribes at the Silctz Agency, Oregon. 



