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tlu- first part of the eighteenth report were received from the Government 

 Printing 'Office during the year, and these, with the second part of the 

 seventeenth report, have been distributed. 1 he second part of the eight- 

 eenth report was not delivered up to the end of June, while neither of 

 the two bulletins of the new series was quite complete; and the nineteenth 

 report, though nearly all in type, was not yet ready for the bindery at the 

 close of the year. 



Mr. De Lancey Gill remained in charge of the illustrative work, preparing 

 copy for and revising proofs of the numerous illustrations for theeighteenth 

 and nineteenth reports, lie also made photo-portraits of some two hun- 

 dred Indians, elderly members of delegations visiting Washington in the 

 interest of their tribes, and developed a considerable number of negatives 

 made by the several collaborators in the field. 



NECROLOGY. 



On January 21, 1901, the Bureau suffered a grievous loss in the death of 

 Col. F. F. Hilder, ethnologic translator. Colonel Hilder was a student of 

 ability and remarkably broad experience, and although his formal con- 

 nection with the Bureau began only on July 1, 1S9S, he had made himself 

 a place among the most valued and trusted members of the corps. A more 

 extended account of bis career will be transmitted later. 

 I have the honor to be, yours, with respect. 



\V J McGee, 

 Acting Din dor 



Mr. S. P. LANGLEY, 



Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 





