50 ANNUAL REPOKT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1908. 



part of the collections made by the explorer was presented to the National 

 Mnsenm by the Archreological Institute. 



It is proper that appreciation of the gratuitous labors of Dr. Nathaniel B. 

 Emerson in editing and proof reading his memoir on the " Unwritten literature 

 of Hawaii," accepted for publication during the year as Bulletin 38, and also 

 the important part taken in the preparation of the " List of works relating to 

 Hawaii," assigned to Bulletin 41, by Mr. Howard M. Ballou, should be ac- 

 knowledged in this connection. 



PRESERVATION OF ANTIQUITIES. 



The bureau maintained its interest in the antiquities of the country during 

 the year. Bulletin 35, The Antiquities of the Upper Gila and Salt River Val- 

 leys in Arizona and New Mexico, by Dr. Walter Hough, was issued. The $3,000 

 appropriated by Congress for the excavation, repair, and preservation of Casa 

 Grande ruin in Arizona, and the $2,000 allotted by the Interior Department for 

 similar work among the cliff dwellers of the Mesa Verde National Park in 

 Colorado, were expended under the immediate auspices of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, the execution of the work being intrusted to Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, 

 ethnologist, as elsewhere reported. 



Progress was made in the preparation of a catalogue of antiquities, and valu- 

 able data in this field were collected by Mr. W. B. Douglas, of the General Land 

 Office, whose oflicial labors recently brought him into contact with the antiqui- 

 ties of southeastern Utah. 



During the year, by executive proclamation, several additions were made to 

 the growing list of national monuments. Three of these are of especial archeo- 

 logical interest, namely, the Tonto National Monument, situated in the Tonto 

 drainage basin, Gila County, Ariz., including two cliff dwellings not yet reported 

 on in detail ; the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, in the Gila National 

 Forest in New Mexico, comprising the group of cliff dwellings described in the 

 bureau's Bulletin 35 (p. 30), and the Grand Canyon National Monument, com- 

 prising within its limits the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, in which are situ- 

 ated innumerable antiquities, including cliff dwellings, pueblos, dwelling sites, 

 and burial places. The cliff dwellings are foimd mainly in the walls of the 

 canyon, while the other remains are scattered along the margins of the plateaus. 



COLLECTIONS. 



The collections acquired during the year and transferred according to custom 

 to the National Museum are not equal in importance to those of the preceding 

 year. They comprise 14 accessions, the most noteworthy being collections of 

 stone relics from the Potomac Valley, by G. Wylie Gill and W. H. Holmes; a 

 collection of ethnologic material obtained from the Tahltan Indians of British 

 Columbia, by Lieut. G. T. Emmons, U. S. Navy; a collection of stone implements 

 from Washington State, by C. W. Wiegel ; and relics and human bones from 

 ancient burial places in Missouri, by Gerard Fowke. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



During the year progress was made on the Handbook of American Indians, 

 and on the Handbook of American Indian Languages, as mentioned on other 

 pages. 



The edition of the twenty-fifth annual report, containing papers by Dr. 

 J. Walter Fewkes on his explorations in the West Indies and in Mexico, was 

 received from the Public Printer in September; Bulletin 30, the Handbook of 

 American Indians, part 1, in March; Bulletin 33, Skeletal Remains Suggesting 

 or Attributed to Early Man in America, in November; and Bulletin 35, 



