EEPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 51 



Antiquities of the Upper Gila and Salt River valleys in Arizona and New 

 Mexico, in February. Tlie twenty-sixth annual report was in the bindery at 

 the close of the year. At that time Bulletin 34, Physiological and Medical 

 Observations among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern 

 Mexico, by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, was for the main part in stereotype form, while 

 Bulletin 38, Unwritten Literature of Hawaii, by Dr. Nathaniel B. Emerson, the 

 manuscript of which was transmitted to the Public Printer early in the year, 

 was largely in pages. The manuscript of Bulletin 39, Tliugit Texts and Myths, 

 by Dr. John R. Swanton, and of a section of Bulletin 40, Handbook of the 

 American Indian Languages, was also transmitted to the Public Printer. 



The distribution of publications was continued as in former years. Fifteen 

 hundred copies of the twenty-fifth annual report, and a like number of Bulletins 

 33 and 35, were distributed to the regular recipients, most of whom sent their 

 own publications in exchange. 



There was a greater demand for the publications of the bureau than during 

 previous years. The great increase in the number of public libraries and the 

 multiplication of demands from the public generally, resulted in the almost 

 immediate exhaustion of the supply (3,500 copies) allotted to the bureau. 

 During the year the bureau received from outside sources a number of the 

 earlier issues of its reports and was thus able to respond to numerous requests 

 from Members of Congress for complete sets, except the first annual report, the 

 edition of which Is entirely exhausted. About 1,000 copies of the twenty-fifth 

 annual report, as well as numerous copies of the other annuals, bulletins, and 

 separate papers, were distributed in response to special requests, presented 

 lai'gely through Members of Congress. 



LINGUISTIC MANUSCRIPTS. 



The archives of the bureau contain 1,659 manuscripts, mainly linguistic. 

 The card catalogue of these manuscripts begun in the preceding year and 

 completed during the year comprises more than 14,000 titles, which give as 

 completely as possible the stock language, dialect, collector, and locality, as 

 well as the character and the date, of the manuscript. While it was not pos- 

 sible in every instance to supply all the information called for under these 

 heads, the catalogue is found to meet all ordinary requirements of reference. 

 Thei-e were several important additions to the collection of manuscripts during 

 the year, mainly through purchase. Prominent among linguistic students who 

 have recently submitted the results of their labors to the bureau are Mr. Albert 

 B. Reagan, who is making important investigations among the Hoh and the 

 Quileute Indians of Washington, and Mr. J. P. Dunn, a leading authority on 

 the Algonquian languages of the Middle West. 



Owing to the number and bulk of the bui'eau's manuscripts, it is not possible 

 to place them all in the fireproof vault, and about half the material is arranged 

 in file cases, convenient of access. These manuscripts may be classified as: 

 (1) dictionaries and vocabularies; (2) grammars, and (3) texts. By far the 

 greater number are vocabularies, of varying length and completeness. Usually 

 they give the Indian name and English equivalent without recording the deriva- 

 tion or current usage of the term given. Of greatest value are the several 

 dictionaries, among them a Dhegiha (Siouan) dictionary prepared by the late 

 Rev. J. Owen Dorsey, containing about 26,000 words; the Peoria dictionary of 

 Dr. A. S. Gatschet ; an Abnaki dictionary in three thick folio volumes, prepared 

 by the Rev. Eugene Vetromile, by whom it was deposited with the bureau; 

 and a dictionary, in five volumes, of the Choctaw tongue^ by the Rev. Cyrus 

 Byingtou. 



