REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. io 
The sum of $3,000, appropriated by Congress for the excavation, repair, and 
preservation of Casa Grande Ruin, in Arizona, was disbursed by the Smith- 
sonian Institution, Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 
having charge of the work. A brief preliminary report on the first year’s opera- 
tions will appear in the Quarterly Issue of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Col- 
lections. A second appropriation of $3,000 is provided for continuing the work 
during the coming year. 
During the year uniform rules and regulations intended to serve in carrying 
out the recently enacted law for the preservation of national antiquities were 
formulated and adopted by the three departments having control of the public 
domain. Under these, on recommendation of the Secretary of the Smithsonian 
Institution, permits were issued for conducting explorations on Indian reserva- 
tions and national forests in Idaho and Wyoming, by the American Museum of 
Natural History, New York, and among the ancient ruins on the public lands 
in Navaho and Apache counties, Arizona, by the University of California. Ar- 
rangements were also made with the Interior Department for carrying on 
explorations at Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, by the Smithsonian Institution. 
Under the same law during the year three important archeological sites were 
declared national monuments by the President of the United States. They are 
as: follows: Chaco Canyon, in New Mexico, including several important ruined 
pueblos; El Moro, New Mexico, commonly known as Inscription Rock; and 
Montezuma Castle, in Arizona, an important cliff ruin. 
CATALOGUE OF LINGUISTIC MANUSCRIPTS. 
The archives of the Bureau contain 1,626 manuscripts, mainly linguistic, of 
which only a partial catalogue had previously been made. In January Mr. 
J. B. Clayton, head clerk, began the preparation of a card catalogue, which was 
completed at the close of the year. The manuscripts were jacketed in manila 
envelopes of uniform size, except where bulk prevented, and were numbered 
from 1 to®1626. 
The catalogue comprises about 14,000 cards which give, as completely as 
available data permit, the names of stock, language, dialect, collector, and local- 
ity, as well as the date of the manuscript. It was not possible in every instance 
to supply all the information called for under these heads, but the card has 
been made as complete in each case as the information permitted. The cards 
have been arranged in one alphabetical series, the names of the languages not 
only under these languages in their proper alphabetical place, but also alpha- 
betically under their stocks. Under the name of each collector his manuscripts 
are indexed under stocks, languages, and dialects. The data in regard to 
“place” are very defective, and quite a number of the manuscripts are from 
anonymous sources. 
EDITORIAL WORK. 
Mr. Joseph G. Gurley, who was appointed to the position of editor for a 
probationary period during the previous year, was permanently appointed on 
August 16, 1906. 
The editorial work of the year may be summarized briefly as follows: The 
proof reading of the Twenty-fourth Annual Report was completed and the 
work advanced to publication. At the close of the year the Twenty-fifth 
Annual was practically finished, with the exception of the presswork, while 
the Twenty-sixth Report was in page form, so that the work was practically 
ready for printing. Bulletin 32 was completed and published early in the year, 
and Bulletin 36 also has been issued. FEulletins 33, 34, and 35 are in type, and 
