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Mr. Gerard presented to the bureau an original manuscript of 31 
pages, with 21 diagrams, on “ Terminations of the Algonquian Tran- 
sitive and Indefinite Verbs and their Meanings,” to which Dr. Tru- 
man Michelson has appended a criticism. 
Additional manuscripts worthy of special note are the following: 
J. P. Dunn: Translation of Miami-Peoria Dictionary, Part 2, Aller to As- 
somer. The original of this dictionary is in the John Carter Brown Library, of 
Providence, through whose courteous librarian, Mr. George Parker Winship, 
the bureau has been provided with a photostat copy. 
J. P. Dunn: Translation of the History of Genesis, second chapter, from the 
Miami-Peoria Dictionary above cited. 
Cyrus Byington: Manuscript notebook, 1844-1848 and 1861. Kindly pre- 
sented by Mrs. Eliza Innes, daughter of this noted missionary to the Choctaw. 
James A. Gilfillan: Chippewa Sentences. A small quarto notebook kindly 
presented by Miss Emily Cook, of the Office of Indian Affairs. 
Parker Marshall: Various memoranda on the location of the Natchez Trace. 
H. A. Scomp: Comparative Choctaw and Creek Dictionary, consisting of 
1,054 sheets, 20 by 86 inches. 
Francisco Pareja: Confessionario, in Spanish and Timuqua. Photostat copy 
furnished by the courtesy of the New York Historical Society. 
Francisco Pareja: Catechismo, in Timuqua. Photostat copy furnished by 
the courtesy of the New York Historical Society. 
Francisco Pareja: Explicacion de la Doctrina, in Timuqua. Photostat copy 
furnished by the courtesy of the New York Historical Society. 
VY. C. Fredericksen: Origin cf the Eskimo and their Wanderings, with photo- 
graphs. (The author is a Danish missionary in Greenland.) 
From time to time the bureau has been put to considerable expense 
in having photostat copies made of unique manuscripts and of ex- 
cessively rare books indispensable to its researches. It is therefore 
fortunate that the opportunity was afforded, late in the fiscal year, 
to acquire a photostat apparatus which has since been in constant 
service. The urgent need of such an instrument was made especially 
manifest when the Rev. George Worpenberg, S. J., librarian of St. 
Marys College, St. Marys, Kans., generously accorded the bureau 
the privilege of copying a number of valuable original linguistic 
manuscripts in the archives of the college, pertaining chiefly to the 
Potawatomi and including a dictionary and a grammar recorded by 
the late Father Maurice Gailland. Manuscript copies of these volu- 
minous linguistic works could have been made only after infinite 
labor by an expert and at an expense far exceeding the entire cost of 
the photostat apparatus. By the close of the year the making of the 
facsimile reproductions had been commenced by Mr. Albert Sweeney, 
under the immediate direction of Mr. De Lancey Gill, illustrator. 
An opportunity was afforded at the close of the year to replace the 
wooden partition and ceiling of the manuscript room with terra 
cotta and to install a fireproof door and window coverings, thus 
giving for the first time adequate protection to the bureau’s large 
collection of priceless unpublished material. 
