66 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1914. 
inadequate lighting. In addition to the space previously occupied, a 
room on the fourth floor of the eastern end of the Smithsonian build- 
ing was assigned temporarily to the bureau for the use of two mem- 
bers of its staff. 
Office force—The personnel of the office has remained unchanged, 
with the exception of the resignation of one messenger boy and the 
appointment of another. It has been necessary to employ a copyist 
from time to time in connection with the editing of Byington’s 
Choctaw Dictionary. The correspondence of the bureau has been 
conducted in the same manner as set forth in the last annual report 
and as hereinbefore mentioned. 
Recommendations.—The chief needs of the Bureau of American 
Ethnology lie in the extension of its researches to fields as yet un- 
exploited. Attention has frequently been called to the necessity of 
pursuing studies among Indian tribes which are rapidly becoming 
extinct, or modified by their intimate contact with civilization. 
These researches can not be conducted unless the means are pro- 
vided, since the present limited scientific corps, with inadequate 
allotments of money to meet the expenses of extended field investi- 
gations, is not equal to the immense amount of work to be done. 
Unfortunately many opportunities for conducting these researches 
which were possible a few years ago have passed away, owing to the 
death of older Indians who alone possessed certain knowledge of 
their race. Much can still be done, however, if only the means are 
afforded. j . 
It is scarcely necessary to repeat, in connection with this general 
recommendation, the estimate for an increase, amounting to $24,800, 
in the appropriation for the bureau and the brief reasons for urging 
the grant of this additional sum, inasmuch as these items will be 
found in the printed Estimates of Appropriations, 1915-16. 
Respectfully submitted. 
F. W. Hooper, 
Ethnologist-in-charge. 
The SrecreTARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 
