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relating to the manner of the ceremony or the plants to be used in 

 the prescription. The printed formula will consist of three parts, 

 namely, transliteration, translation, and explanation. The glossary 

 will comprise perhaps 4,000 words, largely archaic and otherwise 

 unusual in form. The botanical appendix will deal with the names 

 and uses of from 500 to TOO plants mentioned in the formulas, nearly 

 all of which have alread}^ been collected and botanically identified. 

 There will also be an extended chapter on Cherokee religion and 

 mythology. Approximately a third of the transliterations and trans- 

 lations have been written in final form from the interlinear note- 

 books, and half of the work has been glossarized on cards. 



Considerable time was spent by Mr. Mooney in furnishing special 

 information for use in answering inquiries of correspondents. 



Dr. John R. Swanton, ethnologist, in addition to supervising the 

 final work incident to the publication, as Bulletin 45, of " Bjdngton's 

 Choctaw Dictionary," edited by himself in conjunction with Mr. 

 H. S. Halbert, devoted attention to the study of the Creek Indians, 

 to which reference is made in former reports. The first draft of his 

 memoir on the Creeks is practically completed, but the amount of 

 material was found to be so great that it has seem.ed best to separate 

 it into two, if not three, sections. The first of these, embracing a 

 discussion of the location and classification of the southern tribes, 

 their early history, and their population, Dr. Swanton is now revis- 

 ing, incorporating new material and making such changes as fuller 

 information has shown to be necessary. It is hoped that this section 

 may be ready for publication at a comparatively early date. 



Through an Alibamu Indian living in Texas the bureau has been 

 able to add several himdred words and a few pages of text to the 

 Alibamu material gathered by Dr. Swanton. 



During the first three months of the year ]Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, eth- 

 nologist, completed the translating and editing of a collection of 

 texts and legends for the memoir on " Seneca Myths and Fiction " to 

 be published in the Thirty-second Annual Report, consisting of ma- 

 terial originally collected in native texts and in English by the late 

 Jeremiah Curtin and Mr. Hewitt. This material, aggregating 2,300 

 pages, besides 350 notes and additions by Mr. Hewitt, was submitted 

 early in October for publication. Subsequently, and as opportunity 

 was afforded throughout the year, Mr. Hewitt devoted special atten- 

 tion to the preparation of material for a grammatical sketch of the 

 Iroquois languages, especially as spoken by the Mohawk, Onondaga, 

 and Cayuga, for incorporation in the " Handbook of American In- 

 dian languages." 



In December Mr. Hewitt visited the Grand River Reservation in 

 Canada for the purpose of prosecuting his studies among the Indians 

 dwelling thereon. A serious epidemic of smallpox interfered some- 



