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diate publication or elsewhere referred to in this report, the follow- 

 ing accessions were made during the year : 



Laguna Indian Dictionary. Deposited by the wife and son of the late John 

 B. Dunbar, of Bloomfield, N. J. 



Dr. A. L. Kroeber. Forty-nine Arapaho and Gros Ventre notebooks, six 

 packages of slips containing an Arapaho vocabulary, and a carbon copy of a 

 study of Arapaho dialects. 



War record of Sitting Bull, depicted in 55 pictographs, with a letter of 

 authentication. Deposited by Dr. D. S. Lamb, of the Army Medical Museum. 



J. P. Dunn. The third part of the translation of the anonymous Miami- 

 Peoria Dictionary, the original of which is in the John Carter Brown Library 

 at Providence, R. I. ; 36 pages, Assomer to Bercer. 



Photostat copy of "A Grammar of the Pottewatomy Language," by Rev. 

 Maurice Gailland, the original of which is in possession of St. Mary's College 

 at St. Marys, Kans. ; 452 pages. 



Note should here be made of the great usefulness of the photostat 

 apparatus acquired by the bureau during the last fiscal year, w^hich 

 has enabled the f)hotographic copying at slight cost of various manu- 

 scripts, field notes, and rare books and pamphlets needed for refer- 

 ence in the researches of the bureau. These copies have been made 

 in the photographic laboratory of the bureau by Mr. Albert Sweeney, 

 assistant to Mr. De Lancey Gill, illustrator. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The editorial work of the bureau has been continued by Mr. J. G. 

 Gurley, editor, who from time to time has been assisted by Mrs. 

 Frances S. Nichols. The publications issued during the year were : 



Bulletin 46. " Byington's Choctaw Dictionary," edited by John R. Swanton 

 and Henry S. Halbert. 



Bulletin 58. " List of Publications of the Bureau," which appeared in August, 

 1914, with a second impression in May, 1915. 



Miscellaneous publications : 



No. 10. Circular of Information Regarding Indian Popular Names. 



No. 11. Map of Linguistic Families of American Indians North of Mexico. 

 This map, which is a revision of the linguistic map published in Bulletin 30 

 (Handbook of American Indians), was reprinted in advance from the plate in 

 the report on " Indian Population in the United States and Alaska," subse- 

 quently published by the Bureau of the Census. 



No. 12. List of Indian words denoting " man," prepared in placard form for 

 use in the Smithsonian exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. 



The status of other publications now in press is as follows : 



Twenty-ninth annual report. The " accompanying paper " of this report is 

 " The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians," by J. P. Harrington, a work 

 presenting many technical difficulties. The solution of these was retarded by 

 the illness of the author, which resulted in his incapacity for several months to 

 deal with the various questions arising in connection with the text. The read- 

 ing of the proof has been carried forward as rapidly as circumstances would 

 permit, and at this time the entire report is paged with exception of the list of 



