Appendix II. , 

 REPORT ON THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910, con- 

 ducted in accordance with the act of Congress approved March 4, 1909, authoriz- 

 ing the continuation of ethnological researches among the American Indians and 

 the natives of Hawaii, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, and 

 in accordance with the plans of operations approved by the Secretary on June 1, 

 1909, and January 7, 1910. 



During the first half of the fiscal year tne administration of the Bureau was 

 under the immediate charge of Mr. William H. Holmes, who, on January 1, 1910, 

 severed his oflicial connection with the Bureau in order to resume his place as 

 head curator of anthropology in the United States National Museum and to 

 become curator of the National Gallery of Art, as well as to enable him to take 

 advantage of the facilities afforded by the change for publishing the results of 

 his various archeological researches. Mr. F. W. Hodge was designated on 

 the same date to assume the administration of the Bureau under the title 

 " ethnologist in charge." 



In view of the approaching change and of the necessity for devoting much of 

 his time to affairs connected with the Department of Anthropologj^ of the 

 National Museum and the National Gallery of Art and the administration of the 

 Bureau, Mr. Holmes found it impracticable to give attention to field I'esearch 

 during the remainder of 3909. Good progress was made in the preparation of 

 the Handbook of American Archeology, to which he had devoted much attention 

 during the year and to which reference has been made in previous reports. 



The systematic ethnological researches of the Bureau were continued as in 

 previous years with the regular force of the Bureau, consisting of eight eth- 

 nologists, increased to ten toward the close of the year by the appointment of 

 two additional members of the staff, and finally decreased by the death of one 

 membei*. In addition, the services of several specialists in their respective 

 fields were enlisted for special work, as follows : 



Prof. Franz Boas, honorary philologist, with several assistants, for research 

 in the languages of the American aborigines, particularly with the view of 

 incorporating the results in the Handbook of American Indian Languages. 



Miss Alice C. Fletcher and Mr. Francis La Flesche, for continuing the revision 

 of the proofs of their monograph on the Omaha Indians, to be published as the 

 " accompanying paper " of the Twenty-seventh Annual Report. 



Miss Frances Densmore, for researches in Indian music. 



Mr. J. P. Dunn, for studies of the tribes of the Algonquian family residing or 

 formerly resident in the Middle West. 



Rev. Dr. George P. Donehoo, for investigations in the history, geography, and 

 ethnology of the tribes formerly living in western Pennsylvania and south- 

 western New York, for incorporation in the Handbook of American Indians. 



Mr. William R. Gerard, for studies of the etymology of Algonquian place and 

 tribal names and of terms that have found their way into the English language, 

 for incorporation in the same work. 

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