30 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1908. ; 
America; and as much will be written about this industry in the near 
future it is very important for authors to reach an agreement in this 
particular, To give each specimen its full value, the describer 
should furnish its native name and that of the tribe using it, the 
location, and the materials. The spelling of the words should be 
uniform and of good usage, so that the least possible confusion will 
arise. These subjects are discussed in a manuscript by Professor 
Mason, entitled: “ Vocabulary of Malaysian Basket Work,” which 
has recently been sent to press. Another completed study by the same 
author on the Abbott collections embraces the trap series, using the 
term in its broadest sense. 
The results of a special research by Dr. Walter Hough, assistant 
curator of ethnology, on the material in the Museum relating to the 
pulque industry of Mexico were published in the Proceedings. Doc- 
tor Hough also began a study of the blowguns collected by Doctor 
Abbott in Malaysia, and of the comparative status of blowguns in 
other regions. 
Information on ethnological subjects was furnished to many appli- 
cants, and a number of persons visited the division for the purpose 
of studying its collections or its methods of work and installation. 
Data relative to Indian costumes were supplied to several artists, 
including Mr. Francis D. Millet, Mr. William Ordway Partridge, 
Mr. H. K. Bush-Brown, Mr. Francis P. Wightman, and Mr. E. V. 
Valentine. Miss M. EK. Adams, of Pasadena, California, and Miss 
Mary Lois Kissell, of the American Museum of Natural History, 
worked on the basketry collection. Miss Candace Thurber, of New 
York, examined specimens of Indian quill work and embroidery with 
reference to technical processes and designs, and Miss M. Kunckell, 
of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, stndied the methods of arranging and 
labeling Indian photographs, paintings, and plates. Myr. TH. J. Spin- 
den, of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, made use of 
the material relating to the Nez Percé Indians, on which he is pre- 
paring a memoir for the American Anthropological Association. 
Prof. Emil Goeldi, of Bern, Switzerland, obtained information on 
the technic of horn, antler, and bone work among the American 
Indians, and Mr. George K. Holmes, of the Department of Agricul- 
ture, material for an article on Indian agriculture in this country 
before the advent of the whites. Dr. N. Gordon Munro, of Yoko- 
hama, an authority on the archeology of Japan, examined the col- 
lections from ancient Japanese sites. Mr. Joseph G. Kent, of the 
Land Office, was instructed as to the collection of data relative to 
the ancient ruins of the Hopi Indian Reservation in Arizona. Mr. 
Joseph B. THingeley, of Minneapolis, made inquiries regarding the 
medicine charts of the Ojibwa, of which he has translated several, 
and he has now in course of preparation an article embodying the 
