XXXVIII ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



of the more important stocks of North American languages. 

 As stated in the last report, the manuscript for the Siouan bib 

 liography, the second of the series, was sent to the printer 

 late in the fiscal year 1886- 87. The proof was read during 

 the summer months and the work was received from the Pub 

 lic Printer in November. Work was then begun on the Iro- 

 quoian stock of languages, and at the close of the fiscal year 

 that bibliography was ready for printing. Some preliminary 

 work was also done on the Muskhogean bibliography. Late 

 in December Mr. Pilling made a visit to the library of the 

 Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, for the 

 purpose of inspecting and taking descriptions of several im 

 portant manuscripts, temporarily there, written by Moravian 

 missionaries on Indian languages and permanently preserved 

 in the Moravian archives at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and 

 Fairfield, Canada. 



Mr. JAMES MOONEY, when not in the field, continued to be 

 charged with the synonymy relating to the Iroquoian and Al- 

 gonquian linguistic stocks, and also worked upon the vocabu 

 laries, myths, and notes of information procured by him from 

 the northern Cherokee. 



Mr. CYRUS THOMAS during the entire year has been busily en 

 gaged upon his report, before mentioned, except at short inter 

 vals when he visited the field to make personal observations. 

 The manuscript for the first volume of that report with the 

 illustrations was presented for publication about a month be 

 fore the close of the fiscal year. Work upon the manuscript, 

 illustrations, and maps for the second volume was continued. 



Mr. HENRY L. REYNOLDS was at Washington from Decem 

 ber until the close of the fiscal year, occupied in the prepara 

 tion of maps, plates, and diagrams for the report last mentioned. 



Mr. GERARD FOWKE was engaged during the winter and un 

 til the 1st of May, 1888, in preparing a paper for a report on 

 the articles of stone in the Bureau collections. 



Mr. WILLIAM H. HOLMES has had charge of the illustrations 

 intended for the Bureau publications, as in previous years, and 

 has, so far as possible, continued his studies in aboriginal art 

 and archaeology. 



