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in the series above referred to, and arrangements made by 

 which a considerable number of copies of each memoir were 

 secured from the pubHsher for distribution. In this way the 

 Smithsonian aided in the pubHcation of grammars or vocabu- 

 laries of the Mutsun language, spoken at the missions of 

 San Juan Bautista and San Antonio, California, and the 

 Yakima and Pima. 



Instruction for research relative to ethnology and philology 

 prepared by George Gibbs and printed and distributed to 

 officers of the United States and other governments met 

 with a gratifying response. As supplemental to that work 

 blank forms for systematic records were sent out, resulting 

 in valuable returns of vocabularies, implements, and other 

 objects illustrative of the arts, customs, and mental condition 

 of American races. The vocabularies were intrusted to 

 Gibbs, whose work for many years was largely gratuitous. 

 He contributed to the publications several valuable articles, 

 of which his dictionary of the Chinook jargon and " Com- 

 parative Vocabulary " are good examples of his work. 



The accumulated material on Indian linguistics passed into 

 the hands of the Bureau of Ethnology at its foundation, and 

 the continuation of its elaboration naturally will be found in 

 the account of that department of the Institution. 



The " Instructions for Research relative to the Ethnology 

 and Philology of America," by George Gibbs, first published 

 in 1 86 1, stimulated investigation throughout the country, and 

 fifteen years later the demand for this work had been so 

 great that a second edition of more comprehensive plan was 

 prepared under the direction of Major J. W. Powell. The 

 elaboration adopted the following plan, as stated in the report 

 for 1876: 



''First, It is found necessary to enlarge the alphabet so as 

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