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to include a wider range of sounds which have been discov- 

 ered in the North American languages. 



" Second. It is necessary to enlarge the vocabulary so as to 

 modify it somewhat as experience has dictated, and that new 

 words may be collected. 



" Third. It is desirable that many simple sentences should 

 be given, so chosen as to bring out the more important char- 

 acteristics of grammatical structure." 



The new edition, with the above mentioned improvements, 

 was widely distributed among Indian agents and traders, 

 missionaries, and local students, and resulted in the collection 

 of much data in the form of linguistic and other notes, and a 

 harvest of objects illustrating the manners and customs of the 

 aborigines of America. 



Although the fruition of this plan will be considered in the 

 account of the work of the Bureau of Ethnology, I may refer 

 to the accomplishment of one of the plans of George Gibbs, 

 so often referred to in the Reports of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution for 1862 and the following years. The plan of an 

 "Ethnographic Map" was successfully carried out by Major 

 J. W. Powell and his assistants as far as linguistic stocks 

 were concerned, thus giving a valuable contribution to the 

 cartography of the Indian tribes north of Mexico. 



Of the many valuable articles on linguistics published by 

 the Smithsonian Institution, those of Dorsey on the " Com- 

 parative Phonology of Four Sioux Languages " and Roehig 

 " On the Language of the Dakota or Sioux " are noteworthy. 

 The " Lectures on Linguistics " by Professor Whitney was 

 a timely publication written by a master of philology, and 

 given a wide distribution by the Institution. Doctor Cyrus 

 Adler in his " Oriental Literature in America " treats a sub- 

 ject of ever growing interest to a large number of American 



