ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 9 



The systematic ethnological researches by members of the 

 regular staff of the Bureau are summarized as follows : 



Mr. F. W. Hodge, ethnologist-in-charge, when administra- 

 tive work permitted devoted his attention almost exclusively 

 to the editing of the Handbook of American Indians (pt. 2), 

 which was so far advanced toward completion at the close 

 of the fiscal year that it seemed very probable the volume 

 would be ready for distribution within about six months. 

 As the work on part 2 was in progress, advantage was taken 

 df the opportunity afforded by the necessary literary research 

 in connection therewith to procure new data for incorpora- 

 tion in a revised edition of the entire work, which it is pro- 

 posed to issue as soon as the first edition of part 2 has 

 appeared. The demand for the handbook is still very great, 

 many thousands of requests having been received which 

 could not be supplied owing to the limited edition. 



With the exception of a brief trip, Mr. James Mooney, 

 ethnologist, remained in the office throughout the entire 

 fiscal year, occupied chiefly in the elaboration of his study of 

 Indian population, with frequent attention to work on the 

 Handbook of American Indians, and to various routine 

 duties, especially those connected with supplying informa- 

 tion to correspondents. The investigation of the former and 

 present population covers the entire territory north of Mexico, 

 from the discovery to the present time, and involves the close 

 examination of a great body of literature, particularly docu- 

 mentary records of the various colonies and of the official 

 reports of French and Spanish explorers and commanders, 

 together with such special collections as the Jesuit Relations 

 and the annual Indian reports of the United States and Cana- 

 dian governments from the beginning. It is also necessary, 

 first, to fix and differentiate the tribe, and then to follow 

 the wasting fortunes of each tribe and tribal remnant under 

 change of name and habitat, further subdivision, or new 

 combination, to the end. For better handling, the whole 

 territory has been mapped into fifteen sections, each of 

 which has its own geographic and historical unity, and can 

 thus be studied separately. The investigation includes a 



