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had been prepared by other collaborators, but were recast 

 by Mr. Hewitt in order to embody in them the latest views 

 regarding their subject-matter. Mr. Hewitt also conducted 

 extensive researches into the history of the Indians of the 

 Susquehanna River during the seventeenth century, and 

 their relations with neighboring peoples, resulting in the 

 discovery that a number of important tribes were desig- 

 nated by the names Susquehanna, Conestoga or Andastes, 

 Massawomek, Erie, Black Minquas, Tehotitachsae, and 

 Atrakwayeronon (Akhrakwayeronon) . It is proposed to 

 incorporate this material into a bulletin, with several early 

 maps, in order to make it available to students of the his- 

 tory of the Indians of Pennsylvania and New York, and 

 their relations with white people. Mr. Hewitt also devoted 

 about two months to the translation of Onondaga native texts 

 relating to the New Year ceremony, and began work on the 

 classification of the late Jeremiah Curtin's Seneca legends, 

 with a view of preparing them for publication by the Bureau. 



As custodian of the linguistic manuscripts in the Bureau 

 archives, Mr. Hewitt spent considerable time in installing 

 this material, comprising 1,704 items, on its removal from 

 the former quarters of the Bureau to the Smithsonian 

 building. He was frequently occupied also in receiving 

 manuscripts and in searching and charging those required 

 by collaborators either for temporary or for prolonged use. 

 Much time and labor were also devoted by Mr. Hewitt to 

 the collection and preparation of data of an ethnological 

 character for replies to correspondents. 



Dr. Cyrus Thomas, ethnologist, while not engaged in revis- 

 ing the proofs of Bulletin 44, Indian Languages of Mexico 

 and Central America and their Geographical Distribution, 

 prepared by him with the assistance of Doctor Swanton, 

 devoted his attention to the elaboration of the List of 

 Works Relating to Hawaii, with the collaboration of Prof. 

 H. M. Ballou. Toward the close of the fiscal year Doctor 

 Thomas undertook an investigation of the relations of the 

 Hawaiians to other Polynesian peoples, but unfortunately 

 this work was interrupted in May by illness which termi- 

 nated in his death on June 26. Doctor Thomas had been a 



