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Mr. Victor Mindeleff was occupied during the month of 

 July and the early part of August in completing a large scale 

 model of the pueblo of Zuni, N. Mex , the plans and other data 

 for which had been collected during the preceding year. 



After his return from the field in February, 1883, he com- 

 menced a series of models of the seven Moki villages to a scale 

 and finish uniform with the model of Zuni. This work was 

 carried on until June, when it was interrupted for the prepara- 

 tion of a series of duplicate models of cliff ruins and pueblos, 

 which were exhibited at the Louisville Exposition in the autumn 

 of 1883. 



Prof. Cyrus Thomas, in addition to the general direction 

 of the mound explorations already described, was person- 

 ally engaged in marking and arranging the collections ob- 

 tained and in preparing catalogues of them for the Bureau and 

 the National Museum. 



He was also engaged in a study on the results of the explo- 

 rations, in connection with former knowledge on the subject, 

 and in preparing a paper on what he designates as the "north- 

 ern type" of burial mounds, embraced in the district of the 

 United States lying north of Tennessee and east of the Rocky 

 Mountains but including- North Carolina. This paper will 

 appear in the fifth annual report of the Bureau. 



Dr. H. C. Yarrow continued and nearly completed his ex- 

 haustive work on the mortuary customs of the North American 

 Indians, and was also occupied in the preparation of a paper 

 upon their medical practices. 



Prof. Otis T. Mason made further progress in his report 

 on the history of education among the North American In- 

 dians. In this he has studied the work of the Indian Office, 

 corresponded with all the schools and colleges, and made ab- 

 stracts from the enumerators' sheets of the Tenth United States 

 Census respecting the Indians not on reservations, besides 

 compiling the special statistics of the Indian census. 



Mr. Jeremiah Curtin became connected with the Bureau 

 on February 5, 1883, when he began an examination of the 

 linguistic material belonging to it; also, with the assistance of 

 Mr. Perryman, of the Indian Territory, he filled a volume of 



