XVI ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 
titles of grammars, dictionaries, vocabularies, translations of the 
scriptures, hymnals, doctrinz christianze, tracts, school-books, 
etc., general discussions, and reviews when of sufficient import- 
‘ance; in short, a catalogue of authors who have written in or 
upon any of the languages of North America, with a list of 
their works. 
It has been the aim in preparing this material to make not 
only full titles of all the works containing linguistics, but also 
to exhaust editions. Whether full titles of editions subsequent 
to the first will be printed will depend somewhat on the size of 
the volume it will make, there being at present about four 
thousand five hundred cards, probably about three thousand 
titles ; 
The bibliography is based on the library of the Director, but 
much time has been spent in various libraries, public and 
private, the more important being the Congressional, Boston 
Public, Boston Athenzeum, Harvard College, Congregational 
of Boston, Massachusetts Historical Society, American Anti- 
quarian Society of Worcester, the John Carter Brown at Provi- 
dence, the Watkinson at Hartford, and the American Bible 
Society at New York. It is hoped that Mr. Pilling may find 
opportunity to visit the principal libraries of New York and 
Philadelphia, especially those of the historical societies, before 
the work is printed. 
In addition to personal research, much correspondence has 
been carried on with the various missionaries and Indian 
agents throughout the United States and Canada, and with 
gentlemen who have written upon the subject, among whom 
are Dr. H. Rink, of Copenhagen, Dr. J. C. EK. Buschman, of 
Berlin, and the well-known bibliographers, Mr. J. Sabin, of 
New York, Hon. J. R. Bartlett, of Providence, and Senor Don 
J. G. Icazbalceta, of the City of Mexico. 
Mr. Pilling has not attempted to classify the material lin- 
guistically. That work has been left for a future publication, 
intended to embody the results of an attempt to classify the 
tribes of North America on the basis of language, and now in 
course of preparation by the Director. 
