XXII ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 
view of the origin of classifying particles seems to be war- 
ranted by studies from a great variety of Indian sources. 
The syntactic portion is divided into four parts: 
Ist. On the predicative relation; 
2d. On the objective relation; 
3d. On the attributive relation; and the 
4th. Exhibits the formation of simple and compound sen- 
tences, followed by notes on the incorporative tendency of the 
language, its rhetoric, figures, and idioms. 
The alphabet adopted by Mr. Gatschet differs slightly from 
that used by the Bureau, particularly in the modification of 
certain Roman characters and the introduction of one Greek 
character. This occurred from the fact that Mr. Gatschet’s 
material had been partly prepared prior to the adoption of the 
alphabet now in use. 
Mr. Gatschet has collected much valuable material relating 
to governmental and social institutions, mythology, religion, 
music, poetry, oratory, and other interesting matters. The 
body of Klamath literature, or otherwise the text previously 
mentioned, constitutes the basis of these investigations. 
STUDIES AMONG THE IROQUOIS, BY MRS. E. A. SMITH 
Mrs. Smith, of Jersey City, has undertaken to prepare a 
series of chrestomathies of the Iroquois language, and has 
already made much progress. Three of them are ready for 
the printer, and that on the Tuscarora language has been 
increased much beyond the limits at first established. She 
has also collected interesting material relating to the my- 
thology, habits, customs, &c., of these Indians, and her con- 
tributions will be interesting and important. 
WORK BY PROF. OTIS T. MASON. 
On the advent of the white man in America a great number of 
tribes were found. Fora variety of reasons the nomenclature 
