558 CATALOGUE OF LINGUISTIC MANUSCRIPTS. 
XI. Food, 6 words. 
XII. Games and sports, 5 words. 
XIII. Animals: 
Mammals, 91 words. 
Parts of the body, &c., of mammals, 36 words. 
Birds, 192 words. 
Parts of the body, &c., of birds, 26 words. 
Fish, 12 words. 
Parts of the body, &c., of fish, 12 words. 
Reptiles,6 words. 
Insects, 11 words. 
XIV. Trees, shrubs, fruits, &c., 8 words. 
XV. The firmament, meteorologic and other physical phenomena and objects, 41 
words. 
XVI. Geographic terms, 8 words. 
XVII. Geographic names. 
XVIII. Colors, 13 words. 
XIX. Numerals : 
Cardinal numbers, 58 words (1-1000). 
Ordinal numbers, 30 words. 
Numeral adverbs denoting repetition of action, 23 words. 
Multiplicatives, 22 words. 
Distributives, 23 words. 
XX. Measures. 
XXI. Divisions of time, 29 words. 
XXIi. Standard of value. 
XXILL New words, 84 words. 
XXIV. Phrases and sentences, 545 phrases, &c. 
This paper was prepared with special reference to the wants of the 
collector, being printed on bond paper and bound in flexible cloth. It 
was widely distributed and, like that of Mr. Gibbs, resulted in the col 
lection of valuable linguistic material. 
In 1879 Congress consolidated the various surveys, including that of 
the Rocky Mountain Region, into the United States Geological Survey, 
but made provision for continuing the publication of the Contributions 
to North American Ethnology under the direction of the Secretary of 
the Smithsonian Institution, and directed that the ethnologic material 
in Major Powell’s hands be turned over to the Institution. Thus the 
Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution was organized, and 
Major Powell was placed at its head. 
By this time the growing interest manifested in the study of North 
American linguistics rendered necessary the preparation of a new edi- 
tion of the Introduction. In the words of the author: 
“The progress made by various students, and the studies made by 
the author, alike require that a new edition be prepared to meet the 
more advanced wants and to embody the results of wider studies. Un- 
der these circumstances the present edition is published. It does not 
purport to be a philosophic treatment of the subject of language; it is 
not a comparative grammar of Indian tongues; it is simply a series of 
explanations of certain characteristics almost universally found by stu- 
