LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, 



Washington, D. C, April 22, 1909. 

 Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith for publication, with 

 your approval, as a bulletin of this Bureau the manuscript of "A 

 Dictionary of the Choctaw Language," by the late Cyrus Byington, 

 under the editorship of Dr. John R. Swanton. 1 

 Very respectfully, yours, 



W. H. Holmes, Chief. 

 Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



1 Subsequently, as stated in Dr. Swanton's Introduction, Mr. Henry S. Halbert became associated 

 with him in the editorship. 



HI 



