XXIV REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY 



The time of the Ethnologist in Charge has been occupied 

 chiefly in administrative w(irk and in examining sociologic mate- 

 rial in the archives of the P)nrean and in organizing study 

 thereof. 



Pnhlkation — The Eighth Annual Report was received from 

 the bindery during the month, and other reports are advancing 

 satisfactorily. 



Columbian ExposUion — The Director, with Professor Holmes, 

 Mr Cushing, and Mrs Stevenson, has been engaged during i)art 

 of the month in arranging the Bureau exhibit in the World's 

 Columlnan Exposition at Chicago. 



OPERATIONS Dt KING AUGUST 



Work ill- si{/ii language and pictograpliy — Colonel Garrick Mal- 

 lery has continued, and during the month completed, the revi- 

 sion of ])roofs of his memoir on the " Picture-writing of tlie 

 American Indians." He has also completed tlie preparation of 

 table of contents, bibliograjihv, and general index, and these 

 have been composed, and he has revised the proofs thereof. 

 The stereotvpe plates were also examined and corrected. This 

 work is now on the ])ress as the body of the Tenth Annual 

 Report of the Bureau. 



Work ill iiiounds and ruiihirorks — Professor Cyrus Thomas 

 has contiiuied the revision of proofs of the closing portions of his 

 "Re])ort on the j\Iound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnol- 

 ogy." During the month the lists of contents and illustrations, 

 and also the g-eneral index, have been re^'ised in proof, and all 

 are now stereotyped. The monograph, which is the most vol- 

 uminous ever pre})ared on this subject, considerabl}' exceeding 

 in this respect the classic ^\'ork of Squier and Davis, comprises 

 730 pages, including 344 cuts in text and 42 plates. It forms 

 the bodv of the Twelfth Annual Report, the introductorv mat- 

 ter of which will shortly be printed. 



A part of the month was spent hj Professor Thomas in con- 

 tinuing his researches concerning the Maya codices. He also 

 completed the ])reparation of a paper relating to certain objects 

 found in mounds, designed for jiul^lieation as a bulletin and to 

 supplement the above-described re[)ort. 



