ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT LIII 



The growth of the hbrary durhiy tlie moiitli lias been quite 

 satisfactory, and a large number of publications of standard 

 character, including' several complete series, have been obtained. 



JVorl' ill iiii/tholoi/i/ — Mrs Matilda C Stevenson has, so far as 

 the state of her liealth permitted, continued the preparation of 

 her report on tlie Zuni. Most of the illustrations for this mono- 

 graph are now completed, and tlu' tinal re\'ision of the copy for 

 text is well advanced. 



Mr Frank Hamilton Crushing has continued- the preparation 

 of text and illustrations relating to the arrow games of Amer- 

 ica; and Mr Stewart Culin, who is writing on the arrow games 

 of the Oiient A\ith the view to joint ])ublication, has also made 

 satisfactorv progress. Mr Cushing has not allowed his re- 

 searches relating to divinatory games completely to interrupt 

 his more g'eneral studies relating to Zuni mvtholoo-y his work 

 in this direction, being stimulated aneu- In- the appearance of 

 Nordeiiskiold's magnificent work on the Cliff-dwellers of Mesa 

 Verde, is yielding valuable results, which will be set forth in 

 suliseqnent re])orts. 



TFo/A: ill Iiii(/uistics — During the greater part of the montli 

 Mr J. Owen Dorsey was engaged in arranging the Kwapa 

 texts collected in January and in writing the interlinear trans- 

 lations therefor. The material proves quite rich and is suffi- 

 ciently com})lete for publication in case it be found inexpedient 

 to collect additional data; the texts, with interlinear and free 

 translations, would form a volume of fair size. Some davs were 

 spent b}" Mr Dorsey in the arrangement of the Winnebago 

 texts collected earlier in the winter. 



Dr A. S. Gatschet during the first half of the month remained 

 in Philadeljjhia, and during- this period, as well as during the 

 later portion of the month, he was occu})ied in constructing a 

 vocabulary of the Shawnee language. At the same time the 

 grammatic elements were extracted and arranged. About 

 2,500 terms have already been extracted for the Shawnee 

 vocabularv. 



Mr J. N. B. Hewitt was occupied during the greater part of 

 the mouth in studying the relations between the Shahaptian 

 and Waiilatpuan groups of languages, as well as the relations 



