LXII REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY 



wliicli Wdiikl be i*eady for the press were it not deemed well to 

 withhold it for j)ossible modilication, growing out of a change 

 in classiti cation of the northwestern families. Meantime he 

 has made good ],)r()gress in tlie collection and arrangement of 

 the elaborate material for bibliographies of the Mexican fam- 

 ilies. During the moutli the revision of })age ])roofs of the 

 Wakashan bibliography was completed, and tliat document has 

 been stereotyped and sent to the pi-ess. 



Puhlicaiions — The Tenth Annual Report is in the bindery; 

 the Twelfth, including its illustrations, has been printed and is 

 now in the folding room; tlie Eleventh is on the press. Proofs 

 of the process illustrations of the Thirteenth Report have been 

 received and galley proofs of the text are daily expected. The 

 bulletin on "The Maya Year" by Dr Cyrus Thomas has been 

 delivered and the distribution is under way. Mr Pilliuiy's Bib- 

 liography of the Wakashan Languages has been ordered on 

 the press. The bulletin on "Chinook Texts" by Dr Franz Boas 

 is passing through the printer's hands somewhat slowly by 

 reason of tlie highh' technical character of the composition 

 and the limited type available for it, and by reason of the fact 

 that the author tinds it necessary to revise two proofs at his 

 ])resent residence in Chicag'o. Proofs of the illustrations of 

 1 'rofessor Holmes' bulletin on "An Alioriginal (^)uarry in Indian 

 Territory "have been received, and the text will doubtless follow 

 In a few days. The bulletins by Messrs Mooney and Fowke 

 are in the hands of the artist for the final arrangement of 

 illustrations. 



OPEKATIONS DmiNG MAY 



As during preceding months the chief work has been con- 

 tined to the office, field operations being limited to the surveys 

 by Mr Cosmos Mindelefif in the Pueblo covmtry, together with 

 a single field trip by the Ethnologist in Charge. 



Work in sign language — Colonel Garrick Mallery has con- 

 tinued tlie preparation of his monograph on "Gesture Signs and 

 Signals," which is m)W well advanced. In the progress of the 

 work various significant jioints are brought out, which will be 

 duly elaborated iu the final report Among recent results may 



