LXVIII REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY 



collection of Winnebago texts and tlie free English translation 

 of the texts, making satisfactorv progress. In addition, he 

 prepared a list of ethnologic manuscripts relating to Indian 

 languages, including a considei'able pai't of the linguistic mate- 

 rial in the archives of the Bureau. 



Dr A. S. Gatschet continued the preparation of the Shawnee 

 dictionary, giving especial attention to comparisons between 

 this dialect and forty or fifty other dialects of the Algonquian. 

 He calls attention to tlie astoni.shing multiplicity of the Algon- 

 quian dialectal forms and points out that, while the linguistic 

 stock rests on a purely nominal basis morpliologically, the dia- 

 lectic diversification is great. Other interesting features of 

 these languages have received attention. 



Mr J. N. B. Hewitt continued the transliteration of Tarahu- 

 mari and Tubari material collected by Dr Carl Lumholtz, with 

 a view to publication, at least of the latter, in bulletin form. 



Work in hihJlographu — Mr James C Pilling spent the month 

 in arranging material for bibliographies of the s<5uthwestern 

 languages in and contiguous to Mexico. The alphabetic 

 arrangement of the material has now progressed to the end 

 of the letter R, the notes and collations having been made as 

 complete as j^ossible with the information at hand. He ex^ 

 presses acknowledgment to Bishop Hurst, whose rich library 

 contains much material collected by missionaries and others 

 relating to the Indian languages. 



I'lihlicaf/on-s — The Eleventh and Twelfth Annual reports are 

 still in the binderv, but well advanced, and the editions 

 are looked for daily; nearly a third of the Tliirteenth An- 

 nual is in pages; the material for the Fourteenth Annual is 

 ready and onl}' awaits the passage by the Senate of the con- 

 current resolution authorizing publication, this resolution hav- 

 ing already' passed the House. Material for the Fifteenth 

 Annual is in liand and practically ready for the press when- 

 ever publication is authorized. Dr Boas' voluminous bulletin 

 on "Chinook Texts" is still passing through the printer's hands, 

 96 pages being- stereotyped. The proofs of text and plates of 

 Professor Holmes' bulletin on an aboriginal ijuarrv have been 

 approved and ordered stereotyped and printed. Bulletins by 

 Messrs Mooney and Fowke have been sent forward and recom- 

 mended for publication. Volume ix of the Contributions to 



