XLVIII BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
the mounds of Missouri and the adjoining part of Illinois by 
Colonel F. F. Hilder; still another was a series of stone 
implements from the mounds of northern Ohio, which are 
regarded as especially desirable for purposes of comparative 
study in the National Museum. 
PUBLICATION 
Mr Hodge has remained in charge of the details of publi- 
cation, and it is gratifying to be able to report activity, almost 
beyond precedent in the history of the Bureau, in this branch 
of the work. At the beginning of the year the Fourteenth | 
Annual Report was partly in type, the Fifteenth was in the 
printer’s hands, and proofs of illustrations had been received. 
The Sixteenth Report was in nearly the same condition. The 
editorial work was pushed forward successfully. About the 
end of the calendar year the Fourteenth Report was issued, 
in two volumes, and the distribution was at once commenced. 
The demand for the document was unprecedented, so that the 
edition was practically exhausted within three months. It 
may be observed that this report was more extensively noticed 
and reviewed, both in scientific journals and the ephemeral 
press, than any preceding publication by the Bureau, and that 
the tone of the reviews has been favorable or still more highly 
commendatory, without exception so far as known. Meantime 
the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Reports received constant atten- 
tion, and both were completed and published about the end of 
the fiscal year. The demand for these documents also is 
pressing, and they, too, are being favorably received by the 
reviewers. 
The manuscript of the Seventeenth Annual Report was 
transmitted for publication on June 18, 1897. The accompany- 
ing papers comprise ‘The Seri Indians,” by W J McGee; 
“Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians,” by James Mooney; 
‘Navaho Houses,” by Cosmos Mindeleff; together with a fully 
illustrated account of an ‘Archeological Expedition to Arizona 
in 1895,” by J. Walter Fewkes. 
The material for the Eighteenth Report also was brought 
together, and the editorial work was well advanced before the 
end of the year. It is accompanied by two memoirs, each of 
