﻿OF 
  THE 
  BUREAU 
  OF 
  ETHNOLOGY. 
  XXXI 
  

  

  of 
  the 
  district 
  before 
  .specified. 
  He 
  also 
  finished 
  a 
  paper 
  pub- 
  

   lished 
  in 
  the 
  Sixth 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  this 
  Bureau 
  under 
  the 
  

   title, 
  "Aids 
  to 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  Maya 
  Codices," 
  and 
  a 
  special 
  

   report 
  on 
  the 
  "Burial 
  mounds 
  of 
  the 
  northern 
  sections 
  of 
  the 
  

   United 
  States." 
  The 
  latter 
  has 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  Fifth 
  Annual 
  

   Report 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau. 
  

  

  Mrs. 
  V. 
  L. 
  Thomas, 
  in 
  addition 
  to 
  her 
  duties 
  as 
  clerk, 
  has 
  

   been 
  employed 
  in 
  preparing 
  a 
  catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  ancient 
  Avorks 
  

   in 
  that 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  Rocky 
  Mountains. 
  

   This 
  catalogue, 
  now 
  nearly 
  complete, 
  is 
  intended 
  to 
  give 
  the 
  

   localities 
  and 
  character 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  antiquities 
  in 
  the 
  region 
  men- 
  

   tioned, 
  including 
  discoveries 
  which 
  have 
  been 
  noted 
  in 
  publi- 
  

   cations, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  those 
  mentioned 
  in 
  the 
  renorts 
  of 
  work 
  done 
  

   under 
  the 
  Bureau. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  James 
  C 
  Pilling 
  continued 
  to 
  give 
  a 
  large 
  share 
  of 
  his 
  

   time 
  and 
  attention 
  throughout 
  the 
  year 
  to 
  the 
  "Bibliography 
  

   of 
  the 
  lanffuaeres 
  of 
  the 
  North 
  American 
  Indians," 
  which 
  has 
  

   been 
  adverted 
  to 
  in 
  previous 
  reports. 
  The 
  advance 
  "proof- 
  

   sheets" 
  of 
  this 
  work, 
  printed 
  in 
  the 
  last 
  fiscal 
  year, 
  were 
  dis- 
  

   tributed 
  to 
  collaborators 
  and 
  have 
  been 
  the 
  means 
  of 
  obtaining 
  

   the 
  active 
  cooperation 
  of 
  many 
  persons 
  throughout 
  this 
  and 
  

   other 
  countries 
  who 
  are 
  interested 
  in 
  linguistic 
  and 
  biblio- 
  

   graphic 
  science. 
  They 
  have 
  thus 
  elicited 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  

   additions, 
  corrections, 
  suggestions, 
  and 
  criticisms, 
  all 
  of 
  which 
  

   have 
  received 
  careful 
  consideration. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Frank 
  H. 
  Cushing 
  was 
  engaged 
  in 
  the 
  preparation, 
  from 
  

   the 
  large 
  amount 
  of 
  Zuni 
  material 
  collected 
  by 
  him 
  during 
  

   several 
  years, 
  of 
  papers 
  upon 
  the 
  language, 
  mythology, 
  and 
  

   institutions 
  of 
  that 
  people. 
  

  

  Mrs. 
  Erminnie 
  A. 
  Smith 
  continued 
  her 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquoian 
  

   languages. 
  The 
  first 
  part 
  of 
  her 
  final 
  contribution 
  on 
  the 
  sub- 
  

   ject 
  was 
  intended 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  Tuscarora 
  grammar 
  and 
  dictionary. 
  

   The 
  first 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  dictionary 
  Avas 
  completed, 
  and 
  had 
  

   been 
  forwarded 
  to 
  the 
  Bureau 
  when 
  her 
  sudden 
  and 
  lamented 
  

   death 
  occurred 
  on 
  June 
  9, 
  1886, 
  at 
  her 
  home 
  in 
  Jersey 
  City. 
  

   Her 
  former 
  assistant, 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  N. 
  B. 
  Hewitt, 
  of 
  Tuscarora 
  de- 
  

   scent, 
  has 
  been 
  engaged 
  to 
  complete 
  the 
  work 
  she 
  so 
  success- 
  

   fully 
  began, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  expected 
  that 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  her 
  long 
  

   labors 
  in 
  the 
  field 
  will 
  be 
  published 
  without 
  delay. 
  

  

  