VI BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNiJLOG? 



Ill tlie law making appropriation for the ethnologic work, approved 

 June 4, 1897, the title was changcnl to "Ameriean Ethnology"; the 

 designation of the Bureau was inoditied conforinubly, and the Sixteentli 

 report (for lS94-'.t5, issued in 1807) and those of later date l)ear the 

 modified title. From 1895 to 1900 Init a single series was issued l)y 

 tiie Bureau of Ameriean Ethnology, viz, the annual reports. 



In 1900 the Congress authorized the resumption of publication in 

 l)ulletin form by a concurrent resolution, adopted by the House of 

 Representatives on April 7 and ))y the Senate on April 27. This 

 resolution is as follows: 



liesolved by the House of RepreHentaiires {the Senate concun-iiiij), Tliat tliere be i.T-intrd 

 at the Govermnent Printing; OflBce eight thousand copies of any iimtter furiiishuil liy 

 the Director of the Bureau of American Ethnology relating to icsrarches and discov- 

 eries connected with the study of the American al>origincs, the same to be issued as 

 bulletins uniform with the annual rejjorts, one thousand tive hundred of which shall 

 be for the use of the Senate, three thousand for the use of the llcjnse of Representatives, 

 and three thousand five hundred for distribution by the Bureau. 



rursuant to this authority the manuscript of the late Dr J. H. 

 Trumlmirs Js'utick-English and English-Xatick Dictionary was trans- 

 mitted to the Puolie Printer on May 1l'. 1'.»(H). wilh th(> ivcpiest that 

 the same be printed and l)Ound and issued as a IjuUetin imiform with 

 the annual reports of the Bureau of American P^thnology. The eom- 

 position was at once taken up; V)ut by reason of the teehni(uxl character 

 of the matter and unforeseen difficulties in proof reading, the issue of 

 tiiis initial numl)er of the new series lias been unexpectedly delayed. 



It is a pleasure to ticknowledge the courtesy of tl»j American Anti- 

 quarian Society and of its president. Honorable Stephen Salisbury, 

 in intru.sting Dr Trumbuirs unique manuscripts to this Bureau: and 

 it is especially gratifying to express appreciation of the scholarly 

 interest and aid of Dr Edward Everett Hale, who not only efi'ected 

 the arrangement for publication but contributed an introduction 

 to the work. While this introduction was written from the stand- 

 point of the general literary student rather than the specialist in 

 Indian languages and characteristics, it pays a just tribute to the mem- 

 ory of the eminent philologist whose latest, and perhaps greatest, 

 work was that of compiling and comparing the acompanying vocabu- 

 laries from the Eliot Bible. James Hammond Trumbull was 1)orn 

 in Stonington, Connecticut, December 20, 1821: he was a student 

 at Yale, and held important public offices in Hartford during the 

 l)eriod 1847-1861. He was an original meml)er of the American 

 Philological Association in 1869, and its president in 1874 and lS7o; 

 a member of the American Oriental Society, of the American Ethno- 

 logical Socii>ty, and of several other learned societies, including the 

 National Academv of Sciences. In 1873 he was chosen lecturer on 



