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adequate treatment of the subject was possil)le within the 

 limits originally prescribed, consequently the handbook 

 when published will comprise approximately 200 pages. Dr. 

 Kroel^er expects to submit the manuscript in readiness for 

 ])ul)lication in the early part of 1916. 



The "List of Works Relating to Hawaii" has been added 

 to from time to time by the surviving compiler, Prof. Howard 

 M. Ballon, of Honolulu. Mr. Felix Neumann has devoted 

 attention to its editorial revision, but it was found at the 

 close of the year that much work of a mechanical nature 

 remained to be done before plans for publication could be 

 completed. 



MANUSCRIPTS 



As in the past, the valuable collection of manuscripts of the 

 bureau has been in the immediate, custody of Mr. J. N. B. 

 Hewitt, whose work in this direction was considerably in- 

 creased by reason of the necessity of returning the manu- 

 scripts to the newly fireproofed room in the north tower of 

 the Smithsonian building and reclassifying them. For the 

 first time the manuscripts of the bureau, which now number 

 about 1,700 items, many of which are of priceless value, are 

 believed to be safe from possible fire, being contained in 

 steel cases or on steel shelves, surrounded by brick, cement, 

 and terra-cotta walls, floor, and ceiling. In addition to 

 manuscripts submitted for immediate publication or else- 

 where referred to in this report, the following accessions 

 were made during the year: 



Laguna Indian Dictionary. Deposited by the wife and son of the 

 late John B. Dunbar, of Bloomfield, N. J. 



Dr. A. L. Kroeber. Forty-nine Arapaho and Gros Ventre note- 

 books, six packages of slips containing an Arapaho vocabulary, and a 

 carbon copy of a study of Arapalio dialects. 



War record of Sitting Bull, depicted in 55 pictographs, with a 

 letter of authentication. Deposited by Dr. D. S. Lamb, of the Army 

 Medical Museum. 



J. P. Dunn. The third part of the translation of the anonymous 

 Miami-Peoria Dictionary, the original of which is in the John Carter 

 Brown Library at Providence, K. I.; 36 pages, Assumer to Bercer. 



