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Photostat copy of "A Grammar of the Pottewatomy Language," 

 by Rev. Maurice Gailland, the original of which is in possession of 

 St. Mary's College at St. Marys, Kans.; 452 pages. 



Note should here be made of the great usefulness of the 

 photostat apparatus acquired by the bureau during the last 

 fiscal 3'ear, which has enabled the photographic copying at 

 slight cost of various manuscripts, field notes, and rare books 

 and pamphlets needed for reference in the researches of the 

 bureau. These copies have been made in the photographic 

 laboratory of the bureau by Mr. Albert Sweeney, assistant 

 to Mr. De Lancey Gill, illustrator. 



PUBLICATIONS 



The editorial work of the bureau has been continued by 

 Mr. J. G. Gurley, editor, who from time to time has been 

 assisted by Mrs. Frances S. Nichols. The publications 

 issued during the year were: 



Bulletin 46. "Byington's Choctaw Dictionar}-," edited by John 

 R. Swan ton and Henry S. Halbert. 



Bulletin 58. "List of Publications of the Bureau," which ap- 

 peared in August, 1914, with a second impression in May, 1915. 



Miscellaneous publications: 



No. 10. Circular of Information Regarding Indian Popular Names. 



No. 11. Map of Linguistic Families of American Indians North of 

 Mexico. This map, which is a revision of the Unguistic map pub- 

 lished in Bulletin 30 (Handbook of American Indians), was repi'inted 

 in advance from the plate in the report on "Indian Population in 

 the United States and Alaska," subsequently published by the 

 Bureau of the Census. 



No. 12. List of Indian words denoting "man," prepared in placard 

 form for use in the Smithsonian exhibit at the Panama-Pacific 

 Exposition. 



The status of other publications now in press is as follows : 



Twenty-ninth annual report. The "accompanying paper" of this 

 report is "The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians," by J. P. 

 Harrington, a work presenting many technical difficulties. The 

 solution of these was retarded by the illness of the author, which 

 resulted in his incapacity for several months to deal with the various 

 questions arising in connection with the text. The reading of the 

 proof has been carried forward as rapidly as circumstances would 



