56 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
Mr. Hewitt spent much time and study in the preparation 
of data for official replies to correspondents of the bureau 
and of the Indian Office also, the latter by reference only. 
The scope of the inquiries covers almost the entire range of 
human interest, often quite outside of the specific researches 
properly coming within the activities of the Bureau of 
American Ethnology, but many are only requests for the 
derivation of some alleged native Indian place or proper 
name, often greatly Anglicized and mutilated. Some of 
these inquiries require more than a day’s work to answer, as 
it is sometimes necessary to visit the Congressional Library 
in search of data. Data for more than 75 such inquiries 
were prepared. 
Immediately following the death of the late Mr. James 
Mooney, Mr. Hewitt assisted Mrs. Mooney in assorting and 
separating the personal letters and papers of Mr. Mooney, 
some in advanced stages of preparation (the accumulation 
of more than 30 years’ activity in an official capacity), from 
those which by their nature are official documents, and corre- 
spondence and photographs. More than a week was devoted 
to this work. 
Before placing this material in the new storeroom a rough 
classification was made of it. Five main groups were made, 
corresponding roughly with the five chief papers which Mr. 
Mooney had under way for a number of years before his 
demise, namely, (a) A Study of the Peyote and Its Accom- 
panying Religious Cult; (b) A Monograph on the Popula- 
tion of the Indian Tribes When First Known; (c) A Paper 
on Cherokee Medical Formulas Recorded in the Sequoya 
Alphabet by Native Priests; (d) Kiowa Heraldry; and (e) 
A Study of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Shields. Owing to 
the peculiar chirography cof Mr. Mooney and his excessive 
use of abbreviations peculiar to himself, this task proved to 
be a most tedious and difficult one. 
Mr. Hewitt, who represents the Smithsonian Institution 
on the United States Geographic Board, attended all its 
regular meetings except one, and all the special meetings of 
the board, 
