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gation of the languages of the tribes comprising the former 

 Illinois confederacy, to await the completion of the copy- 

 ing of the anonpnous manuscriiDt Miami-French Diction- 

 ary, attributed to Pere Joseph Ignatius Le Boulanger, in 

 the John Carter Brown Library at Providence, Rhode 

 Island. Through the courteous permission of Mr. George 

 Parker Wiuship, librarian, the bureau has been enabled to 

 commence the copying of this manuscript, the difficult task 

 being assigned to Miss Margaret Bingham Stillwell, under 

 Mr. Winship's immediate direction. At the close of the 

 fiscal year 20i pages of the original (comprising 95 pages 

 of transcript), of the total of 155 pages of the dictionary 

 proper, were finished and submitted to the bureau. It is 

 hoped that on the completion of the copying the bureau 

 will have a basis for the study of the Miami and related 

 languages that would not be j^ossible among the greatly 

 modified remnant of the Indians still speaking them. 



Prof. Howard M. Ballou, of Honolulu, has continued 

 the preparation of the List of Works Relating to Hawaii, 

 undertaken in collaboration with the late Dr. Cyrus 

 Thomas, and during the year submitted the titles of many 

 early publications, including those of obscui*e books printed 

 in the Hawaiian language. 



Mr. John P. Harrington, of the School of American 

 Archc'eology, proceeded in March to the Colorado Valley 

 in Arizona and California for the purpose of continuing 

 his studies, commenced a few years before, among the 

 Mohave Indians, and incidentally to make collections for 

 the United States National Museum. Mr. Harrington was 

 still among these Indians at the close of July, and the re- 

 sults of his studies, which cover every phase of the life of 

 this interesting people, are to be placed at the disj)osal of 

 the bui'eau for publication. 



PUBLICATIONS 



The general editorial work of the bureau continued in 

 immediate charge of Mr. J. G. Gurley, editor. The editing 

 of Part 2 of Bulletin 30, Handbook of American Indians, 



