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by members of the staff. Among these may be mentioned 
the “Dictionary of Words that have been Made Known in 
or Introduced into English from the Indians of North, 
Central, and South America,” by the late William R. Gerard, 
a work requiring many years of assiduous labor. The manu- 
script was acquired for a nominal consideration from Mrs. 
Gerard, and it is the design to publish the dictionary as 
soon as it can be given the customary editorial attention. 
Before his death Mr. Gerard presented to the bureau an 
original manuscript of 81 pages, with 21 diagrams, on 
“Terminations of the Algonquian Transitive and Indefinite 
Verbs and their Meanings,” to which Dr. Truman Michelson 
has appended a criticism. 
Additional manuscripts worthy of special note are the 
following: p 
J. P. Dunn: Translation of Miami-Peoria Dictionary, Part 2, Aller 
to Assomer. The original of this dictionary is in the John Carter 
Brown Library, of Providence, through whose courteous librarian, 
Mr. George Parker Winship, the bureau has been provided with a pho- 
tostat copy. 
J. P. Dunn: Translation of the History of Genesis, second chapter, 
from the Miami-Peoria Dictionary above cited. 
Cyrus Byington: Manuscript notebook, 1844-1848 and 1861. 
Kindly presented by Mrs. Eliza Innes, daughter of this noted mission- 
ary to the Choctaw. 
James A. Gilfillan: Chippewa Sentences. A small quarto notebook 
kindly presented by Miss Emily Cook, of the Office of Indian Affairs. 
Parker Marshall: Various memoranda on the location of the 
Natchez Trace. 
H. A. Scomp: Comparative Choctaw and Creek Dictionary, con- 
sisting of 1,054 sheets, 20 by 36 inches. 
Francisco Pareja: Confessionario, in Spanish and Timuqua. Pho- 
tostat copy furnished by the courtesy of the New York Historical 
Society. 
Francisco Pareja: Catechismo, in Timuqua. Photostat copy fur- 
nished by the courtesy of the New York Historical Society. 
Francisco Pareja: Explicacion de la Doctrina, in Timuqua. Pho- 
tostat copy furnished by the courtesy of the New York Historical 
Society. 
V. C. Fredericksen: Origin of the Eskimo and their Wanderings, 
with photographs. (The author is a Danish missionary in Green- 
land.) 
