ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT BY 
lighting. In addition to the space previously occupied, a 
room on the fourth floor of the eastern end of the Smith- 
sonian building was assigned temporarily to the bureau for 
the use of two members of its staff. 
Office force-——The personnel of the office has remained 
unchanged, with the exception of the resignation of one 
messenger boy and the appointment of another. It has 
been necessary to employ a copyist from time to time in 
connection with the editing of Byington’s Choctaw Dic- 
tionary. The correspondence of the bureau has been con- 
ducted in the same manner as set forth in the last annual 
report and as hereinbefore mentioned. 
RECOMMENDATIONS 
The chief needs of the Bureau of American Ethnology lie 
in the extension of its researches to fields as yet unexploited. 
Attention has frequently been called to the necessity of 
pursuing studies among Indian tribes which are rapidly 
becoming extinct, or modified by their intimate contact with 
civilization. These researches can not be conducted unless 
the means are provided, since the present limited scientific 
corps, with inadequate allotments of money to meet the 
expenses of extended field investigations, is not equal to the 
immense amount of work to be done. Unfortunately many 
opportunities for conducting these researches which were 
possible a few years ago have passed away, owing to the 
death of older Indians who alone possessed certain knowledge 
of their race. Much can still be done, however, if only the 
means are afforded. 
It is scarcely necessary to repeat, in connection with this 
general recommendation, the estimate for an increase, 
amounting to $24,800, in the appropriation for the bureau 
and the brief reasons for urging the grant of this additional 
sum, inasmuch as these items will be found in the printed 
Estimates of Appropriations, 1915-16. 
F. W. Hopes, 
Ethnologist-in-Charge. 
