ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 



ilies, and the work is far advanced. All the cards of the 

 original catalogue have been copied in duplicate. 



Previous to the death of Maj. J. W. Powell, late 

 Director of this Bureau, the linguistic data, chiefly Sho- 

 shonean, collected personally by him in the field, were 

 not placed in the archives of the office ; but since that 

 time this material has been incorporated with the official 

 manuscripts of the Bureau. A xiortiou of it has not yet 

 been catalogued. 



Mr Hewitt has lieen called on to do considerable work 

 on the Irocpioian family for the Handbook of Indian 

 Tribes, and much of the correspondence of the Bureau 

 relating to linguistics has been placed in his hands. 



During the year Dr Cyrus Thomas, ethnologist, was 

 engaged mainly on the Handbook of Indian Tribes, under 

 the direction of Mr F. W. Hodge. The work consisted 

 in preparing for final editing some of the families not 

 finished at the commencement of the year and in reex- 

 amining the cards that had been previously passed over 

 (to N) for the purpose of inserting any omitted titles 

 and cross references. During the early part of the 

 year considerable time was devoted by Doctor Thomas 

 to the reading of final proofs of his second paper on 

 the Mayan Calendar Systems, which is to apj^ear in the 

 Twenty -second Annual Report. 



Dr A. S. Gratschet was engaged during the year in his 

 linguistic work, mainly on the Algonquian texts, and some 

 advance has been made in the compilation of the diction - 

 ary and grammar of the Peoria language. In addition, 

 Doctor Gatschet was called on for information in his par- 

 ticular field for correspondents of the Bureau. 



SPECIAL RESEARCHES AND WORK 



Under the direction of Dr Franz Boas, honorary phi- 

 lologist of the Bureau, considerable progress has been made 

 in the preparation of the Handbook of American Lan - 

 guages. Doctor Boas has not been rhle to devote any 

 great portion of his own time to the work during the year, 



