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should be made as nearly fireproof as possible. Requests 

 for a small appropriation to jjrotect the manuscripts 

 against possible destruction have been made in the past, 

 but imf ortunately the means have not been granted. The 

 manuscripts, which have been in the immediate care of 

 Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, have increased from time to time 

 during the year, chiefly by the temporary deposit of mate- 

 rials preparatory to editing for publication. Mention 

 may here be made, however, of the gift of some manuscript 

 Chippewa letters from the Rev. Joseph A. Gilfillan, and 

 the acquirement of a photostat copy of the Motul-Maya 

 Dictionary, made at the expense of the bureau from the 

 original in the John Carter Brown Library, at Providence, 

 R. I., as elsewhere noted. Mention may also be made of 

 various vocabularies or parts of vocabularies, 23 items in 

 all, wliicli were restored to the bureau by Mrs. Louisa H. 

 Gatschet. who found them among Dr. Gatschet's effects. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Quarters. — Since the beginning of 1910 the offices of the 

 bureau have occupied nine rooms in the north tower of 

 the Smithsonian Building, and a room (the office of the 

 ethnologist in charge) on the north side of the third floor 

 of the eastern wing, while the library has occupied the 

 entire eastern gallery of the large exhibition hall on the 

 first floor, and the photographic laboratory part of the 

 gallery in the southeastern section of the old National 

 Museum building. While the natural lighting of the 

 I'ooms in the north tower, by reason of the thickness of 

 the walls and the narrowness of the windows, is inade- 

 quate, and the distance from the library and the photo- 

 graphic laboratory makes them not readily accessible, the 

 office facilities are far better than when the bureau was 

 housed in cramped rented quarters. Aside from the 

 photographic laboratory and one room in the north tower, 

 no part of the bureau's quarters is provided with running 

 water. It is presumed that after the rearrangement of 

 the large exhibition hall in the Smithsonian Building and 



