XXXVl HUREAr OK AMERICAN ETHNOLOdY 



Yet it is a gratificatiou to report that the interest of the col- 

 laborators, who have worked gTatuitously or foi- only nominal 

 compensation, has resulted in a large volume of invaluable 

 material amassed at trifling cost to tlie Bureau. It is a 

 pleasure to acknowledge the generous contributions of Dr 

 Boas and the other collaborators named. 



During the year Dr Boas completed the proof revision of 

 liis memoir entitled Kathlamet Texts, and it has been pub- 

 lished as a bulletin. He also completed the manuscript for a 

 similar memoir entitled Tsimshian Texts, and it was transmitted 

 for publication on January 29, 1902. 



Dr Albert S. Gatschet carried forward to substantial com- 

 pletion his vocabulary and grammar of the Peoria language, 

 and also continued the arrangement of material for the com- 

 parative Algonquian vocabulary. In addition, he devoted 

 some time to special researches required for answering some 

 of the numerous requests for information concerning Indian 

 terms and phrases constantly received from correspondents. 



Mr J. N. B. Hewitt devoted the greater part of the year to 

 his monograph on Iroquois Creation Myths, mentioned in 

 previous reports; three of the five sections were sent to press 

 during the year as a part of the Twenty-first Annual Report. 

 Toward the close of the year he took up the general discussion 

 of principles noted in another paragraph; and, as a part of the 

 current work, he continued the extraction and arrangement of 

 Iroquoian linguistic material in a form suitable for reference 

 and eventually for publication. Throughout the year a con- 

 siderable part of Mr. Hewitt's time was occupied in the 

 researches required for answering technical inquiries from cor- 

 respondents — a duty which seems unavoidable, although its 

 performance retards progress in systematic researches. 



Miss Jessie E. Thomas continued the transcription of the 

 manuscript Diccionario de Motul, while Seiior Andomaro 

 ^Molina, of Merida, Yucatan, made good progress in the trans- 

 lation of the Maya and Spanish terms into English, with a view 

 to the issue of this extensive vocabulary in a form appropriate 

 to the publications of the Bureau. In view of the prospective 

 value of this work to future students it would seem important 



