ADMINISTHATIVK KKl'uHT XXXMI 



that the liiuil transUitioii should he Itascd <>ii tlionniu-l, ;,,„1 

 critical knowledge of the Maya, 8])anisli, and KiiL-lisli lan- 

 guages; and, having regard to tlic d.'sirahility ot' this and i.. 

 the fact that Seilor ;^^olina is a volunteer collahorator resident 

 in another country, it is deemed proper to insert the following: 

 voluntary expression from the United Stat<'s eonsnl at I'ro- 

 greso, Yucatan, ^Ir Edward II. Thompson, himself a critical 

 student of the antiquities, history, and languages of Vu<'atan: 

 "To my mind, in the work of the Licentiate Andomaro. Molina, 

 the Bureau has done the best work of the year and has done it 

 in the best possible way. It has arranged to "give to light and 

 study a much-needed Avork, and it has put it in the \er\ hands 

 best fitted to do it I am, perhaps, competent to sjteak upon 

 this subject, and I am willing to place on record my belief 

 that no livino' man could have this work intrusted to him so w«'ll 

 as Mr Molina. The work that he is doing can ni»t be done by 

 a foreigner. I am, perhaps, as well informed upon the native 

 Maya, their habits, customs, etc, as any living foreigner, and, 

 it may be, better than any other. 1 know enough to know 

 that I could not do the work as it should be done. Thi> task 

 should only be undertaken by one who has been brought up 

 on milk from a native breast, whose first words were in .Maya, 

 and whose thoughts come easier to him when clothe(l in the 

 Maya form than in classic Castilian or downright Anglo-Saxon, 

 Such a man is Molina. To the instincts and the education ot* 

 a scholar he adds the subtile understanding of the native and 

 as perfect conunaud of the ancient language, the Maya, as any 

 man can have at this day." 



The final proofs of tlie Natick Dictionary, comi.iled by the 

 late James Hammond Trumbull, were revised .hn-ing the year, 

 and the greater part of the sheets have been i.rinte.l. 



In addition to his work on the Mexican an.l Central Amen- 

 can hnguistic records, Ur Cyrus Thomas, in innnediate col- 

 laboration with the Director, continued his investigation ot 

 aboriginal records preserved in the tV>rms <.t c..d.ces, sculptures, 

 etc. His work was productive, yielding among other results 

 a memoir entitled Mayan Calendar Systems, winch was ..cut 

 to press as a part of the Twenty-second Annual Kep'"''- 



