XXXII BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



America proved invaluable. Before the end of the year 

 a preliminaiy classification was made and mapped ; but it 

 is deemed unwise to submit the matter for publication 

 pending reexamination of various critical points. It has 

 been the good fortune of the Bureau to see its classifica- 

 tion and mapping of the tribes north of Mexico adopted 

 widely, and it is naturally desired that the continua- 

 tion of the work southward shall be equally worthy of 

 acceptance. 



Dr Albert S. Gatschet continued the arrangement of 

 the comparative Algonquian vocabulary, and also carried 

 forward his analysis of the complex structure of the 

 Peoria language. In both directions his progress was 

 considerable and his results of much value, not only as 

 an aid in formulating the linguistic classification above 

 described, but to the collaborators of the Bureau and 

 students generally. 



Dr Franz Boas continued the arrangement of linguistic 

 material for publication at intervals throughout the year. 

 In addition, he revised the proofs of his memoir entitled 

 " Kathlainet Texts," submitted just before the close of 

 the last fiscal year and transmitted for publication in bul- 

 letin form early in the present year. By reason of the 

 highly technical character of the matter, composition was 

 necessarily slow and proof reading laborious; but the 

 matter is now all in type. 



The Natick Dictionary, compiled from the Eliot Indian 

 Bible by the late James Hammond Trumbull (noted in 

 the last report) , is still in the printer's hands, though 

 nearly ready for publication. 



In connection with the collection of Iroquoian myths, 

 Mr Hewitt has continued recording the vocables and 

 working out the grammatic structure of the languages 

 spoken by several Iroquoian tribes. Some of the results 

 of the work appear in his memoir on comparative myth - 

 ology in the Twenty -first Annual Report of the Bureau; 

 others are in condition for incorporation in future reports. 



As already noted, Mr John R. Swanton spent the entire 

 year in collecting linguistic material in British Columbia. 



