XL BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



PROPERTY 



The property of the Bureau is practically limited to (1) 

 office furniture and apparatus, (2) ethnologic manuscripts 

 and other original records, (3) photographs and drawings 

 of Indian subjects, (4) a working library, (5) collections 

 held temporarily by collaborators for use in research, and 

 (6) undistributed residue of the editions of the Bureau 

 publications. The fiscal year witnessed little change in 

 the amount or value of the office property. The accumu- 

 lation of manuscripts and other records of original work 

 progressed steadily; about a thousand photographic neg- 

 atives, together with several hundred prints and a num- 

 ber of drawings, were added to the collection of illustrative 

 material. The library maintained normal growth chiefly 

 through exchange, and the number of back reports was 

 considerably reduced through the constantly increasing 

 public demand for ethnologic literature. Mr J. Julius 

 Lund continued in charge of the property as custodian. 



NECROLOGY— FRANK FREDERICK HILDER 



On January 21, 1901, the Bureau suffered a grievous 

 loss in the death of Colonel F. F. Hilder, Ethnologic 

 Translator. 



Frank Frederick Hilder, soldier, geographer, and eth- 

 nologist, was born in Hastings, England, in 1836. Edu- 

 cated at Rugby in the approved manner of the times, he 

 afterward graduated from the British military school at 

 Sandhurst, and entered the army as a cornet in early 

 manhood, at a time when the eyes of all England were 

 turned on India. Sent immediately to aid in quelling 

 the Sepoy rebellion, he soon saw service of such severity, 

 and met it with gueh intrepidity, that he was awarded 

 the Indian Mutiny medal, with special -service bars for 

 Delhi and Lucknow. 



It was during this period of his career that Hilder 

 traversed the Indo-Gangetic plain, trod the Himalayan 

 foothills, and visited the provinces and cities of the 



