XXVI BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
the Californian stocks, to Dr A. L. Kroeber and Dr Roland 
B. Dixon; the Algonquian, Chitimachan, Karankawan, 
Muskhogean, Natchesan, Siouan, and Timuquanan, to Dr 
Cyrus Thomas; the Caddoan, to Miss Alice C. Fletcher; 
and the Kitunahan, to Dr A. F. Chamberlain; while the 
Piman, Yuman, and Pueblo stocks were undertaken per- 
sonally by Mr Hodge. At the close of the year the work 
on these stock and tribal descriptions had been well 
advanced, most of the important as well as a number of 
the smaller linguistic groups being entirely ready for final 
editorial revision. Owing to pressure of other duties, a 
number of the specialists not officially connected with the 
Bureau required more time than was expected, so that 
some of the outstanding matter can not be finished as 
soon as was desired. 
In accordance with the plan of enlargement of the 
scope of the handbook outlined by the Secretary a 
schedule of the anthropologie and other topics of what- 
ever nature thought to be necessary, was prepared; and 
these were assigned to specialists for succinct treatment. 
Those who have been engaged in this part of the work are 
Dr A. F. Chamberlain, Mr Stewart Culin, Miss Alice C. 
Fletcher, Mr J. N.B. Hewitt, Mr F. W. Hodge, Mr W. H. 
Holmes, Dr Walter Hough, Prof. O. T. Mason, Dr 
Washington Matthews, Mr Joseph D. McGuire, Mr James 
Mooney, Dr J. R. Swanton, and Dr Cyrus Thomas. At 
the close of the fiscal year many of the articles were com- 
pleted. 
For several weeks Mr Hodge has been engaged in put- 
ting in final form the first half of the matter of the first 
of the proposed two volumes. The moiety of the Algon- 
quian descriptions (A to M), recorded on about 10,000 
ecards, was more than half revised for the printer by the 
close of June, and material for many more linguistic 
families was awaiting similar editorial treatment. 
