ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XXIX 
Bureau, and after serving their purposes for study and 
illustration have been transferred to the United States 
National Museum, where they have been recorded and 
properly accredited to the Bureau. 
During the year important collections have been made, 
as follows: Archeological collection from Santo Domingo 
and Porto Rico, by Dr J. W. Fewkes, 1,210 specimens; 
archeological collection from an aboriginal hematite mine 
in Missouri, by Mr W.H. Holmes and Mr Gerard Fowke, 
160 specimens; collection of flint implements from Indi- 
ana and Kentucky, by Mr Gerard Fowke, many thou- 
sands of specimens; ethnological collection from Zuni 
pueblo, New Mexico, by Mrs M. C. Stevenson, 220 speci- 
mens. These have been transferred to the National 
Museum, together with numerous other collections found 
in the Bureau offices and in storage. The latter include a 
large collection from the Maine coast shell-heaps, made by 
Mr F. H. Cushing, 3,058 specimens; an important collec - 
tion of ethnological material from the Pima Indians of - 
Arizona, made by Dr Frank Russell, 324 specimens; and 
numerous small collections and single specimens. These 
collections are accompanied with all available data relating 
to them, and are so placed in the Museum as to be con- 
venient for study. 
MANUSCRIPTS 
Of peculiar value and interest are the manuscripts 
brought together in the archives of the Bureau. They 
number upward of 1,600, and relate chiefly to the Indian 
languages. Of these documents 332 were transferred by 
the Smithsonian Institution to the Bureau on its organi- 
zation; many have been presented to the Bureau since 
that time, a large number have been purchased from 
their authors, while many others have been prepared 
by employees of the Bureau, and, being fragmentary or 
not fully elaborated, have been filed for future comple- 
tion and for reference. A valuable body of linguistic 
