LX BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
exceptionally full and comprehensive. Examination of the 
records indicates that the empiric classification, or the classifi- 
cation based on a limited number of attributes, is unsatisfac- 
tory, and it seems desirable to formulate a classification so 
comprehensive as to apply at the same time to all of the abo- 
rigines of the Western Hemisphere and to be equally applicable 
to mankind in general. The researches of the Director con- 
cerning classifie attributes are accordingly extended; already 
results of great utility to the Bureau have flowed from the 
work, and there is a promise of still more useful results in the 
early future. 
Sociology—In addition to administrative and editorial work, 
Mr McGee has been employed in researches relating to the 
sociology of the American Indians. During the aiorith he 
examined and revised for publication the memoir on ‘ Siouan 
Sociology,” prepared by the late J. Owen Dorsey. 
Publication— The Thirteenth Annual Report is stereotyped, 
with the exception of the index and the brief administrative 
report forming the first division of the document. 
The Fourteenth Annual Report, transmitted for printing 
during May, is in the hands of the Public Printer, and the 
illustrations have been examined with a view to making con- 
tracts for reproduction. 
The Fifteenth Annual Report was transmitted for printing 
on June 14. It comprises a memoir on “Stone Implements,” 
as developed among the aborigines of the Potomac-Chesapeake 
region, by W. H. Holmes; a memoir on the “ Siouan Indians,” 
by W J McGee; another on ‘‘Siouan Sociology,” by the late 
J. Owen Dorsey, and a memoir on ‘“Tusayan Katcinas,” by 
J. Walter Fewkes. In his discussion of stone art, Professor 
Holmes, while describing the form and distribution of the art 
products, devotes especial attention to the primitive quarries 
and modes of quarrying, and to the processes of manufacture 
of the various articles of stone used by the Indians. Thus he 
is able to set forth the history of each class of art produets in 
a remarkably satisfactory manner. It is believed that through 
this method of study of stone art in sequence, as well as iy 
single stage, American are heology has been raised to a higher 
