ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT LV 
During the month, the bulletins by Mr Mooney on the 
‘“Siouan Tribes of the East,” and by Mr Fowke on ‘“‘Archeologice 
Investigations in James and Potomac Valleys” were received 
from the Government Printing Office, and the transmission of 
the part of the edition pertaining to the domestic exchange of 
these bulletins and of that by Dr Franz Boas on “Chinook 
Texts” has been completed, while the distribution of the 
foreign portion of the exchange is well advanced. 
OPERATIONS DURING JUNE 
Field work has been limited to (1) that connected with col- 
lecting objective material for the National Museum by Dr J. 
Walter Fewkes in Arizona, and (2) that of Mr James Mooney, 
who remains in the field in Oklahoma, collecting material for 
a report on Kiowa heraldry and gathermg objective material 
for the Museum. 
Work in Indian hieroglyphics—As during the preceding 
months, Dr Cyrus Thomas has been employed chiefly in the 
preparation of an introduction to the monograph by Mr C. C. 
Royce on ‘Indian Land Cessions,” and thereby his special 
researches on the codices and other inscriptions of the south- 
western portion of the continent have been held largely in 
abeyance. In the preparation of this introduction and in the 
revision of the manuscript with a view to facilitating composi- 
tion, he has made satisfactory progress. An essential part of 
the monograph is a series of maps showing graphically, with 
the highest attainable accuracy, the tracts covered by the 
various land treaties. These maps were drawn originally on 
tracings from the state maps of the General Land Office, so 
far as these extend, and on maps of corresponding scale else- 
where; but, in publishing, it is necessary to reduce the scale 
materially in order that the map plates may be no larger than 
of single-page or double-page size. In many cases the tracts 
transferred by treaty are of such extent as easily to be repre- 
sented on the reduced maps; in other cases the areas are so 
small that proper representation requires a scale as large or 
even larger than that of the original. Accordingly, it has been 
deemed desirable to supplement the state maps by local detail 
