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during August—the collection of additional material relating 
to the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache tribes for use in com- 
pleting the synonymy of these Indians, and for the purpose 
also of acquiring data for two projected monographs on the 
Kiowa. 
Work in mythology—-Mr Frank Hamilton Cushing was 
engaged during the earlier portion of September in the com- 
pletion of an introduction to his paper entitled ‘Outlines of 
Zuni Creation Myths,” which forms a part of the Thirteenth 
Annual Report of the Bureau. 
Mrs Matilda C. Stevenson continued during the month the 
preparation of text and the arrangement of illustrative mate- 
rial for her forthcoming monograph on the Zuni Indians of 
western New Mexico. 
Work in linguistics—As during previous months, Dr Albert 
S. Gatschet was occupied in the work of extracting his field 
notes on Shawnee for the completion of a projected grammar 
of the language. Some attention was given also to the 
arrangement of material for a Shawnee lexicon and an ethno. 
graphic sketch. Dr Gatschet also continued his comparative 
studies of the phonetics, grammar, etymology, and syntaxis of 
all the Algonquian languages. ‘The Algonquian comparative 
vocabulary was materially increased during the month. 
Mr J. N. B. Hewitt was engaged throughout the month in 
analyzing the conceptual and other stems composing the com- 
parative lists of Maya and Malayan vocables submitted for 
investigation by Dr Thomas. Progress in this work is neces- 
sarily slow by reason of the imperfect character of our knowl- 
edge of Maya word formation, the untrustworthiness of some 
of the authorities, and the necessity of translating the matter 
used from the original French and Spanish. Mr Hewitt also 
gave attention to the preparation of a complete catalog by 
author, unit, and category of the manuscripts in the archives 
of the Bureau. 
Work in bibliography—Mr James C. Pilling reports that 
during September he continued work on the preparation of 
material to form the basis of a series of bibliographies of the 
languages of the southern portion of North America. Good 
