XVI BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
been received. A “List of Publications” of the Bureau was 
prepared by Mr Hodge and was transmitted during the month 
for publication as a bulletin, and this matter also has been 
composed and the proofs have been revised. 
It is a painful duty to record the tragic death in New York 
on September 6 of Dr Hilborne T. Cresson, a correspondent 
and informal collaborator of the Bureau. For some years Dr 
Cresson had been engaged in researches on the western Gulf 
coast, chiefly in Guatemala and Mexico, under the provision of 
the De Laincel fund, the Director being one of the board 
of advisers with respect to the expenditure of the fund. 
Although no formal appointment was ever given to Dr Cres- 
son, he was supplied with stationery by the Bureau and in 
other ways was afforded facilities, particularly during his jour- 
neys. For some months previous to his death he had been 
engaged in the elaboration of his observations with a view to 
publication, 
OPERATIONS DURING SEPTEMBER 
The work of the month has been conducted chiefly in the 
office, the field work being limited to the closing of Mr Cos- 
mos Mindeleff’s surveys and researches in the pueblo region 
of the southwest and the initiation of explorations among the 
Papago Indians in southern Arizona and about the Mexican 
frontier. These operations have been placed under the con- 
duct of the Ethnologist in Charge, who, with his assistant, 
Mr Wilham Dinwiddie, left Washington for Gallup, New 
Mexico, September 19. 
Work in sign language—As during previous months, Colonel 
Garrick Mallery was engaged in the preparation of his report 
on Indian sign language. Attention was given to the comple- 
tion of illustrative matter for the final report, the preparation 
of the text of which is being successfully carried forward. 
Work in Indian hieroglyphics—Dr Cyrus Thomas returned 
during September to his work on the day and month symbols 
and names of the Central American calendar, having com- 
pleted his excursion into a collateral line of research for the 
purpose of reviewing the data of the relationship of the Maya 
