ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XXV 
Malay languages collected by Dr Thomas. This work is 
laborious, but has been executed with patience and skill in an 
eminently satisfactory manner. A part of the month was 
oceupied in the making and arrangement of translations from 
Pierre Margry in such manner as to permit easy reference. 
Work in bibliography—My Pilling continued the collection 
and arrangement of bibliographic material relating to the 
language of North America south of the United States. His 
progress has been quite satisfactory. A large amount of 
material has been brought together and the final arrangement 
under authors’ names has been carried to the end of the letter 
G. The work has been but slightly retarded by the condition 
of Mr Pillmg’s health, thanks to his untiring energy and 
perseverance. 
Publications—Vhe Eleventh Annual Report was received 
during the month and the distribution is well under way; a 
few copies of the twelfth have been received and distribution 
will be commenced at once; all of the matter of the Thir- 
teenth Annual Report (excepting the introductory portion and 
the index) is in type and nearly all in pages, about half being 
already stereotyped. The material for the fourteenth and 
fifteenth reports is practically ready for the press; but through 
the failure of the Richardson bill to pass, there is no legal 
authority for publication. 
Volume 1x of the Contributions to North American Eth- 
nology has been printed in the Congressional edition and a 
few copies of the Bureau edition have already been received, 
and the preparation of circulars for distribution has been 
commenced. 
Dr Boas’ large bulletin on ‘‘Chinook Texts” is all in pages and 
nearly all stereotyped. Mr Mooney’s bulletin on the “Siouan 
Yribes of the East” is all in pages except the index. Professor 
Holmes’ bulletin on “An Aboriginal Workshop in Indian Ter- 
ritory” is daily expected from the bindery. The bulletin on 
the archeology of the James and Potomac valleys, by Gerard 
Fowke, to which reference has already been made, actually 
reached the Government Printing Office only during this 
month; but composition was at once taken up and the entire 
matter is now in pages, and proofs of the illustrations have 
