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been in contact. The purpose of the information is in part to 
enable him to complete his work on the synonymy of these 
Indians, and in part to yield material for two projected mono- 
graphs on the Kiowa. Meantime his bulletin on the “Siouan 
Tribes of the East” has been passing through the printer's 
hands; the page proofs have been revised, and with the excep- 
tion of an index the work is now complete. 
Work in mythology—Myr Frank Hamilton Cushing devoted 
the month to the revision of his paper entitled “Outlines of 
Zuni Creation Myths,” forming part of the Thirteenth Annual 
Report, and to the preparation of an introduction, editorial 
inspection of the matter having indicated the need of such 
supplementary material. 
Mrs Matilda C. Stevenson continued writing her monograph 
on the Zuni, giving especial attention to the arrangement of 
illustrations, the execution of which is now largely completed. 
Work in linguistics—Mr J. Owen Dorsey was occupied for a 
part of the month in the rearrangement of linguistic manu- 
scripts in the fireproof vaults in the office of the Bureau. 
Many of these manuscripts are unique; a large proportion 
represent the work of the regular collaborators of the Bureau, 
but some have been derived from other sources by exchange 
and by donation through the interest in this subject developed 
early in the history of the Bureau. The material is of great 
scientific value, and it is deemed important that it should be 
arranged in readily accessible form in the fireproof vaults and 
that it should be suitably catalogued. Mr Dorsey also aided 
in cataloguing the large collection of photographs, his long 
continued acquaintance with the Indians of the Siouan family 
proving especially useful in this connection. A part of the 
month was devoted to the preparation of material for the 
synonymy of the Siouan stock. 
Dr Albert S$. Gatschet was occupied in the extraction of 
lexic and grammatic elements from his Shawnee manuscripts, 
in which satisfactory progress was made. He also examined 
anumber of linguistic manuscripts submitted to the Bureau by 
correspondents, commonly with a view to publication. 
Mr J. N. B. Hewitt was occupied during most of the month 
in study of the suggested similarities between the Maya and 
