ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT L.XXIII 
The importance of linguistic researches has been recognized 
in the Bureau of American Ethnology from the outset, and 
much labor has been expended in the collection of linguistic 
literature as a basis for the classification of the tribes and also 
as a means for still further extending the principles of ethnic 
classification. 
During the last fiscal year this branch of the work has been 
carried forward continuously by Dr Albert 8. Gatschet and 
Mr J. N. B. Hewitt, and during a part of the year by the 
Director and Mr J. Owen Dorsey. 
The work of the Director in linguistics during the year 
was largely ancillary to the researches in psychology and in 
anthropologic classification. In this connection portions of the 
rich store of linguistic manuscripts were examined, and the prin- 
ciples of linguistic development were formulated for the use of 
the collaborators. 
Mr J. Owen Dorsey was occupied during July in (1) the 
preparation of a catalog of the Teton-Dakota manuscripts by 
Messrs Bushotter and Bruyier, in possession of the Bureau, 
and (2) the continuation of his work on the Winnebago 
texts and dictionary slips, noted in previous reports. During 
August the first of these lines of work was completed, and he 
then rearranged the linguistic manuscripts in the fireproof 
vaults of the Bureau. Many of these manuscripts are unique. 
A large proportion represent the work of the regular collab- 
orators of the Bureau, but several have been derived from 
other sources by exchange or by donation, through the interest 
in the subject developed early in the history of the Bureau. 
The material is of great scientific value, and it is deemed im- 
portant that it should be arranged in readily accessible form, 
in connection with a suitable catalog. On completing this 
task, Mr Dorsey resumed the preparation of material for the 
synonymy of the Siouan stock, in connection with which 
he prepared during November a brief memoir on “«Siouan 
Sociology,” which was afterward revised by Mr McGee for 
incorporation in the Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau. 
During December Mr Dorsey’s work was interrupted by 
illness, which, to the great loss of science, terminated fatally. 
