34 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
ship of Dr. Franz Boas, as elsewhere stated, with the re- 
sult that two sections, comprising 418 pages, dealing with 
the Takelma and Coos languages, are in substantially 
final form. 
Toward the close of the year steps were taken to ad- 
vance the work on Bulletin 46, Byington’s Choctaw Dic- 
tionary, edited by Dr. John R. Swanton. 
Considerable time was given to the editing and proof 
reading of Bulletin 52, Early Man in South America, 
by AleS Hrdli¢éka, in collaboration with W. H. Holmes, 
Bailey Willis, Fred. Eugene Wright, and Clarence N. 
Fenner. At the close of June the work was nearly 
through press. 
The last bulletin to receive attention was No. 53— 
Chippewa Music—II, by Frances Densmore. Substan- 
tial progress on the preparation of the author’s material 
for the press had been made at the close of the fiscal year. 
The demand for the publications of the bureau econ- 
tinues to increase, and their distribution, numbering 
15,003 copies during the year, necessitated extended cor- 
respondence. The distribution of the bureau publications 
has been under the immediate care of Miss Helen Munroe 
and Mr. E. L. Springer, of the Smithsonian Institution. 
A coneurrent resolution authorizing the reprinting of 
the Handbook of American Indians was introduced in the 
Senate and passed on May 11, 1912, and subsequently was 
favorably reported by the Committee on Printing of the 
House of Representatives, but it had not been passed at 
the close of the fiscal year. 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
The preparation of the illustrations for the publications 
of the bureau and the photographing of the members of 
visiting delegations of Indians were conducted under the 
charge of Mr. De Lancey Gill, illustrator. In connection 
with this work 90 photographic negatives of Indians and 
123 of ethnologic subjects were prepared; 196 films ex- 
posed by members of the bureau in the field were devel- 
