XXXVIII ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 
of the more important stocks of North American languages. 
As stated in the last report, the manuscript for the Siouan bib- 
liography, the second of the series, was sent to the printer 
late in the fiscal year 1886-87. The proof was read during 
the summer months and the work was received from the Pub- 
lic Printer in November. Work was then begun on the Iro- 
quoian stock of languages, and at the close of the fiscal year 
that bibliography was ready for printing. Some preliminary 
work was also done on the Muskhogean bibliography. Late 
1 December Mr. Pilling made a visit to the library of the 
Historic al Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, for the 
purpose of inspecting and taking descriptions of several im- 
portant manuscripts, temporarily there, written by Moravian 
missionaries on Indian languages and permanently preserved 
in the Moravian archives at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and 
Fairfield, Canada. 
Mr. JamEs Mooney, when not in the field, continued to be 
charged with the synonymy relating to the Iroquoian and Al- 
gonquian linguistic stocks, and also worked upon the vocabu- 
laries, myths, and notes of information procured by him from 
the northern Cherokee. 
Mr. Cyrus THomas during the entire year has been busily en- 
gaged upon his report, before mentioned, except at short inter- 
vals when he visited the field to make personal observations. 
The manuscript for the first volume of that report with the 
illustrations was presented for publication about a month be- 
fore the close of the fiscal year. Work upon the manuscript, 
illustrations, and maps for the second volume was continued. 
Mr. Henry L. Reynoups was at Washington from Decem- 
ber until the close of the fiscal year, occupied in the prepara- 
tion of maps, plates, and diagrams for the report last mentioned. 
Mr. Gerrard Fowker was engaged during the winter and un- 
til the Ist of May, 1888, in preparing a paper for a report on 
the articles of stone in the Bureau collections. 
Mr. Wruuiam H. Houmes has had charge of the illustrations 
intended for the Bureau publications, as in previous years, and 
has, so far as possible, continued his studies in aboriginal art 
and archeology. 
