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notably those by Mr. Clarence B. Moore on the mounds of the South. 

 In this compilation the bureau has had the generous cooperation of 

 Mr. Arthur C. Parker, State archeologist of New York, and of Mr. 

 Warren K. Moorehead, curator of the department of archeology of 

 Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, while others have kindly 

 offered their aid. No date for the publication can yet be given. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The editorial work of the bureau has been conducted under the 

 immediate charge of Mr. J. G. Gurley, editor. The proof reading 

 of the twenty-seventh annual report, the accompanying paper of 

 which is a monograph entitled ul The Omaha Tribe,'' by Alice C. 

 Fletcher and Francis La Flesche, was completed and the report 

 published. 



The manuscript of the twenty-eighth annual report was edited and 

 transmitted to the Public Printer. At the close of the year about 

 one-third of this report was in page form, and the remainder was in 

 process of paging. This report includes the following papers : Casa 

 Grande, Arizona, by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes; Antiquities of the Upper 

 Verde River and Walnut Creek Valley, Arizona, also by Dr. Fewkes, 

 and Preliminary Report on the Linguistic Classification of Algon- 

 quian Tribes, by Dr. Truman Michelson. 



The series of bulletins was increased by the addition of Bulletin 47, 

 A Dictionary of the Biloxi and Ofo Languages, Accompanied by 

 Thirty-one Biloxi Texts and Numerous Biloxi Phrases, by James 

 Owen Dorsey and John R. S want on. 



Bulletin 49, List of Publications of the Bureau, was issued in a 

 third impression. 



Bulletin 40, Handbook of American Indian Languages, Part 2, was 

 carried toward completion under the editorship of Dr. Franz Boas, 

 as elsewhere stated, with the result that two sections, comprising 418 

 pages, dealing with the Takelma and Coos languages, are in substan- 

 tially final form. 



Toward the close of the year steps were taken to advance the work 

 on Bulletin 46, Byington's Choctaw Dictionaiy, 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 Hrdlicka, in col- 

 laboration 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. Substantial progress on the prep- 

 aration of the author's material for the press had been made at the 

 close of the fiscal year. 



