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two tribes, corrected several texts obtained on earlier expeditions, 

 and added materially to his general ethnological information regard- 

 ing them. In December Dr. Swanton proceeded to Oklahoma, where 

 he obtained about 50 pages of text in Hitchiti, a language now con- 

 fined to a very few persons among the Creek Indians, and collected a 

 few notes regarding the Choctaw, 



Before his departure from Washington and after his return Dr. 

 Swanton spent the greater part of the time in collecting information 

 concerning the Southern tribes from early Spanish, French, and 

 English authorities. Considerable attention was also devoted to 

 reading the proofs of the Rev. Cyrus Byington's Choctaw Dictionary, 

 now in process of printing, in which labor he was efficiently aided 

 by Mr. H. S. Halbert, of the Alabama State department of archives 

 and history. Dr. Swanton also commenced a general grammatical 

 study of the languages of the Muskhogean stock, particularly Ala- 

 bama, Hitchiti, and Choctaw, and in order to further this work he 

 was subsequently engaged in making a preliminary stem catalogue 

 of Creek from the material recorded by the late Dr. Gatschet, similar 

 to the catalogue already prepared for Hitchiti, Alabama, and 

 Natchez. He began also the preparation of a card catalogue of words 

 in Timucua, the ancient extinct language of Florida, taken from the 

 grammar and catechisms of Father Pare j a. In May, Dr. Swanton 

 visited New York in order to examine rare Timucua works in the 

 Buckingham Smith collection of the New York Historical Society. 

 Through the courtesy of this society and of the New York Public 

 Library arrangements have been made for furnishing photostat 

 copies of these rare and important books, and the reproductions were 

 in preparation at the close of the fiscal year. 



In connection with the researches of Dr. Swanton, it is gratifying 

 to report that he was awarded last spring the second Loubat prize in 

 recognition of his two publications — " Tlingit Myths and Texts " and 

 " Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Adjacent Coast 

 of the Gulf of Mexico " — both issued by the bureau. 



Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, ethnologist, devoted her time to the con- 

 clusion of her researches among the Tewa Indians of New Mexico 

 and to the preparation of a paper on that interesting and conserva- 

 tive people. A preliminary table of contents of the proposed memoir 

 indicates that her studies of the customs and beliefs of the Tewa will 

 be as comprehensive as the published results of her investigations of 

 the Sia and the Zuiii tribe of the same State. As at present outlined, 

 the work, which will soon be completed, will contain six sections, deal- 

 ing with the following subjects, respectively : Philosophy, anthropic 

 worship and ritual, zoic worship, social customs, material culture, and 

 history. 



