58 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1913. 



Bulletin oJ^^ The Physiography of the Rio Grande Valley^ Nexo 

 Mexico, in Relation to Puehlo Culture, by Edgar Lee Hewett, Junius 

 Henderson, and Wilfred William Bobbins. 



The work on the other publications during the year may be sum- 

 marized as follows: 



Twenty-ninth Annual Report (" accompanying paper," The Ethno- 

 geogi-aphy of the Tewa Indians, by John Peabody Harrington). 

 Manuscript prepared for the printers and nearly half of the com- 

 position finished. 



Thirtieth Annual Report (" accompanying papers " : (1) Animism 

 and Folklore of the Guiana Indians, by Walter E. Koth; (2) Tsim- 

 shian Mythology, by Franz Boas; (3) Ethnobotany of the Zuni 

 Indians, by Matilda Coxe Stevenson). Editing of the thir^ paper 

 and to a considerable extent that of the first paper completed. 



Bulletin 1^0, Handbook of American Indian Languages, by Franz 

 Boas — Part 2. Work on the Coos section nearly finished and com- 

 position of the Chukchee section begun. Two sections (Takelma and 

 Coos) are now " made up," aggregating 429 pages. 



'Bulletin J^G, A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language, by Cyrus 

 Byington, edited by John R. Swanton and H. S. Halbert. The 

 editors have revised two galley proofs of the Choctaw-English sec- 

 tion of this dictionary and have practically finished preparation for 

 the printers of the English-Choctaw section. The first part, of this 

 bulletin is now in process of paging. 



Bulletin 53, Chippewa Music — //, by Frances Densmore. Manu- 

 script edited and the several proofs read, including proofs of 180 

 pieces of music. At the end of the year the bulletin was held in the 

 Printing Office awaiting receipt of the necessary paper stock. 



Bidletin 55, Ethnohotany of the Tewa Indians, by Barbara "Whit- 

 church Freire-Marreco, Wilfred William Robbins, and John Pea- 

 body Harrington. Manuscript edited and the work in galley f6rm at 

 the close of the year. 



Bulletin 56, Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians, by Junius Hender- 

 son and John Peabody Harrington. Manuscript edited and the work 

 in page form at the close of the year. - 



In accordance with the act of Congress approved August 23, 1912, 

 the entire stock of publications of the bureau, with the exception of 

 a few copies of each available work which have been retained at the 

 Smithsonian Institution for special purposes, was transferred to the 

 Government Printing Office in October, 1912, for distribution from 

 the office of the superintendent of documents on order from the 

 bureau. It has been found that this plan of distribution is highly 

 successful, and, of course, much less expensive to the bureau. 



The correspondence relating to publications, of which 15,070 were 

 distributed during the year, was conducted under the immediate 



