66 ANNUAL EEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1914. 



inadequate lighting. In addition to the space previously occupied, a 

 room on the fourth floor of the eastern end of the Smithsonian build- 

 ing was assigned temporarily to the bureau for the use of two mem- 

 bers of its staff. 



Offce force. — The personnel of the office has remained unchanged, 

 witli the exception of the resignation of one messenger boy and the 

 appointment of another. It has been necessary to employ a copyist 

 from time to time in connection with the editing of Byington's 

 Clioctaw Dictionary. The correspondence of the bureau has been 

 conducted in the same manner as set forth in the last annual report 

 and as hereinbefore mentioned. 



Recommendations. — The chief needs of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology lie in the extension of its researches to fields as yet un- 

 exploited. Attention has frequently been called to the necessity of 

 pursuing studies among Indian tribes which are rapidly becoming 

 extinct, or modified by their intimate contact with civilization. 

 These researches can not be conducted unless the means are pro- 

 vided, since the present limited scientific corps, with inadequate 

 allotments of money to meet the expenses of extended field investi- 

 gations, is not equal to the immense amount of work to be done. 

 Unfortunately many opportunities for conducting these researches 

 which were possible a few years ago have passed away, owing to the 

 death of older Indians who alone possessed certain Imowledge of 

 their race. Much can still be done, hoAvever, if only the means are 

 afforded. 



It is scarcely necessary to repeat, in connection with this general 

 recommendation, the estimate for an increase, amounting to $24,800, 

 in the appropriation for the bureau and the brief reasons for urging 

 the grant of this additional sum, inasmuch as these items will be 

 found in the printed Estimates of Appropiiations, 1915-10. 



Kespectfully submitted. 



F. W. Hodge, 

 Ethnologisf-in-charge. 



The Skcretaky of the Smithsonian Institution. 



