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The following manuscripts are still outstuiKling : 



1. J. N. B. Hewitt: Grammatical notes on the Iroquois (Iroquoian stock). 



2. Dr. Franz Boas: Grammatical notes on the Eskimo (Eskimauan stock). 



3. Dr. Franz Boas : Grammatical notes on the Tsimshian (Chimmesyan stock). 

 During the year the grammatical notes on the Shoshoni by Mr. H. H. St. 



Clair, 2d, have been revised. 



The general plan of the Handbook of Languages has undergone no material 

 change, except in so far as it was deemed advisable to add briefer articles on the 

 grammar of the remaining languages of the northern part of the continent. 

 These are the Tlingit, the ^'alish, the Kuteuai, and the Chemakum. It is 

 a.lso deemed advisable to add a sketch of one of the coast languages of Oregon 

 which was collected during the year 190^^-5 by Mr. St. Clair, who submitted his 

 material on the Coosa and Takilma of Oregon during the present year. 



It also seemed desirable to add some data relating to the formation of the 

 noun in Chinook, which seemed of importance in order to clear up some ques- 

 tions relating to the fundamental traits of that family of languages. Since all 

 our information on this stock is derived from one informant, it seemed essen- 

 tial to obtain additional material from other sources and from another dialect. 

 I'or this reason preparations were made to send Mr. E. Sapir to the upper 

 Columbia River to make a study of the Wasco. In the preparation of this 

 work the Kathlamet Dictionary, based on Bulletin 26, was arranged and copied. 



The work on the southern group of languages will require long and ener- 

 getic field work. So far only one of the languages of the Gulf States, the 

 Yuchi, has been taken up, this tribe being selected because it seems most likely 

 to furnish material that will be not only of linguistic value but will afCord 

 knowledege of the early history and customs of the Southeast. This Avork has 

 been intrusted to Mr. Frank G. Speck, who spent the sumiuer of 1904 among the 

 Yuchi tribe and who returned to this field at the close of the fiscal year. 



HANDBOOK OF THE INDIANS. 



Work on the Handbook of the Indians North of Mexico, hitherto frequently 

 referred to as the " Dictionary of Indian Tribes," has been vigorously prose- 

 cuted during the year under the immediate supervision of Mr. F. W. Hodge, 

 of the Smitlisonian Institution, who, with the approval of the Secretary, 

 has devoted most of his time thereto. Mr. Hodge has had the almost undi- 

 vided assistance of Dr. Cyrus Thomas ; and, as occasion required, nearly the 

 entire scientific stafC of the Bureau has aided both in the preparation of 

 the anthropologic and kindred articles and in the revision and elaboration 

 of the tribal descriptions found to be necessary by reason of recently 

 acquired knowledge. So far as the funds of the Bureau afforded, the aid of 

 ethnologists not ofiicially connected with the Bureau was also enlisted. The 

 services generously rendered by these, either gratuitously or for merely a 

 nominal consideration, are highly appreciated. 



As outlined in former reports it was originally the plan of Major Powell 

 to classify the linguistic families, tribes, and settlements north of Mexico 

 and to identify the various names by which these had been known in the 

 vast literature of the subject, with a brief description of each such group. 

 This material, recorded on many thousands of cards, became known as the 

 " Cyclopedia of Tribes, with Synonymy." 



In 190.3 the Secretary altered the scope of the work by directing the incor- 

 poration of brief separate articles pertaining to the habits, customs, arts, and 

 industries of the Indians, and of their dealings with the Government, together 

 with biographies of noted individuals and a list of words of northern Indian 



