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Illustrations. — The preparation of illustrations for the publications of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology has been continued under the direct supervision of Mr. 

 De Lancey W. Gill, to whose artistic skill and intelligent interest in anthropologic 

 subjects the high standard of the pictorial part of the Bureau's published works is 

 largely due. 



Photographs. — In addition to the splendid series of photographs marie by Mr. Din- 

 widdie, under the direction of Mr. McGee, during the season of exploration among 

 the Seri and Papago, and those made by Mr. Mindeleff at Canyon de Chelly, indi- 

 vidual and group photographs were made of an Osage and an Otoe delegation who 

 visited Washington in February and March, respectively. 



NECROLOGY. 



Garrick Mallery. — Col. Garrick Mallery, who died at his home in Washington City, 

 October 24, 1894, was born in Wilkesbarre, Pa., April 23, 1831. After his graduation 

 at Yale College and a due course of study under the direction of his father, Judge 

 Garrick Mallery, he began the practice of law in Philadelphia, which he continued 

 until the outbreak of the civil war, when he entered the volunteer service as captain in 

 the Seventy-first Pennsylvania Infantry. Throughout the rebellion Mallery displayed 

 unusual bravery. In June, 1862, at the battle of Peach Orchard, Virginia, he was 

 twice severely wounded, and while lying on the battlefield was captured and sent 

 to Libby Prison, at Richmond, where he remained until exchanged and sent to his 

 home at Philadelphia. As soon as he had sufficiently recovered from his wounds 

 Mallery returned to duty and became lieutenant-colonel of the Thirteenth Pennsyl- 

 vania Cavalry, which position he retained until the close of the war. In 1866 he 

 was commissioned captain of the Forty-third Infantry of the Regular Army, and 

 later the brevet rank of colonel was bestowed on him for gallant and meritorious 

 services. His scientific knowledge was early recognized by the War Department, 

 and in 1870 he was detailed to execute a plan adopted by law for the prosecution of 

 meteorological researches by the Signal Service, and in this connection frequently 

 acted as chief signal officer of the Army. 



Colonel Mallery's studies of the ethnology of the Indians of North America began 

 with his military service'on the frontier. In 1876 he was assigned to the command 

 of Fort Rice, Dak., where he became absorbed in the sign language and pictography 

 of the plains tribes. His writings on these subjects soon became well and favorably 

 known, and on the organization of the Bureau of Ethnology in 1879 his services 

 were at once engaged by the director for the prosecution of the researches he had 

 so well begun. In 1880 his Introduction to the Study of Sign Language Among the 

 North American Indians as Illustrating the Gesture Speech of Mankind, was pub- 

 lished, followed immediately by A Collection of Gesture Signs and Signals of the 

 North American Indians, with Some Comparisons. The latter volume formed the 

 basis of his memoir on Pictographs of the North American Indians, a preliminary 

 paper of 256 pages published in the fourth annual report of the Bureau, and the. 

 greatly extended memoir of 807 pages and over 1,300 illustrations bearing the title 

 Picture Writing of the American Indians — a monument to his industry and ingenious 

 research — comprising the body of the tenth annual report of the Bureau. Colonel 

 Mallery's Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared with that Among 

 other People and Deaf-Mutes, which appeared in the first annual report of the 

 Bureau, was based on his Collection of Gesture Signs and Signals, but even this 

 monograph of 290 pages and 300 illustrations was regarded only as preliminary, his 

 great work on this subject remaining unfinished at the time of his death. 



Colonel Mallery was the first to direct serious attention to the investigation of the 

 population of the American aborigines in past times as compared to the present, and 

 his paper, The Former and Present Number of Our Indians, effectually exploded the 

 old theory that the aboriginal population of America at the time of the discovery 

 was much greater than at the present period. But Colonel Mallery's anthropologic 

 researches were not confined to the American Indians. His studies in general soci- 



