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The sum of $3,000, appropriated by Congress for the excavation, repair, and 



preservation of Oasa Grande Ruin, in Arizona, was disbursed by the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 having charge of the work. A brief preliminary report on the first year's opera- 

 tions will appear in the Quarterly Issue of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Col- 

 lections. A second appropriation of $3,000 is provided for continuing the work 

 during the coming year. 



During the year uniform rules and regulations intended to serve in carrying 

 out the recently enacted law for the preservation of national antiquities were 

 formulated and adopted by the three departments having control of the public 

 domain. Under these, on recommendation of the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, permits were issued for conducting explorations on Indian reserva- 

 tions and national forests in Idaho and Wyoming, by the American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York, and among the ancient ruins on the public lands 

 in Navaho and Apache counties, Arizona, by the University of California. Ar- 

 rangements were also made with the Interior Department for carrying on 

 explorations at Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, by the Smithsonian Institution. 

 Under the same law during the year three important archeological sites were 

 declared national monuments by the President of the United States. They are 

 as follows : Chaco Canyon, in New Mexico, including several important ruined 

 pueblos ; El Moro, New Mexico, commonly known as Inscription Rock ; and 

 Montezuma Castle, in Arizona, an important cliff ruin. 



CATALOGUE OF LINGUISTIC MANUSCRIPTS. 



r Pne archives of the Bureau contain 1.026 manuscripts, mainly linguistic, of 

 which only a partial catalogue had previously been made. In January Mr. 

 J. B. Clayton, head clerk, began the preparation of a card catalogue, which was 

 completed at the close of the year. The manuscripts were jacketed in nianila 

 envelopes of uniform size, except where bulk prevented, and were numbered 

 from 1 to 1026. 



The catalogue comprises about 14,000 cards which give, as completely as 

 available data permit, the names of stock, language, dialect, collector, and local- 

 ity, as well as the date of the manuscript. It was not possible in every instance 

 to supply all the information called for under these heads, but the card has 

 been made as complete in each case as the information permitted. The cards 

 have been arranged in one alphabetical series, the names of the languages not 

 only under these languages in their proper alphabetical place, but also alpha- 

 betically under their stocks. Under the name of each collector his manuscripts 

 are indexed under stocks, languages, and dialects. The data in regard to 

 "place" are very defective, and quite a number of the manuscripts arc from 

 anonymous sources. 



EDITORIAL WORK. 



Mr. Joseph G. Gurley, who was appointed to the position of editor for a 

 probationary period during the previous year, was permanently appointed on 

 August 16, 1906. 



The editorial work of the year may be summarized briefly as follows : The 

 proof reading of the Twenty-fourth Annual Report was completed ami the 

 work advanced to publication. At the close of the year the Twenty-fifth 

 Annual was practically finished, with the exception of the presswork, while 

 the Twenty-sixth Report was in page form, so that the work was practically 

 ready for printing. Bulletin 32 was completed and published early in the year, 

 and Bulletin 36 also has been issued, rulletins 38, 34. and 35 are in type, and 



