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Show ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XXIX Mr F. W. Hodge, with the assistance of Dr Cyrus Thomas, the former carrying forward the work in connection with other duties. Dr Thomas completed the preliminary arrangement of the material relating to the tribes of the Algonquian stock, submitting the material for editorial revision. He afterward took up the manuscript and literature relating to the tribes of the Siouan stock, and has made satisfactory progress in the arrangement of the material. COLLECTIONS A number of collections have been acquired during the year under the more immediate direction of the Secretary. Some of these are noted above; in addition there have been acquired ( 1) a collection of Jamaican antiquities by MacCormack, including 160 specimens of ancient stone implements, earthenware, etc., and 20 petaloid implements; ( 2) the Palmer collection of 98 ethnologic specimens from Mexico; and ( 3) the Gane collection of cliff- house relics, comprising fictile ware, bone implements, etc., from San Juan valley, Utah. In addition, the Muniz collection of trephined skulls, illustrated and described in the sixteenth annual report, was finally transferred to the Museum. A considerable number of separate objects and minor collections obtained by exchange for reports and by gift has also been turned over to the Museum during the year; among these was a Muskwaki hand- loom obtained by Mr McGee for the express purpose of filling a hiatus in the national collection. PUBLICATION Satisfactory progress has been made by Mr Hodge in the revision of the proofs of the seventeenth and eighteenth annual reports and in the editorial work on the manuscript of the nineteenth annual report. The seventeenth report was transmitted to the Public Printer through the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution on July 6, 1897. In addition to the usual account of the operations of the Bureau the seventeenth annual report contains four memoirs, bearing the titles, The Seri Indians, by W J McGee; Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians, by James Mooney; Navaho Houses, by Cosmos Mindeleff, and |