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Show XLVIII ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR North American tribes by many hundred new cards of reference. Mr. FRANK HAMILTON CUSHING was engaged at Washington during the months of July and August, 1882, in transcribing his voluminous field notes on the gentile, esoteric, religious, and governmental organizations of the Zuni, preparatory to an essay on the Zuni Sociology in a broader sense He also prepared the greater portion of his field notes on other subjects, including archaeologic and linguistic studies, for systematizing in a series of short papers, when such should be rendered possible by additional research, for which he resumed field work, as specified under that heading. By request of the Director, he prepared in April, for reading before the National Academy of Sciences, a short paper on the " Relationship between Zuni Mythologic and Sociologic Systems and Institutions." Following out some of the principles laid down in that address, he wrote a paper on Zuni Fetiches, which was published in the second annual report of the Bureau. Mr. JAMES C. FILLING continued the preparation of a Bibliography of North American Languages, but, as stated in previous reports, was able to give to it but a portion of his time. During the year proof- sheets of pages 97 to 512 were received from the Public Printer, and copies of each signature were distributed to competent persons at a distance for the purpose of obtaining suggestions, additions, and corrections. Among those who greatly aided the work were Sefior Icazbalceta, of the city of Mexico; Mr. Wilberforce Eames, of New York City; Mr. C. A. Cutter, of the Boston Athenaeum; and Mr. Addison Van Name, of Yale College. In December, 1882, Mr. Pilling made a trip to several libraries in New York City, Boston, and Providence for the purpose of settling certain disputed points; and in the following spring he visited the library of Mr. H. 11. Bancroft, at San Francisco, Cal. While en route, the archives at Chihuahua, in Mexico, were examined. Later, the library of the Wisconsin Historical Society, at Madison, and the Cincinnati Public Library were visited and good results obtained. Mr. CHAELE8 C. ROYCE, who, for nearly two years, had been |