in the preparation of a general map of the United States, showing the area of the mounds and the relative frequency of their occurrence. He has since assisted Professor Thomas in the preparation of the monograph upon the inclosures. Mr. Victor Mindeleff, assisted by Mr. Cosmos Mindeleff, has been engaged in preparing for publication a "Study of Pueblo Architecture" as illustrated in the provinces of Tusayan and Cibola, material for which he has been engaged in collecting for a number of years. This report is now completed, and will appear in the Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau. At the beginning of the fiscal year Mr. Cosmos Mindeleff and the force of the modelling room completed the bureau exhibit for the Cincinnati Exposition, and during the early part of the year Mr. Mindeleff was at Cincinnati in charge of the same. Owing to restricted space the exhibit was limited to the Pueblo culture group, but this was illustrated as fully as the time would permit. The exhibit covered about 1,200 feet of floor space as well as a large amount of wall space, and consisted of models of pueblo and cliff ruins; models of inhabited pueblos, ancient and modern pottery, examples of weaving, basketry, etc., a representative series of implements of war, the chase, agriculture, and the household, manikins illustrating costumes, and a series of large photographs illustrative of aboriginal architecture of the pueblo region, and of many phases of pueblo life. Upon Mr. Mindeleff's return from Cincinnati he resumed assistance to Mr. Victor Mindeleff upon a report on pueblo architecture, and the close of the fiscal year saw the two chapters which had been assigned him completed. They consist of a review of the literature on the pueblo region and a summary of the traditions of the Tusayan group from material collected by Mr. A. M. Stephen. Work was also continued on the duplicate series of models, and twelve were advanced to various stages of completion. Some time was devoted to repairing original models which had been exhibited at Cincinnati and other expositions, and also to experiments in casting in paper, in order to find a suitable paper for use in large models. The experiments were successful. Mr. J. K. Hillers has continued the collection of photographs of prominent Indians, in both full-face and profile, by which method all the facial characteristics are exhibited to the best advantage. In nearly every instance a record has been preserved of the sitter's status in the tribe, the age, biographic notes of interest, and in case of mixed bloods the degree of intermixture of blood. The total number of photographs obtained during the year is 27, distributed among the following tribes, viz: Sac and Fox, 5; Dakota, 6; Omaha, 6, and mixed-bloods (Creeks), 10. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. ANNUAL REPORTS. First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1879-'80. 1881. xxxv, +603 pp. 8vo. Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1880-'81. 1883. xxxvii, +477 pp. 8vo. Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1881-82. 1884. Ixxiv, +606 pp. 8vo. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1882-83. 1886. lxxiii, +532 pp. 8vo. Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1883-84. 1887. liii, + 564 pp. 8vo. Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1884-'85. 1888. Ivii, +675 pp. 8vo. CONTRIBUTIONS. Contributions to North American Ethnology, Vol. I. 1877. xiv, +361 pp. 4to. Contributions to North American Ethnology, Vol. III. 1877. 3. 635 pp. 4to. Contributions to North American Ethnology, Vol. IV. 1851. xiv, +281 pp. 4to. Contributions to North American Ethnology, Vol. V. 18-2. 112. 32. xxxvii, +237 PP. 4to. Powell, J. W. 4to. Powell, J. W. +228 pp. INTRODUCTIONS. Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages. 1877. 104 pp. Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages. 2nd ed. 1880. xi, 4to. Mallery, Garrick. Introduction to the Study of Sign Language. 1880. iv, +72 pp. 4to. Yarrow, H. C. Introduction to the Study of Mortuary Customs. 1880. ix, +114 pp. 4to. Mallery, Garrick. Collection of Gesture Signs and Signals. 1880. 329 pp. 4to. Pilling, J. C. Proof-sheets of Bibliography of North American Indian Languages. 1885. xl, +1135 pp. 4to. BULLETIN. Pilling, J. C. Bibliography of the Eskimo Language, 1887. v, 116 pp. 8vo. Thomas, C. Work in Mound Exploration of the Bureau of Ethnology. 1887. 15 pp. 8vo. Pilling, J. C. Pilling, J. C. Bibliography of the Siouan Languages. 1887. v, 87 pp. 8vo. Bibliography of the Iroquoian Languages. 1888. vi, +208 pp. 8vo. Bibliography of the Musk hogean Languages. 1889. v, +114 pp. 8vo. Thomas, C. The Circular, Square, and Octagonal Earth-works of Ohio. 1889. 35 pp. 8vo. Pilling, J. C. Thomas, C. The Problem of the Ohio Mounds. 1839. 54 pp. 8vo. Holines, W. H. Textile Fabrics of Ancient Peru. 1889. pp. 17. 8vo, H. Mis. 224-5 NECROLOGY. JEROME H. KIDDER. Dr. Jerome H. Kidder was born in Baltimore County, Md., on the 26th of October, 1842, and graduated in 1862 at Harvard, where he is still remembered as foremost in the gymnasium as well as on his classrolls. He immediately then tendered his services for the war, and was placed in charge of the sea island plantations near Beaufort, S. C., where he contracted yellow fever, and was invalided home early in 1863; but upon recovery enlisted in the Tenth Maryland Infantry, in which he served as private and non-commissioned officer until the following year, when he was selected to be medical cadet, and in that capacity was employed in the military hospitals near the capital. During this time he was prosecuting the study of medicine, and in 1866 received from the University of Maryland the degree of M. D. In the same year he was commissioned an assistant surgeon in the U. S. Navy, becoming full surgeon in 1876. Dr. Kidder's first duty was at Japan, where he quickly acquired the language of the country, and in other ways established the reputation which attached to him throughout his career for his "capacity for taking pains." While on this foreign service he was decorated by the King of Portugal in recognition of services to a distressed vessel of His Majesty's navy. Dr. Kidder took part in observing the transit of Venus at Kerguelen Island, in 1874, as surgeon and naturalist of the expedition, and the excellent results of his scientific labors and researches therewith will be found described in the Bulletins of the U. S. National Museum. After the return of this expedition, Dr. Kidder arranged his specimens and collections in the Smithsonian Institution, and commenced those kindly and intimate relations with it which continued through his after life, with the regard of all his associates there. In 1878 Surgeon Kidder married, at Constantinople, Annie Mary, daughter of the Hon. Horace Maynard, minister of the United States to Turkey, and in 1884, having inherited an adequate fortune, he resigned his commission and established his home in Washington, and here organized the bacteriological laboratory in connection with the Navy Museum of Hygiene, and also made a sanitary survey of the site proposed for the new Naval Observatory, while later he was appointed chemist of the U. S. Fish Commission, and in that capacity became one of the most trusted advisers of Professor Baird. His laboratory was in the Smithsonian building, and under the direction of the Secretary of the Institution he made, at the request of Congress, an exhaustive study of the ventilation of the Capitol and of the air in the Senate chambers and the hall of the House, and submitted an extended report or the use of the committees engaged upon the sanitary reform of the building. In 1887, after the death of Commissioner Baird, he served for a time as Assistant Commissioner of Fisheries, under Commissioner Goode. While connected with the Fish Commission he carried on a successful series of experiments to solve the problems relative to the temperature of living fishes, which have been made public through the reports of the Fish Commission. Besides the reports just referred to, Dr. Kidder contributed valuable papers to various professional and educational publications, and held for years a place on the literary staff of the New York World, and maintained membership in many learned societies. He was one of the founders of the Cosmos Club, and among the organizers of the Harvard Club in Washington, and a prominent member in the Masonic fraternity. In 1888 Dr. Kidder accepted from the present Secretary the ap pointment of curator of laboratory and exchanges. His pleasant past relations to the Institution, and the esteem in which he was held by those connected with it, made the closer connection thus estab lished agreeable to all; and the writer can not speak in too warm terms of the character of Dr. Kidder as shown in their business relations. His liberal education and views, served by the "capacity for taking pains" already referred to, were all under the control of the nrost conscientious regard for duty, and made him a valued administrator of the department under his charge. He knew how to maintain, together with exact order, the kindliest relations with all employed in it, who, it is safe to say, remember him with an affection and regard due to his excellent personal qualities, an affection and regard which the writer profoundly shares. Just in his best work, in his fullest physical vigor, Dr. Kidder was stricken with pneumonia, and died after a brief illness on the 8th of April, 1889. His attachment to this Institution, which had always been of the peculiarly intimate character, was also shown in a bequest of which I shall elsewhere have to speak. In conclusion, I can not but add to the statement of this great deprivation to the Institution an expression of my sense of personal loss in the parting with a friend who, in every relation of life, was a man as honorable and worthy of trust as any I have ever known. JAMES STEVENSON. In recording the death of Mr. James Stevenson, which occurred on the 25th of last July, I have to announce the loss of one of the most valuable as well as one of the oldest and most active collaborators of this Institution. Mr. Stevenson was born in Maysville, Ky., in 1840, and while still little more than a boy, in the spring of 1857, ascended the Missouri River with the Warren Expedition; and from that time, with the exception of the interval caused by his acceptable services in the civil war, he annually and regularly visited the Rocky Mountain region, first under the auspices of the United States Exploring Expeditions of Warren and Reynolds, and latterly under that of the U. S. Geological Survey, of which he became the executive officer when that organization first took form, a position in which he remained up to the time of his death. His capacity and integrity were valued not only by the officials of the Survey, which he did so much in connection with, but by those of this Institution, for which during thirty years he gathered in remote regions specimens of natural history, geology, and ethnology, which are permanent testimonials of his enterprise and his industry. During the season of 1885 he was engaged in making an extended search among the pueblos in the Moquis and Navajo districts of New Mexico, and in this elevated country he was stricken by the dreaded disease which lurks there. I met him in this region in 1887, when he was already aroused, though too late, to a sense of his danger, and am glad to recollect the circumstances of an acquaintance that associated him with the regions of the West, in which so much of his life had been passed, where so much valuable work was done, and where I had an opportunity to learn something of his fertility of resource in emergency and in the intimacy of camp life, of the amiable traits of his private character. Mr. Stevenson's work was a double one, for he was equally at home in cities, and especially in Washington, where he was extensively known among members of Congress, and where the general confidence reposed in him by them was a deserved tribute not merely to his skill but to his personal integrity. Respectfully submitted. S. P. LANGLEY, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. |