First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Smithsonian Institution 1879-80. Accompanying Papers: On the Evolution of Language, by J. W. Powell; Wyandot Government, by J. W. Powell; On Limitation to the Use of Some Anthropological Data, by J. W.

Original cloth, quarto, 603 pp., illus. (many in color). rare First annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, by J. W. Powell, Director. xxxv + 603 pp., 346 figs, (inch 54 pls.), map. 1881. [IA] Report of the Director. Pp. xi-xxxiii. On the evolution of Language, as exhibited in the specialization of the grammatic processes, the differentiation of the parts of speech, and the integration of the sentence; from a study of Indian languages, by J. W. Powell. Pp. 1-16. Sketch of the mythology of the North American Indians, by J. W. Powell. Pp. 17-56. Wyandot government: A short study of tribal society, by J. W. Powell. Pp. 57-69. On limitations to the use of some anthropologic data, by J. W. Powell. Pp. 71-86. [Available in separate form.] A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians, by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, act. asst. surg., U.S. A[rmy]. Pp. 87-203, figs. 1-47. Studies in Central American picture-writing, by Edward S. Plolden, professor of mathematics, U.S. Naval Observatory. Pp. 205-245, figs. 48-60. Cessions of land by Indian tribes to the United States: Illustrated by those in the State of Indiana, by C. C. Royce. Pp. 247-262, map. Sign language among North American Indians compared with that among other peoples and deaf-mutes, by Garrick Mallery. Pp. 263-552, figs. 61-346. Catalogue of linguistic manuscripts in the library of the Bureau of Ethnology, by James C. Pilling. Pp. 553-577. Illustration of the method of recording Indian languages. From the manuscripts of Messrs. J. O. Dorsey, A. S. Gatschet, and S. R. Riggs. Pp. 579-589. Index. Pp. 591-603.