Excerpt from In Memoriam James Constantine Pilling, 1846-1895 When, in 1881, Major Powell succeeded Mr. Clarence King in the directorship of the present United States Geological Survey, Mr. Pilling was made chief clerk of that bureau. He did not, however, abandon his ethnologic researches, but as a member of the Bureau of Ethnology, also, he continued until his death to give to ethnologic and linguistic work all the time and strength he could command, and this sufficed to enable him to catalogue and index the literature relating to the. Languages of nearly all the Indian tribes of North America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.