[LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL]

Washington, D. C., November 4, 1916.

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith the manuscript of a memoir entitled "The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan and Northern British Honduras," by Thomas W. F. Gann, and to recommend its publication as a bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Very respectfully,

F. W. Hodge,

Ethnologist-in-Charge.

Hon. Charles D. Walcott,

Secretary, Smithsonian Institution.