micheIvSOn: fox Indians 521 



It is hoped that a sediment laboratory may be equipped and 

 operated in the Geological Survey. In this laboratory many 

 kinds of petrologic investigation should be carried on. Mechan- 

 ical analyses of specimens of various present-day and ancient 

 deposits and studies of mineralogy, porosity, specific gravity, 

 and shape of grain will be undertaken. It is hoped also that a 

 useful collection of sediments and sedimentary rocks may be 

 built up, as was planned by Hayes, Lindgren and others. The 

 work should be pushed without extravagance but with vigor. 



What contributions we may expect from field work on sedi- 

 ments now in process of accumulation is not definitely known, 

 but no doubt studies will be made of certain such deposits. In 

 the Florida Keys, for example, this may involve continued re- 

 search on the composition of sea water and the questions of 

 whether or not this water is saturated with carbonate of lime 

 and whether cementation of the shell and other fragments may 

 take place below sea level. 



During the last decade there has, I believe, been some increase 

 of interest in the study of sediments. Although during the war 

 investigations were checked, there is at the present time, I hope, 

 and am inclined to believe, an increasing interest in the science 

 and a tendency toward cooperation which will lead to fruitful 

 investigations. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. — Some general notes on the Fox Indians. 

 Part II: Phonetics, folklore and mythology.'^ Truman 

 MiCHELSON, Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Fax PHONKTICS 



I have elsewhere'^ briefly discussed the chief differences between 

 Jones' scheme of Fox phonetics and my own. There are a few 

 points that should be taken up here. The most important one 

 is that before an initial consonant of a following word a terminal 

 voiceless aspirated vowel of the preceding word becomes full- 

 sounding and loses its aspiration. As terminal voiceless aspirated 

 vowels are normally lost before initial vowels and diphthongs, 



* Published with the permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 

 ^ Intemat. Journ. Amer. Ling, i: 54. 



