146 REPORT ON THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS. 



dence of the former intercourse between the Haidahs and the Aztec 

 races of Mexico, and have accumulated an amount of information re- 

 specting the interesting tribe inhabiting the Queen Charlotte group of 

 islands never yet made public, but which I shall elaborate in form for 

 publication. 



It may perhaps be proper for me to mention at this time, without be- 

 ing charged with egotism, that my work in the Queen Charlotte Islands 

 has been considered of such value to the Province of British Columbia- 

 that I have received an official invitation to deliver a lecture before the 

 government and legislature of that province and to other government 

 officials in Victoria on the subject of the Queen Charlotte Islands, which 

 lecture I propose to deliver this present month, having obtained permis- 

 sion so to do from Professor Baird. 



Although I have accomplished much, yet there remains much of in- 

 terest to science to be further investigated, not only on the Queen Char- 

 lotte Islands, but among the Haidahs of the Prince of Wales Archipel- 

 ago, in Alaska; and anything intended to be done among those Indians 

 to still further develop objects of interest should be done at once, before 

 the tourists gather in aU articles of Indian manufacture, and before the 

 Indians themselves shall have passed away. 



