28 Transactions of the Canadian Institute. [Vol. VII. 



THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE DENES. 



LETTER FROM THE REV. FATHER MORICE. 



Stuart's Lake Mission, 2. Jati,, igoi. 



Editor "Transactions C.I.," Toronto. 



Dear Sir, — In a late communication from Prof. O. C. Mason, of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, I find the following : — 



" In the publication which you sent me, you call attention to the list of Atha- 

 paskan tribes published in the Standard Dictionary. Supposing' me to be the author 

 of that list, you make some just observations about its meagferness. I am happy to 

 tell you that, while I wrote a great number of definitions for the Standard Dictionary, 

 I did not make any ethnological list whatever." 



Prof. Mason here refers to remarks published in the latter part of the first of my 

 papers lately printed in the Memorial Volume (p. 82). It is indeed very unfortunate 

 that I should have been guilty of such an injustice with regard to a scientist whom 

 I know by personal experience to be so pains-taking and conscientious in his work. 

 My regret is so much the greater as I more than half suspected the real author of 

 the classification incriminated in my little paper. But the list of the editorial staff 

 of the Standard Dictionary prefixed to that valuable publication left me no choice 

 but to attribute the incomplete D^n^ classification to Prof. Mason, who is described as 

 having been in charge of the anthropological department, while the actual compiler's 

 name is therein associated with a branch of lexicology which has no necessary connec- 

 tion with ethnography. ' 



Hoping you will kindly give this rectification as mnch publicity as was granted 

 to the statement which has necessitated it, I remain, dear Mr. Editor, 



Yours faithfully, 



A. G. MORICE, O.M.I. 



