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to be in fact members of the Chehalis tribe, thus proving conclusively 
that the Willapa are entirely extinct. 
Dr. Frachtenberg returned to New York late in October and was 
engaged until the beginning of December in the preparation of the 
Siuslaw grammatical sketch for the Handbook of American Indian 
Languages, additional work on which became necessary because of 
the fact that during his stay in the field he had received further in- 
formation concerning this extinct stock. In December Dr. Frachten- 
berg took up his duties in Washington, becoming first engaged in 
supplying references from the Siuslaw texts in the grammatical 
sketch of that language. At the close of the year this sketch was in 
type. Dr. Frachtenberg also prepared for publication a Siuslaw- 
English and English-Siuslaw vocabulary, containing 90 typewritten 
pages. He furthermore prepared an English-Coos glossary, which 
may be utilized in the near future, as it has been found desirable to 
add such a glossary to each volume of native texts. 
On completion of this work Dr. Frachtenberg commenced the 
preparation of the Alsea texts collected by Dr. Livingston Farrand 
in 1900 and by himself in 1910. These texts, consisting of 31 myths, 
tales, and narratives, and comprising 195 typewritten pages, will be 
submitted in the near future with a view to publication as a bulletin 
of the bureau. 
At the close of the fiscal year Dr. Frachtenberg was preparing for 
another field season in Oregon, with the view of finishing his studies 
of the Kalapooian stock and of conducting similar researches among 
the Quileute. 
Mr. W. H. Holmes, of the National Museum, continued his work 
on the preparation of the Handbook of American Antiquities for 
the bureau, reaching the practical completion of part 1 and making 
much headway in the preparation of part 2; progress in this work, 
however, was necessarily delayed owing to the pressure of many 
duties connected with a head curatorship in the National Museum. 
During August, 1913, Mr. Holmes made a visit to Luray, Va., for 
the further study of an ancient village site near that place and the 
examination of certain implement-making sites in the vicinity. In 
June he visited Missouri for the purpose of studying certain collec- 
tions owned in St. Louis and for the reexamination of an ancient 
iron and paint mine at Leslie. It was found, however, that recent 
mining operations had been carried so far that traces of the aborigi- 
nal work at the mine were practically obliterated, and besides the 
mine was found to be filled with water, making effective examina- 
tion impossible. From St. Louis he proceeded to Chicago, where 
studies were made of certain collections with a view of obtaining 
data necessary to the completeness of the Handbook of American 
Antiquities. 
