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since in recent years the progress of destructive agencies, especially the activi- 
ties of relic hunters, has been very rapid. 
SPECIAL RESEARCHES. 
As in former years, a number of collaborators were engaged in conducting 
researches of a special nature in various fields. Dr. Franz Boas, honorary 
philologist of the bureau, continued his labors on the Handbook of Languages, 
assisted by a number of students. Prominent among these is Dr. Leo J. 
Frachtenberg, who at the close of the year was engaged in studying the lan- 
guage of the Siletz tribe on its reservation in Oregon. Volume I of the Hand- 
book of Languages is now in press, and the work of Doctor Boas for the year 
included the proof reading of this volume as well as the preparation. of the 
text of Volume II. 
Miss Frances Densmore continued her researches relating to the music of 
the Chippewa, and a paper dealing with this subject was submitted for pub- 
lication as Bulletin 45. A number of valuable phonographic records were 
obtained. 
Mr. J. P. Dunn, who was assigned the linguistic work among the western 
Algonquian tribes left unfinished by the late Doctor Gatschet, continued the 
study of the Miami language among tribal remnants in Indiana and Oklahoma, 
and submitted a number of preliminary papers, 
COLLECTIONS. 
The collections acquired by the bureau and transferred to the National Mu- 
seum during the year comprise fifteen accessions, the more important being as 
follows: 
Collection of West Indian antiquities, purchased from C. W. Branch, St. 
Vincent, British West Indies. 
Indian relics from Moosehead Lake, Maine, presented by Mr. J. D. McQuire. 
Cache of flaked stone objects from Moosehead Lake, Maine, purchased from 
T. Wilson. 
Collection of bones, pottery fragments, ete., obtained by Mr. J. D. McGuire 
and Dr. AleS Hrdlitka at Piscataway, Md. 
Archeological objects collected by Dr. J. W. Fewkes, ethnologist, during 
the excavation and repair of Spruce-tree House in the Mesa Verde National 
Park, Colorado. 
Pottery fragments from Coden, Ala. 
Stone implements from Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, and an earthenware vessel 
from Nazco, Peru, collected by Mr. W. H. Holmes. 
Fragments of earthenware of the variety known as “salt vessels,” from 
the vicinity of Shawneetown, Ill., presented by Mr. R. Moore, of Equality, M1. 
Ethnologica of the Chitimacha Indians, collected by Dr. John R. Swanton. 
PUBLICATIONS. 
The editorial work remained in charge of Mr. J. G. Gurley, who for a short 
period had the assistance of Mr. Stanley Searles. 
Work on the publications of the bureau during the fiscal year may be briefly 
summarized as follows: The proof reading of the Twenty-sixth Annual Report 
and of Bulletin 34 was completed, and these publications were issued. The 
Twenty-seventh Annual Report and Bulletins 39, 41, 42, 48, 46, and 47 were 
prepared for and submitted to the Government Printing Office. Of these at 
the close of the year Bulletin 42 was issued, while Bulletins 39 and 41, also 
Bulletin 38 (the proof reading of which occupied much time during the year), 
were substantially ready for the bindery. The Twenty-seventh Annual and Bul- 
letin 43 were in galley form, and considerable progress had been made in the 
