NO. 17 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, IQI6 D7 
Kroeber, of the University of California, and with Mr. John P. 
Harrington, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, in regard to the 
relations of the researches of the Bureau of American Ethnology 
with those of the University of California, especially with respect 
to the ethnology and linguistics of the Indian tribes of northern and 
southeastern California and the adjacent regions. This confer- 
ence took place on December 1 and 2, and a report embodying its 
results was sent to the Ethnologist-in-Charge of the Bureau of 
American Ethnology. While in San Francisco, Dr. Frachtenberg 
attended the meeting of the Pacific branch of the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science, reading four papers that 
dealt with the ethnology, mythology, and philology of the Indian 
tribes of Oregon and Washington. Dr. Frachtenberg returned 
to Lapush on December 9, resuming his Quileute field-work. 
In the latter part of November it became evident that the appro- 
priation granted Dr. Frachtenberg in the beginning of the fiscal 
year would not be sufficient to enable him to bring the field-work 
among the Quileute to a successful conclusion. Fortunately, an 
offer for cooperation was received from Columbia University, 
through the courtesy of Prof. Franz Boas, whereby Dr. Frachten- 
berg was enabled to continue his field-work. The Bureau accepted 
this offer, with the understanding that Dr. Frachtenberg would 
devote this sum to a comprehensive study of the music of the 
Quileute Indians, with special reference to the problem of song- 
variation. Dr. Frachtenberg is, at the present writing, conducting 
this investigation. He expects to collect about 80 songs, taking down 
the tune, burden, and translation of each song and obtaining the 
identical songs at separate times by the same and by distinct individ- 
uals. Dr. Frachtenberg expects to complete this work by the latter 
part of January, 1917, and will then return to Washington. 
STUDIES AMONG THE INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA 
Mr. John P. Harrington, ethnologist, was engaged during the 
year in continuing his exhaustive study of the Chumashan Indians of 
the Santa Barbara region of California. January was spent at 
Berkeley, Cal., where linguistic and historical manuscripts in posses- 
sion of the Bancroft lbrary were copied and studied, through the 
courtesy of the University of California. In the course of the 
summer this material was thoroughly worked over, transliterated, 
and corrected with the aid of Indian informants. 
At the end of January Mr. Harrington returned to the Southwest 
Museum, Los Angeles, where he spent the months of February and 
