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from completing the final revision of the manuscript of her memoir 

 as she had hoped, and it remained unfinished at the time of her un- 

 fortunate death, on June 24, in the suburbs of Washington. It is 

 believed, however, that when an opportunity of fully examining Mrs. 

 Stevenson's completed manuscript and notes is afforded, it will be 

 found in condition for publication after the customary editorial 

 treatment, Mrs. Stevenson was an efficient and industrious investi- 

 gator of the ethnology of the Pueblo Indians, to which subject she 

 liad devoted many years of her life, giving special attention to the 

 Sia, the Zuili, and the Tewa Tribes. Three memoirs on these Indians, 

 published in the annual reports, are replete with information on the 

 subjects of which they treat, and there is no doubt that when Mrs. 

 Stevenson's memoir on the Tewa Indians finally appears much 

 \' aluable knowledge will be added to that which she has already given 

 on the sedentary Indians of the extreme Southwest. 



With the opening of the fiscal year Dr. Truman Michelson pro- 

 ceeded to Wisconsin in the hope of obtaining ethnologic- and lin- 

 guistic information regarding the Stockbridge Indians residing in 

 that State. It was found that, with respect to the language of this 

 remnant tribe, about a dozen members remembered isolated words, 

 but only one could dictate connected texts, half a dozen of which 

 were recorded. Although knowledge of the language is now too 

 limited to enable restoration of the grammar, enough material was 

 obtained to show that Stockbridge was intimately related to Pequot 

 and Natick, as well as to Delaware-Munsee. The Stockbridges have 

 long since abandoned all their native customs and beliefs, conse- 

 quently their ethnology may be regarded as beyond recovery. 



While in Wisconsin Dr. Michelson procured also ethnologic and 

 linguistic notes on the Menominee. A visit to the Brotherton In- 

 dians resulted in the acquirement of little information excepting 

 historical data, as these people have become greatly modified. 



Dr. Michelson next visited Tama, Iowa, for the purpose of renew- 

 ing his researches among the Fox Indians, to which he has been de- 

 voting his energies for some time. He was especially successful in 

 obtaining accounts of the mythical origin ascribed to the Fox people, 

 given in the form of rituals, and he gave attention also to the 

 phonetics of the Fox language. A noteworthy result of Dr. Michel- 

 son's Fox investigations was the acquirement, through Horace Powa- 

 shiek, of a complete translation of the two most important Fox 

 myths — the Culture Hero and Mother of All the Earth. 



At the request of the Davenport Academy of Sciences, Dr. Michel- 

 son conducted some archeological excavations for that institution at 

 its own expense, leave of absence having been granted him for that 

 purpose. En route to Washington, he examined the Sauk and Fox 

 collections in the Field Museum of Natural History at Chicago. 



