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In the office Dr. Michelson paid special attention to the observa- 

 tions on the Sauk and Fox by early writers, especially by the authors 

 in the Annals of the Propaganda Fide, and by Marston, Long, 

 Carver, Beltrami, and others. With the view of definitely settling the 

 question of the relationship of the Yurok and Wiyot languages of 

 California to the Algonquian linguistic stock, Dr. Michelson devoted 

 further study to the subject, reaching the conclusion that whether or 

 not further material would prove these languages to be divergent 

 members of Algonquian, the existing data do not warrant such a 

 classification. Dr. Michelson also devoted attention to the linguistic 

 classification of Potawatomi, based on certain grammatical treatises 

 by the late Father Gailland in possession of St. Mary's College at 

 St. Marys, Kans., which the bureau was permitted to copy through 

 the courtesy of Rev. George Worpenberg, S. J., librarian of the col- 

 lege. By these studies Dr. Michelson concludes from the verbal pro- 

 nouns of Potawatomi that it belongs to the Ojibwa division of the 

 central Algonquian languages, but that the language is further re- 

 moved from Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Algonkin than any of these is from 

 the others. 



Mr. John P. Harrington, ethnologist, became a member of the 

 staff of the bureau, with the approval of the Civil Service Commis- 

 sion, on February 20, from which time until the close of May he 

 finished 600 pages of manuscript and more than 3,000 slips of 

 linguistic information regarding the Chumash Indians of California, 

 the result of researches conducted by him before entering the service 

 of the bureau. He also has, in various stages of elaboration, a quan- 

 tity of other Chumash ethnologic and linguistic material in the 

 preparation of which for publication satisfactory progress is being 

 made. At the end of May Mr. Harrington proceeded to Santa Ines 

 Mission, where, am.ong its documents, he found an old manuscript 

 bearing the title " Padron que contiene todos las Neofitas de esta 

 Mision de la Purisima Concepcion con expresion de su edad, y par- 

 tida de Bautismo segun se halla hoy dia 1° de Enero de 1814," by. 

 Father Mariano Payeras, of the greatest importance to the study of 

 the former Chumash Indians of La Purisima and Santa Ines. A 

 complete copy of this splendid manuscript, which does not seem to 

 have been known to historians, was made by Mr. Harrington, who 

 also extracted a considerable amount of other material from the mis- 

 sion records. While at Santa Ines Mr. Harrington located the site 

 of the former large rancheria of Nojogui (which had not before been 

 known), and also the site of the rancheria of Itias, mentioned in the 

 records. On June 19 Mr. Harrington visited Arroyo Grande, where 

 he worked for a week with a poor, sick old woman, the sole survivor 

 of the San Luis Obispo Indians, for which reason, to use Mr. Plar- 

 rington's own expression, " the words of her language are precious 



