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the expeclition, however, was the discovery at Mai'ksville, 

 Louisiana, of a woman who remembers a large amount of 

 the Ofo language formerly spoken on Yazoo River. As 

 large a vocabulary of this laiiguage as possible was recorded. 



In the office Doctor Swanton completed the proof-reading 

 of his work " Tlingit myths and texts," which was ready for 

 the press at the close of tlie year. He completed also a 

 bulletin dealing with " Indian tribes of the lower Mississippi 

 VaUey and adjacent coast of the (Juh of Mexico," and read 

 proofs of the same. Additional work was accomplished as 

 follows: The editing of the late J. O. Dorsey's material on 

 the Biloxi language (in press), and the proof-i-eading of the 

 same; the copying of texts collected during the field expedi- 

 tion above refen-ed to, and incorporating the linguistic 

 material then obtained with the material pi-eviously col- 

 lected in the Natcliez. Attacapa, Chitimacha, and Tunica 

 languages, and the copying on cards of the Ofo vocabulary; 

 the reading of galley proofs of sketches of the gi'amniar of 

 the Haida and the Tlingit for the Handbook of Indian 

 Languages; assistance rendered Doctor Thomas in pre- 

 paring for publi(!ation a bulletin on the languages of 

 Mexico and Central America, and work incidental to the 

 preparation for publication of Byington's Choctaw Dic- 

 tionary. 



Ml". J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, was occupied in the office 

 diu-ing the entire year. For a large portion of the time he 

 was engaged in amending and transcribing the Onondaga 

 text which, with a long supplement, is to form Part II of his 

 Ii'oquoian Cosmology, and in supplying an interlinear ren- 

 dering and a free translation of the text. From his researches 

 in connection with the preparation of articles for the Hand- 

 book of American Indians he anived at facts which 

 greatly modify hitherto accepted views regarding the location 

 and interrelations of the tribes around Lakes Huron and 

 Michigan. In this connection he pm'sued extended studies 

 of the early historj^ of the Potawatomi, Mascoutens, Kick- 

 apoo, Sauk, Foxes, Miami, and the " Nation de la Fourche," 

 or "Tribe of the Fork," in an effort to identify these tribes 

 with those known to the earlv Hiu'ons hv names which occur 



