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in the writings of Champlain, Sagard, and the Jesuit Fathers. 

 The expulsion of the Potawatomi, Sauk, Foxes, and the Tril^e 

 of the Fork from their earhest known habitat in Michigan by 

 the Neutrals and their Ottawa allies — not by the Iroquois, as 

 commonly asserted — was determined, and the most probable 

 course of their retreat fixed. Similar research was conducted 

 among early records to determine as far as possible the iden- 

 tity of the tribes whose names are recorded on the Dutch 

 "Carte Figurative" of 1614, which represents them as living 

 along the ' middle and upper Susquehanna River and its 

 western affluents. As these names were erroneously identi- 

 fied as Spanish in origin, and as such adopted without ques- 

 tion, much confusion and many inaccuracies have arisen in 

 recent historical works. 



Mr. Hewitt continued the collection and elaboration of 

 linguistic data for the sketch of Iroquois grammar as exem- 

 plified in the Onondaga and the Mohawk, with parallel illus- 

 trative examples from the Seneca, Cayuga, and Tuscarora. 

 He also partially rewrote the articles "Seneca" and "Sauk" 

 for the Handbook of American Indians, and endeavored, so 

 far as was feasible, to incorporate in the remaining galley 

 proofs of this work the results of his later researches. Mr. 

 Hewitt was also called on to prepare data of an ethnologic 

 nature for official correspondence. 



At the beginning of the year Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, ethnolo- 

 gist, was in the field, having just completed the excavation 

 and repair of the cliff-ruin known as the " Spruce- tree House," 

 in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Before the close of 

 July he returned to Washington and commenced the prepara- 

 tion of a report on this work, and undertook to complete the 

 reports of unfinished researches of previous years. Dming 

 his stay in Washington his services were enlisted in the build- 

 ing of a large number of models of the ruins for the Alaska- 

 Yukon-Pacific Exposition at Seattle and in supervising the 

 painting of panoramic views of the Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde 

 National Park for the same purpose. 



In June Doctor Fewkes again took up his work among the 

 Mesa Verde ruins, and by the close of the year had made 

 excellent progress in uncovering and reenforcing the crum- 



