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to a reasonable rounding out of the work among the tribes. 

 These researches were distributed as follows : 



Regular force: Matilda Coxe Stevenson, the Pueblo tribes; 

 James Mooney, the Great Plains tribes; J. N. B. Hewitt, the 

 Iroquoian tribes; J. R. Swanton, the Southern tribes; F. W, 

 Hodge, literary researches for the Handbook of the Indians; 

 J. W. Fewkes, archeology of Southwestern tribes; W. H. 

 Holmes, technology of the tribes; Cyrus Thomas, bibliog- 

 raphy of Hawaii. 



Collaborators: Franz Boas and eight assistants, the lan- 

 guages of the tribes; Ales Hrdlif'ka, the physical anthro- 

 pology of the tribes; Frances Densmore, ceremony and 

 songs of the Ojibwa tribes; J. P. Dunn, linguistics of the 

 Algonquian tribes of the Middle West; N. B. Emerson, the 

 Hawaiians; H. M. Ballon, the Hawaiians; H. E. Bolton, 

 the tribes of Texas; J. P. Reagan, Northwest Coast tribes; 

 Alice C. Fletcher, the Omaha tribe; Francis La Flesche, the 

 Omaha tribe; W. R. Gerard, etymology of Indian names. 



(B) The summarizing of the materials now available 

 relating to the tribes was initiated by the preparation of 

 the Handbook of the Indians, which assumes to cover the 

 whole ground in brief articles arranged in alphabetical order. 

 Its preparation has led to a clearer understanding of the 

 work done and to be done, and the researches now in hand 

 contemplate the preparation of a series of handbooks, each 

 to be devoted to a full presentation of a single branch of the 

 subject, as follows: 



(a) Handbook of the Tribes: History, distribution, settle- 

 ments, population, etc., of each stock, tribe, and minor 

 group. Preliminary assemblage of the data is embraced in 

 the present Handbook of American Indians, of which Part 1 

 is pu1)lished and Part 2 almost ready. 



(b) Handliook of Languages: Part 1 now in press, Part 2 

 in preparation. As several hundred languages are to be con- 

 sidered, a number of years will be required to complete the 

 work. 



(c) Handbook of Race History: Physical and mental char- 

 acters, phj^siology, pathology-, medicine, etc. Researches in 

 hand, but requiring extensive additional investigation. 



