8 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



Mr. Holmes found it impracticable to give attention to field 

 research during the remainder of 1909. Good progress was 

 made in the preparation of the Handbook of American 

 Archeology, to which he had devoted much attention during 

 the year and to which reference has been made in previous 

 reports. 



The systematic ethnological researches of the Bureau 

 were continued as in previous years with the regular force 

 of the Bureau, consisting of eight ethnologists, increased 

 to ten toward the close of the year by the appointment of 

 two additional members of the staff, and finally decreased 

 by the death of one member. In addition, the services of 

 several specialists in their respective fields were enlisted 

 for special work, as follows : 



Prof. Franz Boas, honorary philologist, with several assist- 

 ants, for research in the languages of the American aborigi- 

 nes, particularly with the view of incorporating the results 

 in the Handbook of American Indian Languages. 



Miss Alice C. Fletcher and Mr. Francis La Flesche, for 

 continuing the revision of the proofs of their monograph 

 on the Omaha Indians, to be published as the "accom- 

 panying paper" of the Twenty-seventh Annual Report. 



Miss Frances Densmore, for researches in Indian music. 



Mr. J. P. Dunn, for studies of the tribes of the Algonquian 

 family residing or formerly resident in the Middle West. 



Rev. Dr. George P. Donehoo, for investigations in the 

 history, geography, and ethnology of the tribes formerly 

 living in western Pennsylvania and southwestern New 

 York, for incorporation in the Handbook of American 

 Indians. 



Mr. William R. Gerard, for studies of the etymology of 

 Algonquian place and tribal names and of terms that have 

 found their way into the English language, for incorporation 

 in the same work. 



Prof. H. M. Ballou, in conjunction with Dr. Cyrus Thomas, 

 for bibliographic research in connection with the List of 

 Works Relating to Hawaii, in course of preparation for 

 publication. 



