ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 17 



member of the Bureau's staff since 1882 and, as his memoirs 

 published by the Bureau attest, one of its most industrious 

 and prolific investigators. 



As the result of a special civil-service examination held 

 March 3, 1910, the staff of the Bureau was increased by the 

 appointment, as ethnologists, of Dr. Truman Michelson on 

 June 1 and of Dr. Paul Radin on June 3. 



Doctor Radin immediately made preparations to resume 

 his researches among the Winnebago Indians in Nebraska 

 and Wisconsin, commenced under personal auspices three 

 years before, and by the close of the fiscal year was making 

 excellent progress toward completing his studies of this 

 important Siouan group. 



About the same time Doctor Michelson departed for Mon- 

 tana with the purpose of studying the Blackfeet, Northern 

 Cheyenne, and Northern Arapaho, Algonquian tribes, whose 

 relations to the other members of the stock are not definitely 

 known. It is the intention that Doctor Michelson obtain a 

 view of the relations of the Algonquian tribes generally, in 

 order that he may become equipped for an exhaustive study 

 of the Delaware and Shawnee tribes, so important in the 

 colonial and later history of the United States. Doctor 

 Michelson reached the Blackfoot country on June 16, and 

 within a few days had recorded a considerable body of ethno- 

 logical, mythological, and linguistic material relating to the 

 Piegan division. 



SPECIAL RESEARCHES 



The special researches of the Bureau in the linguistic 

 field were conducted, as in the past, by Dr. Franz Boas, 

 honorary philologist, whose work during the fiscal year 

 resulted in bringing nearly to completion the first volume of 

 the Handbook of American Indian Languages. The whole 

 matter is in type, 735 pages were in practically final form at 

 the close of the fiscal year, and the sketches of only three 

 languages remained to be revised before paging. Besides 

 the purely technical work of revising and proof reading, the 

 most important work on the first volume was a thorough 

 revision of the Algonquian sketch by Dr. William Jones, who 



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