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had planned to make certain additions to the manuscript, 

 but whose unfortunate death in the Philippine Islands left 

 his researches on the Algonquian languages incomplete. 

 The revision was assigned to Dr. Truman Michelson, who 

 made a careful comparison between Doctor Jones's descrip- 

 tion of the language and his published collection of texts. 



Considerable progress was made on the preparation of 

 the second volume of the Handbook of American Indian 

 Languages. Owing to expansion of a number of the original 

 sketches, which was due to the lapse of time since they were 

 first recorded, the first volume had increased so much in size 

 that it became necessary to relegate the Takelma to the 

 second volume. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year Dr. Leo J. Frachtenberg 

 carried on investigations under the direction of Doctor Boas 

 among the Coos Indians of Oregon. He succeeded in col- 

 lecting a considerable body of texts from the survivors, 

 and at the same time revised the material collected several 

 years ago by Mr. H. H. St. Clair, 2d. Doctor Frachtenberg 

 completed his studies of the grammar of the language, and 

 the manuscript of this sketch for the second volume was 

 delivered and is partly in type. Toward the end of the year 

 Doctor Frachtenberg made preparatory studies in the Alsea 

 language of Oregon, based on manuscript texts collected 

 a number of years ago by Prof. Livingston Farrand on 

 an expedition due to the generosity of the late Mr. Henry 

 Villard. The completion of the ethnological research work 

 among the Alsea has been provided for by a contribution 

 of funds by Mrs. Villard, which will make it possible to 

 complete also the linguistic investigation of the tribe during 

 the field season of 1910. In June Doctor Frachtenberg 

 visited two survivors of the Willopah tribe who were said 

 to remember the language, but unfortunately only about 300 

 words could be obtained, and practically no grammatical 

 forms. 



Further preparatory work on the second volume of the 

 Handbook of American Indian Languages was carried on by 

 Mr. James Teit, who elucidated the details of the distribution 



