ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 15 
Handbook of American Indians and in the classification 
of the large body of material previously obtained relating 
to the tribes of the Great Plains. His extended article 
on Indian Missions, written for the Handbook, has been 
made the subject of a special reprint, a small edition of 
which was issued by the Bureau. Mr. Mooney has also 
given valuable assistance in connection with the corre- 
spondence of the Bureau, more especially that portion 
relating to the languages of the Algonquian stock. 
SPECIAL RESEARCHES 
For a number of years Dr. Franz Boas, assisted by a 
corps of philologists, has been engaged in the preparation 
of a work on the American languages, to be published as a 
bulletin of the Bureau, entitled “Handbook of American 
Indian Languages,” and it is expected that the manuscript of 
the first part will be submitted for publication at an early 
date. Of Part 1, sections relating to the languages of the 
Eskimo and the Iroquois alone remain incomplete. During 
the summer of 1906 Mr. Edward Sapir was engaged in col- 
lecting data for the handbook, on the language of the Takelma, 
residing at the Siletz Agency, Oregon, and toward the close 
of the year Mr. Leo J. Frachtenberg began similar studies 
among the Tutelo remnant on the Tuscarora Reservation in 
Ontario, Canada. 
Reports of the discovery of fossil remains of men of ex- 
tremely primitive type in the vicinity of Omaha, Nebraska, 
led to the assignment of Dr. Ale’ Hrdliéka, curator of 
physical anthropology in the National Museum, to the duty 
of visiting the University of Nebraska, at Lincoln, where the 
remains are preserved, and also the site of their exhumation. 
The examinations were made with the greatest care, and 
the results are embodied in Bulletin 33 of the Bureau, which 
was in press at the close of the fiscal year. The conclusion 
reached by Doctor Hrdliéka with respect to the age and 
character of these remains is that they are not geologically 
ancient, belonging rather to the mound-building period in 
the Mississippi Valley, and that, although a number of the 
