LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, 



Washington, D. C, Fehruary 23, 1917. 

 Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a paper entitled "Alsea 

 Texts and Myths," by Dr. Leo J. Frachtenberg, and to recommend 

 its pubHcation as a bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 

 Very respectfully, 



F. W. Hodge, 

 Etknologist-in- Charge . 

 Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 



Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 



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