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shiek, of a complete translation of the two most important 

 Fox mjrths— the ("iilture Hero and Mother of All the P'arth. 

 At the request of the Davenport Academy of Sciences, 

 Dr. Michelson conchicted some archeological excavations for 

 that institution at its own expense, leave of absence having 

 been granted him for that purpose. En route to Washington, 

 he examined the Sauk and Fox collections in the Field 

 Museum of Natural Historj^ at Chicago. 



In the office Dr. Michelson paid special attention to the 

 observations on the Sauk and Fox by early writers, especially 

 by the authors in the Annals of the Propaganda Fide, and by 

 Marston, Long, Carver, Beltrami, and others. With the 

 view of definitely settling the cjuestion of the relationship of 

 the Yurok and Wiyot languages of California to the Algon- 

 quian linguistic stock. Dr. Michelson devoted further study 

 to the subject, reaching the conclusion that whether or not 

 further material would prove these languages to be divergent 

 members of Algonquian, the existing data do not warrant 

 such a classification. Dr. Michelson also devoted attention 

 to the linguistic classification of Potawatomi, based on cer- 

 tain grainmatical treatises by the late Father Gailland in 

 possession of St. Mary's College at St. Marys, Kans., which 

 the bureau was permitted to copy through the courtesy of 

 Rev. George Worpenberg, S. J., librarian of the college. By 

 these studies Dr. Michelson concludes from the verbal pro- 

 nouns of Potawatomi that it belongs to the Ojibwa division 

 of the central Algonquian languages, but that the language 

 is further removed from Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Algonkin than 

 any of these is from the others. 



Mr. John P. Harrington, ethnologist, became a member of 

 the staff of the bureau, with the approval of the Civil Service 

 Commission, on February 20, from which time until the close 

 of May he finished 600 pages of manuscript and more than 

 3,000 slips of linguistic information regarding the (^humash 

 Indians of California, the result of researches conducted by 

 him before entering the service of the bureau. He also has, 

 in various stages of elaboration, a quantity of other Chumash 

 ethnologic and linguistic material in the preparation of 

 which for publication satisfactory progress is Ijeing made. 



