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At the end of May Mr. Harrington proceeded to Santa Ines 

 Mission, where, among its documents, he found an old man- 

 uscript bearing the title "Padron que contiene todos las 

 Neofitas de esta Mision de la Purisima Concepcion con ex- 

 presion de su edad, y partida de Bautismo segun se halla hoy 

 dia 1° de Enero de 1814," by Father Mariano Payeras, of the 

 greatest importance to the study of the former Chumash 

 Indians of La Purisima and Santa Ines. A complete copy 

 of this splendid manuscript, which does not seem to have 

 been known to historians, was made by Mr. Harrington, who 

 also extracted a considerable amount of other material from 

 the mission records, ^\^^ile at Santa Ines Mr. Harrington 

 located the site of the former large rancheria of Nojogui 

 (which had not before been known), and also the site of the 

 rancheria of Itias, mentioned in the records. On June 19 

 Mr. Harrington visited Arroyo Grande, where he worked for 

 a week with a poor, sick old woman, the sole survivor of the 

 San Luis Obispo Indians, for which reason, to use Mr. Har- 

 rington's own expression, "the words of her language are 

 precious beyond the power of money to buy," especially as 

 her speech is the most archaic of all the Chumashan dialects. 

 For the convenience of his field studies Mr. Harrington has 

 established headquarters at Los Angeles, where he has been 

 granted the facilities of the Southwest Museum by the cour- 

 tesy of its officials. 



SPECIAL RESEARCHES 



The preparation of the second volume of the " Handbook 

 of American Indian Languages," under the editorship of Dr. 

 Franz Boas, honorary philologist, has progressed slowly, on 

 account of the impossibility of sending proofs to Russia, 

 where the author of the section on the Chukchee and Eskimo 

 resides. The chapter on Siuslaw, by Dr. Frachtenberg, has 

 been corrected and made up in pages, forming pages 431 to 

 605 of the second volume. At the beginning of the year Dr. 

 Boas concluded his collection of Kutenai material, which was 

 studied preliminary to the writing of the grammar of this 

 language. The texts collected by him were written out, and 

 the completed manuscript, consisting of 263 pages of Indian 



