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texts and 269 pages of translation, has been submitted and set 

 in type, forming 125 galleys. The texts include some mate- 

 rial collected by the late Dr. A. F. Chamberlain, which was 

 acquired by the bureau and was revised by Dr. Boas. 



Much time has been spent by Dr. Boas in work on his me- 

 moir, "Tsimshian Mythology," to accompany the thirty-first 

 annual report. During the fiscal year 1913-14 the tales them- 

 selves had been set up. During the year now under considera- 

 tion the manuscript of the discussion of this material was 

 completed and put in type; it forms pages 394 to 867 of the 

 annual report. In the mechanical work of preparing the 

 manuscript Dr. Boas was assisted by Miss H. A. Andrews, 

 who, besides the preparation of manuscript and proof reading, 

 did much of the laborious work of extracting and collating 

 material needed for the investigation. 



The manuscript on Eskimo mythology, intrusted to Walde- 

 mar Bogoras and accepted for publication, together with an 

 introduction by Mr. Ernest Hawkes, is held in abeyance, 

 owing to the impossibility at the present time of communicat- 

 ing with the author in Russia. 



Dr. L. J. Frachtenberg, special ethnologist, left Washington 

 on July 6, 1914, going directly to Oregon for the purpose of 

 concluding his investigations of the language, mythology, 

 and culture of the Kalapuya Indians, commenced during 

 the previous fiscal year. After a short trip to the Siletz 

 and Grande Ronde Agencies in northwestern Oregon for the 

 p\u"pose of interviewing all available informants, he pro- 

 ceeded to Chemawa, Oreg., where he conducted his Kalapuya 

 investigations until December, and completed them at the 

 Grande Ronde Agency between December 13 and 20, which 

 time was spent chiefly in the collection of linguistic material 

 for a comparative study of the Kalapuya dialects. Sj^ecial 

 attention was given to the Yamhill and Yonkalla variations. 

 Dr. Frachtenberg's field work proved highly successful. He 

 obtained 30 mji^hs, tales, historical narratives, and ethno- 

 graphic descriptions, told in the various Kalapuya dialects, 

 an unusually large amoiuit of grammatical notes, sufficient 

 material for a linguistic map showing the original distribu- 

 tion of the several Kalapuya dialects, and some data on 



