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texts collected by Doctor Gatschet. The mythology of these 

 Indians, who are almost extinct, constitutes a connecting 

 link between the tribes of the coast and those east of the 

 Rocky Mountains. While we possess numerous works deal- 

 ing with the mythology of the Indians of the northwest 

 coast and of the Great Plains, nothing has yet been pub- 

 lished on the folklore of the l^ril^es that inhabit the area 

 between the Coast Range and the Rocky Mountains. Hence 

 a volume on the mythology of the Kalapuya (and also 

 Molala) Indians will be a welcome contribution to our 

 knowledge of the folklore of the North American Indians. 



SPECIAL RESEARCHES. 



Dr. Franz Boas, honorary philologist, has been engaged in 

 the correction of the proof of part 1 of his volume on the 

 Kwakiutl-English, which has been assigned to the Thirty- 

 fifth Annual Report. 



For various reasons part 2 of the Handbook of American 

 Indian Languages has been delayed. 



Good progress has been made by Doctor Boas on the 

 dialects and distribution of the Salish tribe, much work 

 having been done on the maps. This work, which is based 

 on field work supported by Mr. Homer E. Sargent, was 

 almost completed by Doqtor Haeberlin, whose unfortunate 

 death has somewhat curtailed the work on these tribes. A 

 very important work on the basketry of the Salish tribes, 

 funds for which were also provided through the generosity 

 of Mr. Sargent, has made good progress. 



Prof. W. H. Holmes, of the National iNIuseum, accompanied 

 by j\Ir. DeLancey GiU, of the biu-eau, made a brief visit to the 

 Aberdeen Proving, Station, iMd., where Indian remains had 

 been reported in excavations for Government buildings. He 

 also continued the preparation of the Handbook of American 

 Antiquities, part 1 of which vdW soon be published as Bulletin 

 60 of the bureau. 



Pro\'ision was made out of the appropriations of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology for a brief archeological 

 recomiaissance in the WalhaUa Plateau overlooking the 



