ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 13 
Indians, which will consist of two papers: A Grammatical 
Sketch of the Kalapuya Languages and Kalapuya Myths 
and Texts. The Kalapuya grammatical material consists 
of extended field notes gathered in 1913 and 1914, and of 
grammatical notes on the Atfalati collected by Dr. Gatschet 
in 1877. Dr. Gatschet’s material, comprising 421 pages of 
field notes, is of inestimable value; indeed. it is to the efforts 
of this untiring scholar that we owe the preservation of this 
most important dialect of the Kalapuya language, since he 
obtained his material, which includes also some valuable 
ethnologic data, from the last full-blood Atfalati. Dr. 
Frachtenberg’s own material comprises several thousand 
grammatical forms, phrases, and vocables, and 32 native 
texts with interlinear translation—630 pages in all. The 
preparation of these linguistic data, as well as the work on 
the Kalapuya myths and texts, is well under way. Six of 
the texts, comprising 36 pages, have been prepared for pub- 
lication; five of these are provided with interlinear trans- 
lation and with voluminous notes in which attention is 
directed to the occurrence of similar myths among other 
tribes. During his studies of the Kalapuya languages Dr. 
Frachtenberg discovered that there is sufficient reason to 
believe that the Kalapuya, Takelman, and Chinookan lan- 
guages are genetically related, the determination being based 
not only on lexical but also on structural and morphological 
material. This discovery tends to establish a connecting 
link between some of the languages of California and most 
of the languages spoken in Oregon. 
During the last two weeks of the fiscal year Dr. F rachten- 
berg was temporarily detailed for special work in the Bureau 
of Investigation of the Department of Justice. 
SPECIAL RESEARCHES 
Dr. Franz Boas, honorary philologist, completed the prepa- 
ration of his manuscript on the ethnology of the Kwakiutl 
Indians, about 2,700 pages of which was submitted to the 
bureau and assigned as the accompanying paper of the 
Thirty-fifth Annual Report, the composition of which was 
commenced before the close of the fiscal year. At the same 
