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shian Texts, and Swanton's Haida and Tlingit Texts, sub- 

 sequently published, form a part, but at the time Swanton's 

 Texts appeared it was believed by Secretary Langley that 

 material of this kind was too technical in character to war- 

 rant publication in a governmental series. It was, there- 

 fore, decided to discontinue the text series in the bulletins 

 of the bureau and to divert them to the Publications of the 

 American Ethnological Society and ihv Columbia Univer- 

 sity Contributions to Anthropology. Other series were 

 commenced by the University of California and the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania. The method of publication pur- 

 sued at the present time, though different from that first 

 planned, is acceptable, since all the material is accessible 

 to students, and the bureau is saved the expense of 

 publication. 



Doctor Boas has been enabled to base all the sketches 

 in the first volume of his handbook on accompanying text 

 series, as follows : 



(1) Athapascan. Texts published by the University of 

 California. 



(2) Tlingit. Texts published by the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology, but too late to be used systematically. 



(3) Haida. Texts published by the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology. 



(4) Tsimshian. Texts published b}^ the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology and the American Ethnological So- 

 ciety. 



(5) Kwakiutl. Texts published by the Jesup Expedi- 

 tion and in the Coliunbia University series. 



(6) Chinook. Texts published by the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology. 



(7) Maidu. Texts published by the American Ethno- 

 logical Society, but too late to be used. 



(8)' Algonquian. Texts published by the American 

 Ethnological Society. 



(9) Sioux. Texts in Contributions to North Amei'ican 

 Ethnology. 



(10) Eskimo. Texts in " Meddelelser om Grpnland," 

 but not used systematically. 



