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Although Doctor Boas has urged the desirability of un- 

 dertakiug the publication of the series of vocabularies, no 

 definite steps have yet been taken toward the realization of 

 this plan, owing largely to lack of funds for the employ- 

 ment of assistants in preparing the materials. It is hoped, 

 however, that such a series of vocabularies, based on the 

 ])ublished grammars and on the series of texts above re- 

 ferred to, may b6 prepared for publication in the near 

 future. Much of the preliminary work has been done. 

 There are, for example, extended manuscript dictionaries 

 of the Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Chinook, and Sioux, 

 but none of them is yet ready for the printer. 



The work on Part 2 of the Handbook of American Indian 

 Languages is progressing satisfactorily. The sketch of the 

 Takelma is in page form (pp. 1-296), but Doctor Boas has 

 undertaken the correlation of this sketch with the Takelma 

 Texts, which meanwhile have been published by the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, and a considerable amount of woi'k 

 remains to be done to finish this revision. The Coos gram- 

 mar is in galleys. The Coos Texts are at the present writ- 

 ing being printed by the American Ethnological Society, 

 and here also references are being inserted. Dr. Leo J. 

 Frachtenberg has continued his collection of material for 

 the handbook with commendable energy and intelligence. 

 The field work has been financially aided by Columbia Uni- 

 versity, partly through a gift made by Mrs. Henry Villard 

 and partly through funds provided by Mr. Homer E. Sar- 

 gent. It has also been possible to utilize for the work on 

 the Alsea the collections made at a former time by Prof. 

 Livingston Farrand on an expedition supported by the late 

 Mr. Henry Villard. On his last expedition Doctor Frach- 

 tenbei'g was able to determine that the Siuslaw is an inde- 

 pendent stock, although morphologically affiliated with the 

 Alsea, Coos, and Siuslaw group. He also collected exten- 

 sive material on the .41sea and Molala. 



The most important result, which is appearing more a?id 

 more clearly from the investigations carried out under the 

 direction of Doctor Boas, lies in the fact that it will be pos- 

 sible to classify American languages on a basis wider than 



