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siclerable time. This research covers the whole period 

 from the first occupancy of the country by white people 

 to the present time, and includes the entire territory from 

 the Rio Grande to the Arctic. To make possible system- 

 atic treatment the area covered has been mapped into 

 about 25 sections, each of which constitutes approximately 

 a single geographical and historic unit for separate treat- 

 ment, although numerous migrations and removals and 

 the frequent formation of new combinations necessitate a 

 constant overlapping of the work of the sections. Sev- 

 eral of the eastern areas have been completed and more 

 or less progress has been made with each of the others. 

 More recently Mr. Mooney has concentrated attention on 

 Alaska and western Canada, for the Arctic parts of which 

 Mr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Dr. Waldemar Jochelson 

 have generously furnished new and valuable data. In this 

 memoir the plan is to include chapters on notable epi- 

 demics, vital statistics, and race admixture, and the work 

 is intended to appear as a monograph on the subject. 



On June 18, 1913, Mr. Mooney proceeded to the Eastern 

 Cherokee Indians in North Carolina to continue his in- 

 vestigations of the medical and religious rituals of that 

 tribe, commenced a number of years ago, as it was deemed 

 wise to finish this part of his Cherokee studies as soon as 

 practicable by reason of the changes that are so rapidly 

 taking place among this people. Mr. Mooney was still in 

 the field at the close of the fiscal year. 



Dr. John R. Swanton, ethnologist, continued, both in the 

 field and at the office, his studies of the Indians formerly 

 occupying the territory of the Southern States. He spent 

 the month of November, 1912, with the Alabama and 

 Koasati Indians in Polk County, Tex., where he recorded 

 250 pages of texts in the dialects spoken by these two 

 tribes, corrected several texts obtained on earlier expedi- 

 tions, and added materially to his general ethnological in- 

 formation regarding them. In December Dr. Swanton 

 proceeded to Oklahoma, where he obtained about 50 pages 

 of text in Hitchiti, a language now confined to a very few 



