XXII BUREAU OF AMKRICAN ETHNOLOGY 



2. Dr Franz Boas: Grammatical notes on the Eskimo 

 (Eskimaiian stock). 



3. Dr Franz Boas: Grammatical notes on the Tsimshian 

 (Chimmcsyan stock). 



During the year the grammatical notes on the Shoshoni, by 

 Mr H. H. St Clair, 2d, have been revised. 



The general plan of the Handbook of American Indian Lan- 

 guages has undergone no material change, except in so far as 

 it was deemed advisable to add briefer articles on the gram- 

 mar of others of the remaining languages of the northern part 

 of the continent. These are the Tlingit, the Salish, the Kute- 

 nai, and the Chimakum. It is deemed advisable to add also 

 a sketch of one of the coast languages of Oregon which was 

 collected during the year 1904-5 by Mr St Clair, who sub- 

 mitted his material on the Coosa and Takclma of Oregon 

 during the present year. 



It was considered desirable to add also certain data relat- 

 ing to the formation of the noun in Chinook, which seemed 

 of importance, in order to elucidate some questions relating 

 to the fundamental traits of that famil}^ of languages. Since 

 all our information on this stock is derived from one inform- 

 ant, it was deemed essential to obtain additional material 

 from other sources and from another dialect. For this rea- 

 son preparations were made to send Mr E. Sapir to the 

 upper Columbia river to make a study of the Wasco. In the 

 preparation of this work the Kathlamet dictionar}^, based on 

 Bulletin 26, was arranged and copied. 



The work on the Southei'ii group of languages will require 

 long and energetic field work. So far only one of the lan- 

 guages of the Gulf states, the Yuchi, has been taken up, this 

 tribe being selected because it seems most likely to furnish 

 material that will be not only of linguistic value, but will 

 afford knowledge of the early history and customs of the 

 Southeast. This work has been intrusted to Mr Frank G. 

 Speck, who spent the summer of 1904 among the Yuchi tribe 

 and who retiu'ned to this field at the close of the fiscal year. 



