ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XLIII 



The bibliography of the Chinookan languages (including 

 the Chinook jargon) was sent to press in October and proof 

 revision was finished in April. In the compilation of this bib- 

 liography much attention was given to the origin and growth 

 of the Chinook jargon, or "trade language," of the northwestern 

 coast, which has come to be an international dialect, affording 

 the established means of communication between the whites 

 and the several native tribes occupying the region between the 

 state of Washington and Alaska, whose languages are many 

 and 1 diverse. While this bibliography (the seventh of the 

 series) comprises but 94 pages and includes only 270 titular 

 entries, it is believed that it will prove no less valuable to 

 linguistic students than the earlier numbers, since it is sub- 

 stantially a record of a dead language, there being but one 

 man now living who fully understands the tongue on which 

 the linguistic relations of the family rest. The edition of this 

 bulletin was delivered by the Public Printer in May. 



The manuscript of the bibliography of the Salishan 

 languages was sent to press in March, and proof revision is 

 in progress. This work exceeds in volume the Chinookan bib- 

 liography, and, like that, deals with the records of one of the 

 highly interesting group of native tongues of our Pacific 

 region, which, though doomed to early extinction, are among 

 the most important sources of information concerning the 

 development of language. 



Toward the close of the year Mr Pilling was occupied in 

 preparing for the press the bibliography of the Wakashan 

 languages, the ninth number of the series, which is now well 

 advanced. 



The value of the several bibliographies has been greatly 

 enhanced, and their preparation has been materially facilitated 

 through the cooperation of linguistic students in different 

 parts of the country. Special acknowledgments are due Dr 

 Horatio Hale, the well-known philologist, and Mr J. K. Gill, 

 author of a dictionary of the Chinook jargon, for aid in the 

 preparation of the Chinookan bibliography; and Mr Pilling 

 acknowledges equal obligations to the Reverend Myron Eells 

 and Dr Franz Boas for information concerning the Chinookan 

 and Salishan languages. 



