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remnants in Oregon, more particularly the Alsea, Coosa, 
and Takilma. 
Under Doctor Boas’s supervision Mr William Jones con- 
tinued his linguistic work among the Sauk and Foxes, 
making a large collection of texts, all of which have been 
copied, and elaborating a comprehensive grammar of the 
language of these tribes. In these studies Mr Jones has 
succeeded in carrying out the analysis of the Algonquian 
language in a much more satisiactory manner than did 
any of the older authors, most of whom devoted their 
attention chiefly to works designed for religious instrue - 
tion. It is expected that the manuscript of his gram- 
matical studies will be completed by the end of the 
present calendar year. In the spring of 1903 Mr Jones 
made investigations of the language of the Kickapoo, 
obtaining a considerable amount of linguistic material 
among that tribe. 
Besides directing the work of these assistants, Doctor 
Boas has continued his investigation of the grammar of 
the Tsimshian and Chinook languages. 
The ripening of linguistic studies in America initiates 
a new era in philologic research. Powell gave great 
impetus to the work, and numerous other students have 
devoted their energies assiduously to the important task 
of recording and classifying the American languages and 
of applying the results to the elucidation of the history of 
the languages and peoples. The ultimate object of the 
work conducted under the direction of Doctor Boas is a 
morphological classification of the languages of America. 
The enumeration of linguistic stocks published by Major 
Powell in the Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau is 
based entirely on vocabularies, many of which are very 
brief. By means of the study of the morphology of lan- 
guages more remote relationships may be traced and the 
results of lexicographic comparisons may be confirmed. 
The grammatical studies that are carried on at present 
will therefore serve to elucidate many of the obscure parts 
of the earlier history of our country and the significance 
