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PARTS OF THE BODY, ETO., OF MAMMALS. 
Having obtained the names of mammals, the student should proceed 
to obtain parts and organs of the body, and the following suggestion is 
made in the hope it may prove useful. Make a present of a beef or mut- 
ton to the Indians. This will secure their good will and obtain much 
assistance in the work, and at the same time make a special occasion for 
collecting that very interesting class of words relating to the parts and 
organs of the body. Care should be taken that the animal is dissected 
slowly, and, as the parts are given out, obtain the words called for and 
such others as may be convenient. ' 
The words can afterward be verified by killing a rabbit, squirrel, or 
other animal. 
§ 13.—_PLANTS, &c. 
The Indians have names for all the species and important varieties of 
trees and other plants with which they are acquainted. It does not seem 
best to give a specific list here, but the collector should obtain the names 
of as many plants as possible, and insert them in the schedule. The 
names of different fruits, such as berries, nuts, seeds, &c., should also be 
obtained. 
There will usually be terms signifying pine forest, oak forest, cotton- 
wood forest, &¢., which should be noted. 
The method of classifying plants also should be obtained, and the 
name of each class recorded. The Indians will have mythic stories of 
each plant with which they are familiar, explaining how and why certain 
ones were given for food, why certain plants were given for smoking, 
others as medicine, &c., and explaining the peculiarities in the habits of 
many plants, curious forms, curiously formed leaves, why some plants grow 
in water, &e. 
§ 14—GEOGRAPHIO TERMS. 
Notes should be made of such geographic terms as are found in the 
country inhabited by the tribe studied. 
Wherever a tribe of Indians yet inhabit their prisean home mythic 
stories will be found connected with and explaining every geographic 
