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Aj)art from my o>vu inveatigatiuiis, the ])riiicipiil authorities from which 

 information has been derived are Wrangell,* IIolmberg-,t Ross and Gibbs,t 

 l]endel,§ and various minor papers by Erman and Markhani, Eink, and 

 others in the Arctic Papers|| of 1875, and especially a most satisfactory and 

 lucid paper by Dr. John Simpson, R N., which bears not only internal evi- 

 dence of cai»e and accuracy, but is confirmed by Avhat I have individually 

 l)een able to learn of the people treated of by the author. 



Several papers of interest ha^'e appeared from the pen of M. Alphonse 

 Tinart in relation to Alaska natives, but these convey little new information, 

 excepting- from a philological standpoint. The Avork of Mr. H. Bancroft, 

 wliich has lately appeared, on the "Native Races of the Pacific Coast", so 

 far as it relates to the people ■\\'ith whom I am familiar is cliiefly valuable 

 for its numerous references to other works. Its arrangement is purely geo- 

 gra])hical, and unwarranted by the characteristics or kinship of the people 

 described. 



A sketch not materially difi'ei'ing from the arrangement now proposed 

 was given by me in the Proceedings of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, Salem meeting, 1869, and aniplified with fuller 

 vocabulaiies in 1870 in Alaska and its Resources. Numerous additions and 

 corrections, as well as personal observation of much before taken at second 

 hand, have jdaced it in my power to enlarge and improve my original 

 • arrangement. This is the object of the present paper. 



In 1869, 1 proposed for the Aleuts and people of Inufiit stock collectively 

 the term Orariaus, as indicative of their coastwise distribution, and as sup- 

 idying the need of a general term to designate a very well-defined race, 

 which, though acknowledged as such by some ethnologists, had not received 

 the general recognition which it called for. In referring to the various 

 groups of people under i)articular stocks, I have introduced as far as prac- 

 ticable a system of synonymy, showing ajiproximately the various names 

 applied to the same grouii by other authors, which may be of service in 



* Baer and Helmorsen, Beitr. St. Petersburg, 8vo, lH3t). 



tEtliuogr. Skiz. Act. Hels., 4to, 18.55. 



t Smithsouiau Koport, lS(i(i. 



§ Proc. Agassiz Inst., .Siicrameiito, Cal., l^'/o. 



II Ro^al Ocogi-. Soc, Loiidou, 8vo, 1B70. 



