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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XV. No. 368. 



' The Thompson Indians of British Co- 

 lumbia ' : James Teit. Edited by Franz 

 Boas. 



' Basketry Designs of the Salish In- 

 dians ' : Livingston Faerand. 



' Archeology of the Thompson River 

 Region ' : Harlan I. Smith. 



' Traditions of the Chilcotin Indians ' : 

 Livingston Farrand. 



' Cairns of British Columbia and Wash- 

 ington ' : Harlan I. Smith and Gerard 



POWKE. 



' Traditions of the Quinault Indians ' : 

 Livingston Farrand. 



' Kvi^akiutl Texts ' : Franz Boas and 

 George Hunt. 



■ The Decorative Art of the Amur 

 Tribes ' : Berthold Lauper. 



The manuscript for a number of addi- 

 tional monographs is completed, and 

 others are in preparation. It is estimated, 

 at the present time, that the results of the 

 expedition will fill eight volumes of the 

 Museum Memoirs. 



The Museum is also carrying on VFork 

 in China, which has been provided for by 

 the generosity of a friend of the institution 

 who desires his name to be withheld. This 

 work has been placed in charge of Dr. 

 Berthold Laufer, who went to China in 

 July, 1901, and is carrying on work at the 

 present time in the southern part of that 

 country. The first part of the collection 

 of Dr. Laufer has arrived at the Museum, 

 and vnll soon be exliibited. The studies of 

 an expert collector and investigator in that 

 country cannot fail to give important scien- 

 tific as well as practical results. Dr. 

 Laufer 's collections from China will be 

 supplemented by collections made by Dr. 

 C. C. Vinton in Korea. 



Work has also been carried on in North 

 America. In the beginning of the year 

 Dr. A. L. Kroeber collected among the 

 western Algonquin tribes. This work was 

 in continuation of his work among the 



Arapaho, and has yielded much valuable 

 material. Dr. Kroeber 's investigations 

 were directed principally to the study of 

 the conventionalism of the western Algon- 

 quin tribes, and to their religious cere- 

 monies. In both these lines he collected in- 

 formation of great scientific interest. This 

 investigation was provided for by the liber- 

 ality of Mrs. Morris K. Jesup. 



In 1901 Dr. Roland B. Dixon returned 

 from his investigations in northern Cali- 

 fornia, which were supported by the late 

 Mr. C. P. Huntington. Later in the year 

 Dr. Dixon was engaged in the preparation 

 of the scientific results of his inquiry, the 

 publication of which has been provided for 

 by Mr. Archer M. Huntington. 



During the summer two investigators 

 were sent out to carry on work among 

 Indian tribes. Mr. William Jones spent 

 four months among the Sac and Fox, and 

 brought back with him much linguistic 

 and ethnological information. Mr. H. H. 

 St. Clair, 2d, studied the northwestern 

 Shoshone. His investigations were partly 

 of a linguistic character, partly ethnolog- 

 ical. He directed his attention to the study 

 of the conventionalism of this tribe. 



The results of the studies of North 

 American Indians, carried on by the 

 ]\Iuseum, are in progress of publication. 

 The first volume of these researches is de- 

 voted to the Eskimo of Hudson Bay and 

 Baffin Bay, and is in press. The first part 

 of the descriptions of Dr. Dixon is also 

 nearly completed. It is expected that in 

 the coming year the results of Dr. Dixon's 

 and Dr. Kroeber 's woi-k may be published. 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS. 

 Der Gesang der Vogel, seine anatomischen 



und iiologischen Grundlagen. Von Dr. 



Valentin Hacker. Jena, Gustav Fischer. 



1900. 6r. 8yo. Pp. viii + 102. Mit 13 



Abbild. im Text. 



In the first chapter of this interesting 

 brochure Dr. Hacker describes in detail the 



