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— Of Dr. Franz Boas's recent publications on the ethnography 

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 ing this language vvere visited by Boas in the summer of 1890 on 

 Puget Sound, and then only three persons were surviving. Be- 

 fore Boas nolhing tliorough had ever been made public upon thi;) 

 curious and very consonantic language, which forms, together 

 with a dialect on the Pacific Coast, unexplored as yet, a linguistic 

 family by itself. 2. " Third Report on the Indians of British Co 

 lumbia," contained on pp. 2-43 of Seventh Report on the North- 

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sninatological. 3. 'Vocabularies of the Tlingit, Haida, and 

 Tshiinshian Linguaees," American Philosophical Society of Phila- 

 delphia, Oct. 2. 1891 ; in its Proceedings, pp. 173-208. These copi- 

 ous word collections are so arranged that the English signification 

 stands first. At the end of the article there are texts and a song 

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