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orary philologist of the bureau, on certain mooted points pertaining 

 to the Fox language. While in New York a few tracings were made 

 with the Rousselot apparatus. 



In May Dr. Michelson again visited Carlisle for the purpose of 

 making a translation of the story of a sacred bundle of the Fox 

 Indians, which he has recently procured. 



Toward the end of the fiscal year Dr. Michelson devoted some time 

 to the problem whether the Yurok and Wiyot languages of California 

 were Algonquian, as had been recently claimed, and reached the con- 

 clusion that the existing evidence does not justify such a classification. 



Work on the Handbook of American Indian Languages was con- 

 tinued under the personal direction and editorship of Dr. Franz 

 Boas, honorary philologist. Part 2, which is in preparation, is to 

 contain grammatical sketches of the Takelma, Coos, Siuslaw, and 

 Alsea languages of Oregon; the Kutenai, of Montana; and the 

 Chukchee. The Takelma sketch was published in advance in sepa- 

 rate form in 1912. During the present year the printing of the 

 sketch of the Coos, by Leo J. Frachtenberg, wdiich forms pages 

 297-429 of part 2, was finished. The manuscript of the Siuslaw, 

 also by Dr. Frachtenberg, was completed and revised, and, except for 

 a small part, is in galley form. The Chukchee sketch likewise has 

 been set up in galleys and revised, and new material on the dialects of 

 the language, having become available, has been added. The print- 

 ing of the sketch proceeded necessarily slowly, since the notes had to 

 be read by the author, Mr. Waldemar Bogoras, who lives in Russia. A 

 full treatment of this grammar is particularly desirable, since it 

 serves to define the relationships of the American languages toward 

 the west. Dr. Frachtenberg, a fuller report of Avhose work will 

 follow, has made progress with his studies of the Alsea. The gram- 

 matical material and the texts have been extracted and studied, and 

 the latter, which are to form the basis of the sketch, have been copied 

 for the printer. Dr. A. F. Chamberlain, a valued collaborator, whose 

 untimely death we lament, furnished a sketch of the Kutenai lan- 

 guage. It was necessary to make a detailed study of this sketch. 

 This was done by Dr. Boas partly during the winter in New York 

 with the help of a Kutenai boy and partly during the month of June 

 among the Indians of Montana and British Columbia. The report on 

 this sketch was completed. A certain amount of preparatory Avork 

 for the sketch of the Salish language was also done, more particu- 

 larly a map showing the distribution of the Salish dialect, based on 

 researches by James Teit, was completed. The expense of the field 

 work for this map, which has occupied four years, was met by Mr. 

 Homer E. Sargent, of Chicago, to whose lively interest in the Hand- 

 book and related subjects we are deeply indebted. The vocabularies 

 on which the map is based are in an advanced stage of preparation. 



