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to be in fact members of the Chehalis tribe, thus proving conclusively 

 that the Willapa are entirely extinct. 



Dr. Frachtenberg returned to New York late in October and was 

 engaged until the beginning of December in the preparation of the 

 Siuslaw grammatical sketch for the Handbook of American Indian 

 Languages, additional work on which became necessary because of 

 the fact that during his stay in the field he had received further in- 

 formation concerning this extinct stock. In December Dr. Frachten- 

 berg took up his duties in Washington, becoming first engaged in 

 supplying references from the Siuslaw texts in the grammatical 

 sketch of that language. At the close of the year this sketch Avas in 

 type. Dr. Frachtenberg also prepared for publication a Siuslaw- 

 English and English-Siuslaw vocabulary, containing 90 typewritten 

 })ages. He furthermore prepared an English-Coos glossary, which 

 nuiy be utilized in the near future, as it has been found desirable to 

 add such a glossary to each volume of native texts. 



On completion of this work Dr. Frachtenberg commenced the 

 preparation of the Alsea texts collected by Dr. Livingston Far rand 

 in 1900 and by himself in 1910. These texts, consisting of 31 myths, 

 tales, and narratives, and comprising 195 typewritten pages^ will be 

 submitted in the near future with a view to publication as a bulletin 

 of the bureau. 



At the close of the fiscal year Dr. Frachtenberg was preparing for 

 another field season in Oregon, with the view of finishing his studies 

 of the Kalapooian stock and of conducting similar researches among 

 the Quileute. 



Mr. W. H. Holmes, of the National Museum, continued his work 

 on the preparation of the Handbook of American Antiquities for 

 the l)ureau, reaching the practical completion of part 1 and making 

 much headway in the preparation of part 2; progress in this work, 

 however, was necessarily delayed oAving to the pressure of many 

 duties connected with a head curatorship in the National Museum. 



During August, 1913, Mr. Holmes made a visit to Luray, Va., for 

 the further study of an ancient village site near that place and the 

 examination of certain implement-making sites in the vicinity. In 

 June he visited Missouri for the purpose of studying certain collec- 

 tions owned in St. Louis and for the reexamination of an ancient 

 iron and paint mine at Leslie. It was found, however, that recent 

 mining operations had been carried so far that traces of the aborigi- 

 nal work at the mine were practically obliterated, and besides the 

 mine was found to be filled with Avater, making effective examina- 

 tion impossible. From St. Louis he proceeded to Chicago, where 

 studies Avere made of certain collections with a view of obtaining 

 data necessary to the completeness of the Handbook of American 

 Antiquities. 



