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which is quite in line with what would be expected on linguistic and 

 historic grounds. Dr. Michelson returned to Washington in October 

 and prepared manuscript on a number of miscellaneous topics apper- 

 taining to the Fox Indians, to serve as an introduction to the pro- 

 posed memoir on the White Buffalo Dance, which, with the excep- 

 tion of typewriting the Indian texts and the addition of a vocabu- 

 lary, is now ready to submit for publication. During the winter 

 Edward Davenport, a Fox pupil of the United States Indian School 

 at Carlisle, spent a week in Washington, assisting in a number of 

 points regarding the memoir. 



In the spring Dr. Michelson made a preliminary translation of a 

 Fox text of the " owl sacred pack." In June he went to Carlisle 

 and worked out the dubious points in the translation with this 

 informant, who dictated the Indian text twice from that in the 

 current syllabary, so that the entire text is phonetically restored. 

 The punctuation (with a few exceptions, added later at Tama) of 

 the Indian text and English translation was harmonized. 



Dr. Michelson edited Part I of Jones's Ojibwa Texts, containing 

 about 50 pages, which were published by the American Ethnological 

 Society, and collected the author's proofs of Part II, numbering 750, 

 for a sketch of an Ojibwa grammar which will be offered for publi- 

 cation by the bureau. 



Dr. Michelson has now in press an article in the Journal of 

 Linguistics showing that the Pequot-Mohegan belong to the Natick 

 group of the central division of the Algonquian language. 



The beginning of the fiscal year found Mr. J. P. Harrington, 

 ethnologist, in the field engaged in linguistic studies among the 

 Mission Indians of Ventura County, Cal. At the close of this work, 

 near the end of September, Mr. Harrington returned to Washington 

 and spent the following months in the elaboration of recently col- 

 lected material and Ms Tanoan and Kiowa notes. 



Mr. Harrington has discovered a genetic relationship between the 

 Uto-Aztecan, Tanoan, and Kiowa languages. The last two are so 

 closely related that if the Kiowa had been spoken in New Mexico 

 it would have been classed without hesitation by early writers as a 

 Tanoan language. The Uto-Aztecan is more remotely but not less 

 definitely related to the Kiowa genetically. The Kiowa sketch, 

 amounting to 850 typewritten pages, now includes a complete 

 analysis of all the important features of the language. 



On June 9, 1918, Mr. Harrington proceeded to Anadarka, Okla., 

 where he remained until June 26 revising for publication his entire 

 sketch of the Kiowa language, after which he proceeded to Taos, 

 K Mex. 



From July to August 15, 1917, Dr. Leo J. Frachtenberg was en- 

 gaged in confidential war work for the Department of Justice 



