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approximately 100 baskets, and more than 30 other ethnologic speci- 

 mens. In addition to the Quileute studies mentioned, Dr. Frachten- 

 berg collected 88 pages of Makah (Nootka) linguistic data, 57 pages 

 of Quinault (Salish), and 18 pages of Clallam (Lkungen). While 

 in Portland, Oreg., he obtained through the courtesy of the municipal 

 authorities a fine collection of photographs representing several hun- 

 dred archeological objects owned by the city. 



Dr. Frachtenberg returned to Washington early in Februar}'. Sub- 

 sequently, after conference with Dr. Franz Boas, honorary philolo- 

 gist of the bureau, it was arranged that Dr. Frachtenberg prepare 

 for the Handbook of American Indian Languages comparative 

 sketches of the Kalapuya, Molala, Klamath, and Quileute, and pos- 

 sibly one of the Salish languages. He also engaged in the final 

 preparation of his paper Alsea Texts and Myths, which is now in 

 process of printing as Bulletin 67. He next proceeded to prepare 

 for publication the results of his earlier investigations of the lan- 

 guage, ethnology, and mythology of the Kalapuya Indians, which 

 will consist of two papers: A Grammatical Sketch of the Kala- 

 puya Languages and Kalapuya Myths and Texts. The Kalapuya 

 grammatical material consists of extended field notes gathered in 

 1913 and 1914, and of grammatical notes on the Atfalati collected by 

 Dr. Gatschet in 1877. Dr. Gatschet's material, comprising 421 pages 

 of field notes, is of inestimable value; indeed it is to the efforts of 

 this untiring scholar that we owe the preservation of this most im- 

 portant dialect of the Kalapuya language, since he obtained his ma- 

 terial, which includes also some valuable ethnologic data, from the 

 last full-blood Atfalati. Dr. Frachtenberg's own material comprises 

 several thousand grammatical forms, phrases, and vocables, and 32 

 native texts with interlinear translation — 630 pages in all. The prep- 

 aration of these linguistic data, as well as the work on the Kalapuya 

 myths and texts, is well under way. Six of the texts, comprising 36 

 pages, have been prepared for publication ; five of these are provided 

 with interlinear translation and with voluminous notes in which at- 

 tention is directed to the occurrence of similar myths among other 

 tribes. During his studies of the Kalapuya languages Dr. Frach- 

 tenberg discovered that there is sufficient reason to believe that the 

 Kalapuya, Takelman, and Chinookan languages are genetically re- 

 lated, the determination being based not only on lexical but also on 

 structural and morphological material. This discovery tends to es- 

 tablish a connecting link between some of the languages of California 

 and most of the languages spoken in Oregon. 



During the last two weeks of the fiscal year Dr. Frachtenberg was 

 temporarily detailed for special work in the Bureau of Investigation 

 of the Department of Justice. 



