452 J. W. Powell's Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, 
Shasta and Umpqua words, from reliable Indians. On the 
Grande Ronde Agency are found a large number of tribes and 
remnants of tribes which were collected there after the Oregon 
war of 1855-6; and with the exception of the Klikatats they 
are all from Western Oregon. The following is a classification 
of the linguistic stocks now on this reservation: Tinnéh, Silets, 
Wayiletpu, Shasta, T’sinuk, Sahaptin, Selish, Modok and Kal- 
apuya. The Kalapuya once occupied almost the whole extent 
of the beautiful and fertile Willamette valley, and one branch 
of this stock, the Yonkalla, even extended into the Umpqua 
Mr. Gatschet also collected vocabularies and sentences of the 
spilowing lepguazen. Shoshoni, Achomawi, Shasta, Wintun, 
W: éssisi, Waska, Klakamas, Mélele, Nestucca, Yamhill, 
ayuk and Ahantchuyuk. In the collection of all these 
vocabularies, the “Introduction to the Study of Indian Lan- 
Ne: prepared for the Smithsonian Institution by Prof. J. 
W. Powell was us 
Dr. H. C. Yarrow, U.S. A., now on duty at the Army Medi- 
cal Museum in Washington, has been engaged during the past 
year in the collection of material for a monograph on the cus- 
_ toms and rites practised in the disposal of the dead among the 
