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linguistic stocks here, the Koloshan ^[[the Haidan,]] Tsimsian Haeltzukan, Salishan, but the region forms one of these unigue areas in which the arts, the modes of life, even the philosophical ^[[and]] religious conceptions have been guided and moulded by surroundings.
Ensign Niblack [[strikethrough]] was assigned to duty from the 3d October 1888 to the 22d March 1889 to prepare a report on the Coast Indians of Alaska and Northern British Columbia from notes made in connection with the same ^[[survey]] of Alaska. [[/strikethrough]]
[[strikethrough]] He [[/strikethrough]] Was on duty ^[[in the museum]] [[strikethrough]] with you [[/strikethrough]] from Oct. 3d to March 22nd. ^[[He]] Was ordered to Smithsonian to prepare a report on the Coast Indians of Alaska and Northern British Columbia from notes made in connection with the survey of Alaska in 1885, 1886, & 1887, such orders being in pursuance of a plan formed by the Navy Dept. in 1881 to further the progress of