About the Author

DR. GORDON M. DAY has been Research Asociate in Anthropology at Dartmouth since August 1, 1957. Since that time, under a three-year grant from the Spaulding-Potter Trusts, he has been engaged in field research, described by him as a "salvage operation," to record and assemble data on the nearly extinct language and associated culture of the St. Francis Indians of Canada. Very little work has been done on these Indians, who represent the original inhabitants of northern New England. The three-year study will result in an invaluable collection of tape recordings and other materials to be deposited in Dartmouth's Baker Library.

Dr. Day, who lives in Contoocook, N. H., took his A.B. and A.M. degrees at Syracuse University in forestry, and received his Ph.D. in microbiology at Rutgers in 1949. His interest in the Indian aspects of the ecology of northern New England led to the St. Francis research in which he has been engaged since 1950.