1868 ] 389 [Hayden. 



Society of Sciences at Amsterdam, Oct. 12, 1867, acknowl- 

 edging the receipt of No. 76 of the Proceedings of this 

 Society. 



Donations for the Library were announced : From the 

 Royal Academy of Sciences at Amsterdam : Societies — the 

 Imperial, of Naturalists at Moscow ; the Royal Saxon, of 

 Sciences at Leipsig; the Holland, of Sciences, at Harlem ; the 

 Bath and West of England, Agricultural ; the Portland 

 Natural History, and the Wisconsin State Historical ; from 

 the Young Men's Association of Buffalo; the Geological Sur- 

 vey of Iowa; the Mercantile Library Company of Phila- 

 delphia ; the publishers of the American AtheniTeum, New 

 York ; and from Mr. Edward Miller. 



Dr. F. V. Hayden presented a paper in relation to the 

 languages of certain tribes of Indians inhabiting the region 

 of the Upper Missouri. 



BRIEF NOTES ON THE PAWNEE, WINNEBAGO, 

 AND OMAHA LANGUAGES. 



BY F. V. HAYDEN, M.D. 



In presenting these brief vocabularies for publication at 

 this time, I beg permission to state here, that they are only 

 preliminary to an extensive work in preparation, to form a 

 second part of a memoir entitled " The Ethnography and Phi- 

 lology of the Indian Tribes of the Missouri Yalle}^," the first 

 part of which has already been published in the Transactions 

 of this Society. The materials which compose this paper were 

 collected by me, during the past season, while conducting the 

 United States Geological Survey of the State of Nebraska, in 

 the form of rough notes, and it occurred to me that, inasmuch 

 as life is uncertain, and but little value could be derived from 

 these notes by any one but myself in their manuscript form, 

 it would be advisable, if they were of any value to science, 

 to preserve them in the Transactions of some learned society-, 

 in advance of the more elaborate work, which may not be com- 

 pleted for many }■ ears. No pursuit has ever given me greater 

 pleasure than the study of the languages and customs of our 

 native tribes, and it would be my choice to give my undivided 

 attention to those researches, but all mj' labors in that direction 



