Bibliography ^ 



Professor Biittikofer was not able to penetrate far into the interior of 

 Liberia ; with the exception of a journey of a hundred miles up the St. 

 Paul's River, he travelled no more than thirty miles from the coast. But 

 he has given a correct and impartial sketch of Liberian history, and his 

 services to biology in that country cannot be too highly praised, since 

 before his explorations and those of the other Swiss collectors who acted 

 with him practically nothing was known of the zoology of this country. 

 To Dr. Biittikofer, Stampfli, and their companions (who were nearly all 

 sent out to this country by Dr. Jentink of Leyden Museum, Holland) we 

 owe the revelation of the more interesting features of the Liberian fauna. 

 For some reason not explained Dr. Biittikofer made practically no botanical 

 -collections. At the commencement of the first volume of his work he 

 gives a bibliography dealing with Liberia, and many of the works he quotes 

 the present writer does not cite over again, as no one who wishes to study 

 Liberian questions can do so without direct application to Biittikofer's 

 work. 



j4 Grammar of the Vei ( Vai) Language, by the Rev. S. W. Koelle, 

 London, 1854. — This work, I believe, was subsequently republished by 

 Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., and is now on sale. It is a 

 most interesting treatise on the Vai language, and is very necessary to 

 persons exploring Western Liberia, where that language, apart from English, 

 is the chief means of communicating with the natives. 



Polyglotta Africana, by the Rev. S. W. Koelle, London, 1854. — This 

 is Koelle's colossal work, compiled at Sierra Leone from slaves landed 

 there by the British cruisers. These short vocabularies are on the whole 

 wonderfully accurate in transcription. The languages represented range 

 as far afield from Sierra Leone as Lake Chad, the Egyptian Sudan, Nyasa- 

 land, Angola, and the western Sahara. He gives examples of most of the 

 Kru and Mandingo dialects, of the Gora language, the Kisi speech, and 

 two or three dialects of Kpwesi, 



The Revds. J. L. Wilson and J. S. Payne both published works (at 

 Boston, U.S.A., and also locally printed at Cape Palmas in Liberia) on the 

 ■Grebo language in the middle of the nineteenth century. Copies of their 

 works exist in the British Museum Library, and may be looked for under 

 those names. 



Les Peuplades de la Senegambie, by L. J. B. Beranger-Feraud, Paris, 1879. 



The Modern Languages of Africa, by Robert Needham Cust, London, 

 1883, vol. i. — Mr. Cust in his well-known work summarises very ably 

 all that was known about Liberian languages down to the year 1883, and 

 gives useful hints as to where to obtain the works then existing on the 

 subject. 



Christiatiity, Lslam, and the Negro Race, by Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden, 

 London, 1887. — This works deals incidentally with Liberian problems. It 



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