THE SCIENTIFIC CORPS 



Horatio Hale (1817-1896) was the philologist and 

 ethnographer of the corps. He was but twenty-one 

 years old when the corps was made up, and graduated at 

 Harvard College in 1837, a year before his embarkation. 

 While an undergraduate he had made his first contribu- 

 tion to science by publishing a small pamphlet on an 

 Algonquin dialect. He came of a New Hampshire 

 family, and his mother, Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, won distinc- 

 tion as the writer of many widely circulated volumes, 

 most of them published during her residence in Philadel- 

 phia. For the last forty years and more of his life Mr. 

 Hale resided in Clinton, Ontario, Canada, where he was 

 engaged in the practice of law. As late as 1893 he pub- 

 lished two scientific papers. Of his exploration report, 

 Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, a well-known authority, says 

 that it 



" is filled with extremely valuable material relating to the 

 ethnology and dialects of the various tribes encountered 

 by the expedition, especially in Patagonia, Polynesia, 

 Australia, South Africa, and the northwest coast of 

 North America. The grammar and comparative vocabu- 

 lary of the Polynesian dialects are especially creditable, 

 and Mr. Hale's studies of the migrations of the Polyne- 

 sians and the peopling of the islands of the Pacific Ocean 

 may be justly said to have laid the foundation for all 

 subsequent researches in that field. In their main out- 

 lines they have stood the test of later inquiry, and are 

 accepted to-day by the soundest anthropologists." 



Titian Ramsey Peale of Philadelphia was one of three 

 brothers, Titian, Rembrandt, and Raphael, sons of 

 Charles W. Peale, who is well known by his portraits of 

 Washington. The son was thirty-eight years old when 

 the squadron sailed, and he had already won reputation 

 from the plates he had drawn in illustration of Bonaparte's 

 American Ornithology. The plates which are found in 

 Cassin's report on the mammalogy and ornithology of 

 the expedition were his work. 



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