PIONEERS OF SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 



cultivation ; their statistics of population ; and their geo- 

 graphical position, past and present. 



His Indian wife having died in 1852, Mr. Schoolcraft mar- 

 ried, in 1857, Miss Mary Howard, of Beaufort, S. C. Being 

 highly educated she was able to render him great assistance in 

 the preparation of his last work when he was helpless from pa- 

 ralysis. 



Mr. Schoolcraft became interested in religion at an early 

 period in his career, and his journals show him ever more earn- 

 estly co-operating in local religious movements; furthering the 

 progress of missionary effort among the Indians, by whatever 

 denomination ; labouring for the promotion of temperance 

 among them; and taking the lead in whatever might contribute 

 to their well-being or to the repression of wrong against them. 

 His literary activity was prolific, and appears to have been 

 nearly evenly divided between poetry, Indian lore and ethnol- 

 ogy, and the objects of his explorations and scientific investiga- 

 tion. Besides books of poems and the narratives already 

 named, he published Algic Researches, a collection of Indian 

 allegories and legends (1839) ; Oneota, or the Characteristics of 

 the Red Race in America (i844-'45), republished in 1848 as 

 The Indian and his Wigwam; Report on Aboriginal Names and 

 the Geographical Terminology of New York (1845); Plan for 

 investigating American Ethnology (1846); The Red Race of 

 America (1847) 5 A- Bibliography of the Indian Tongues of the 

 United States (1849) ; and American Indians, their History. 

 Condition, and Prospects (1850). He received the degree of 

 LL. D. from the University of Geneva in 1846; and was a 

 member of many learned societies. 



