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mony of the Mandans ; catalogues of his gallery ; a pamphlet 

 on breathing, entitled Shut your Mouth, giving the results of 

 observations made during his life among the Indians, 1865 ; a 

 pamphlet concerning a Steam Raft suggested as a Means of 

 Security to Human Life on the Ocean, 1850; Last Rambles 

 amongst the Indians of the Rocky Mountains and the Andes, 

 1868 ; The Lifted and Subsided Rocks of America, with their 

 Influence on the Oceanic, Atmospheric, and Land Currents, 

 and the Distribution of Races, 1870 ; a Letter to William Black- 

 man, concerning his life among the aboriginal races of Amer- 

 ica ; and newspaper, review, and magazine notes and articles. 



He put forward in 1832 a suggestion for forming a large 

 reservation of public lands to be a nation's park, containing 

 man and beast in all the wildness and freshness of their nat- 

 ural beauty, saying that he would want no better monument 

 than the reputation of having been the founder of such an in- 

 stitution. More than this: He was the man who picked out 

 the Yellowstone region for a park, and it is time that the credit 

 of the Yellowstone Park should be given to George Catlin and 

 some part of it named after him. In 1845 he published a plan 

 for disengaging and floating quarterdecks on steamers and 

 other vessels for the purpose of saving human lives at sea, and 

 proceeded to take out a patent for it, but found afterward that 

 he had been anticipated. In 1842 he was invited to lecture at 

 the Royal Institution in London, and took advantage of the 

 occasion to introduce a subject on which he had long medi- 

 tated that of forming a museum to contain and perpetuate the 

 looks and manners and history of all the declining and vanish- 

 ing races of mankind. 



Attention may properly be called to the extraordinary 

 energy and industry of this man, who produced over twelve 

 hundred oil paintings, besides endless numbers of etchings, pen- 

 and-ink drawings, manugraphs of his own works resembling 

 the perfection of the ancient manuscripts, miniatures, etc., and 

 at the same time travelled and wrote and left few subjects un- 

 examined. His conversational abilities were sought for at the 

 best houses in London. At seventy-six he retained his natural 

 sight, his own teeth, his uprightness of carriage, and could 

 walk for miles without fatigue. 



