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great age reputed, indeed, to be over a century old who was 

 believed to be the last full-blooded survivor of the once numerous 

 Tutelo tribe. This tribe formerly inhabited Virginia and North 

 Carolina, and migrated thence in the last century to Pennsylvania 

 and New York, where they united with the Iroquois " nations/' 

 and finally removed with them to Canada. Mr. Hale visited this 

 old man, and obtained from him and some intelligent half-castes 

 (of Tutelo-Iroquois origin) an extensive vocabulary of their lan- 

 guage, with many historical facts, which showed them to be 

 beyond question members of the great Dakota (or Siouan) stock 

 of the far West. It also appeared that other tribes near them 

 spoke the same language. The fact that septs of their wide- 

 spread family anciently dwelt east of the Alleghanies, and in all 

 probability occupied this North Atlantic portion of the continent 

 before its invasion by the Iroquois and Algonkin tribes, was an 

 important and unexpected addition to aboriginal history. The 

 particulars of this discovery were given in a paper of consider- 

 able length, entitled The Tutelo Tribe and Language, which ap- 

 peared in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 

 of Philadelphia, and was thence reprinted in pamphlet form. It 

 naturally aroused much interest among American ethnologists. 

 In 1882 Mr. Hale, as a member of a committee of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, which met in that 

 year in Montreal, took part in organizing the first meeting of the 

 Section of Anthropology in that association ; and, somewhat re- 

 markably, two years later in the same city he was one of the 

 committee of the British Association which organized the first 

 meeting of the like section in that world-renowned society. 

 These facts afford evidence both of the recent rise and progress 

 of this branch of science and of the position held by Mr. Hale 

 among its cultivators. At this meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion a proposal of the first president of the new section, the dis- 

 tinguished anthropologist, Dr. E. B. Tylor, resulted in the ap- 

 pointment of a committee " to investigate the physical character, 

 languages, and industrial and social condition of the Northwest- 

 ern tribes of the Dominion of Canada." Of this committee Mr. 

 Hale was a member, having among his colleagues the late eminent 

 President of Toronto University, Sir Daniel Wilson, and Dr. G. 

 M. Dawson, of the Geological Survey of Canada. In compliance 

 with the unanimous request of his colleagues, Mr. Hale under- 

 took the office of director of the investigations and editor of 

 the reports an office which, under the rules of the association, 

 involved his temporary withdrawal from the committee. Of 

 these reports eight have already appeared, and another, designed 

 to be the final report, is now (January, 1895) in course of prepara- 

 tion. The first report, which was on the Tribes of the Blackfoot 



