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BIBLIOGIiAPlIY OF THE 



Gallatin (A.) — Continued. 

 ILilo's Indians of Nortb-Wcst Amer- 

 ica, and vocabulaiies of North America ; 

 with an introduction. By Albert Gal- 

 latin. 



In American Ethuolo.i;ical Soc. Trans, vol. 2, 

 pp. xxiii-clsxxviii, 1-130, New York, 1848,8°. 



Conii)arative vociiljular5' of the Chocta and 

 Muskbogeo (97 words;, p. cxii.— Yocabiilary of 

 tlio Choctaw and Muskliog (about 180 words), 

 pp. 82-88. 



A comparative vocabulary of tbe 



Uchce, Natches, Mnskobgue, &. Hitcbit- 

 tee languages. 



Manuscript in the library of the American 

 Philosophical Society, Philadilphia, Pa. 



It is a copy made by Mr. Duponceau, and 

 forma No. LXIII of a collection made by him 

 and recorded in a folio account-book, of which 

 it occupies pp. 180-186. 



It is arranged in 5 columns, the Euolisli oc- 

 cupying the first, and cont;iin3 about 225 words. 



On p. 185 is "Additional Musklioguo [words 

 (about 20)], by Kidge." Then follow 2 col- 

 umns Uchoe and Natches words and phrases. 



Albert Gallatin was born in Geneva, Switz- 

 erland, January 29, 1761, and died in Astoria, 

 L. I. August 12, 1849. He was descended from 

 an ancient patrician family of Geneva, whoso 

 name had long been honorably connected with 

 the history of Switzerland, llis father, Jean 

 Gallatin, was engaged in trade, and died when 

 the boy was two years old, while his mother, 

 Sophie Albertiue Eolaz du Kosey, survived 

 her husband seven years. Young Albert, who 

 liad been baptized by the name of Abraham 

 Alfonso Albert, was confided to the care of 

 Mademoiselle Pictet, a relative of his father, 

 and from her ho received his early education. 

 In 1773 he was sent to a boarding-school, and a 

 year later entered the University of Geneva, 

 where ho was graduated in 1779, standing first in 

 mathematics, natural philosophy, and Latin 

 translation. The liberal spirit of the times was 

 not without its influence on the young man. 

 ilis grandmother, Madame Susanne Gallatin- 

 Vaudenet, was a woman of strong charactei', 

 with many friends, among whom were Fred- 

 erick, landgrave of Hesse Cassel, and Voltaire. 

 Through her influence a commission of lieuten- 

 ant-colonel in the Hessian troops, then serving 

 in America, was offered to Gallatin ; but ho de- 

 clined it, saying that ho would "never servo a 

 tyrant." In opposition to the wishes of his 

 family he secretly left Geneva, in April, 1780, 

 with his college friend, Henri Serre, for Amer- 

 ica, where they might " drink in a love for in- 

 dependence in the freest country of the Uni- 

 verse." Ho sailed from I'Orient late in May, 

 1780, and reached Boston on July 14. * * * 



Ho entered Congress on December 7, 1795, as 

 a follower of James Madison, who was then the 



Gallatin (A.) — Continued. 



loader of the llcpublicau opposition, and con- 

 tinued a member of that bod \ until bis appoint- 

 ment as Socretar3' of the Treasury in 1801. * * " 

 Vv'hcn Thomas Jefferson became President, 

 Gallatin was made secretary of the treasury, 

 and held the office continuously until 1813. * * * 

 His services were rewarded with the appoint- 

 ment of minister to France in February, 1815, 

 but he spent some time in travel both in Europe 

 and in the United States, finally CEtering on the 

 duties of his office in January, 1816. Mean- 

 while he took part in the commercial conven- 

 tion held in London during tlie summer of 1815. 

 During his career in Paris he aided John 

 Quincy Adams in ])reparing a commercial 

 treaty with Great Britian, and also was associ- 

 ated with William Eustis in negotiating a 

 treaty with the Netherlands in 1817. Ho left 

 France in 1823 and returned to the United 

 States, where he was occupied for some time in 

 attention to his private att'airs, refusing a seat 

 in the cabinet as secretary of the navy and de- 

 clining to be a candidate for the vice-presi- 

 dency, to whicli he was nominated by the 

 Democratic party. la 1826, at the solicitation 

 of President Adams, ho accepted the appoint- 

 ment of envoy extraordinary to Great Britain, 

 and negotiated commercial treaties by means 

 of which full indemnification was obtained from 

 England for injuries that had been sustained by 

 citizens of the United States iu consequence of 

 violations of the treaty of Ghent. On his return 

 to the United States ho setth^d in New York 

 City, where, from 1831 till 1839, ho was president 

 of the Nationnl Dank of New York. * * * 

 In 1842 he was associated in the establish- 

 ment of the American Ethnological Society, 

 becoming its first president, and in 1843 he was 

 elected to hold a similar office in the New York 

 Historical Society, an honor which was an- 

 nually conferred on him until his death. His 

 scientific publications include "Synopsis of 

 tho Indian Tribes within the United States 

 East of the Kocky Mountains, and in tho British 

 and Russian Possessions in North America " 

 (Cambridge, 1836), and "Notes on tho Semi- 

 Civilized Nations of Mexico, Yucatan, and 

 Central America, with Conjectures on the Ori- 

 gin of Semi-Civilization in America " (New 

 York, 18i5). —Appleton's Gyclop. of Am. Biog. 



Gatschet : This word following a title or within pa- 

 rentheses after a note indicates that a copy of tho 

 work referred to has been seen by the compiler 

 in the library of Mr. Albert S. Gatschet, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Gatschet (Albert Samuel). Adjectives 

 of color iu Indian lauguagey. By Albert 

 S. Gatschet. 



In American Natiualist, vol. 13, ])p. 475-485, 

 I'liiladelphia, 1879, 8°. 



Creek adjectives of color, pp. 482-483. 



