PREFACE 



A number of years ago the writer undertook the compilation of a 

 bibliography of Xortli American languages. In the course of his work 

 he visited the principal public and private libraries of the United 

 States, Canada, and northern Mexico, carried on an extensive corre- 

 spondence with librarians, missionaries, and others interested in the 

 subject, and examined such printed authorities as were at hand. The 

 results ot tliese researches were embodied in a single volume, of which 

 a limited number of copies were printed and distributed — an author's 

 catalogue, including all the material then in hand. Since its issue he 

 has had an opportunity to visit the national libraries of England and 

 France, as well as a number of private ones in both these countries, 

 and to revisit a considerable number in this country and Canada. A 

 sutticient amount of new material has thus been collected to lead to the 

 belief that a series of catalogues may well be prepared, each referring 

 to one of the more prominent groups of our native languages. Of this 

 series three have been published, relating respectively to the Eski- 

 mauan, the Siouan, and the Iroquoian families. The ])resent is the 

 fourth, and the lifth, now in preparation, will relate to the Algonquian. 

 The family names employed in these catalogues are taken from the 

 linguistic map in course of construction by the Bureau of Ethnology. 

 Their adoption for that work is based ui)on the law of priority. 



In the compilation of this catalogue the aim has been to include 

 everything, printed or in manuscript, relating to the subject — books, 

 pamphlets, articles in magazines, tracts, serials, etc., and such reviews 

 and announcements of publications as seemed worthy of notice. 



The dictionary plan has been followed to its extreme limit, the sub- 

 ject and tribal indexes, references to libraries, etc., being included 

 in one al[)habetic series. The primary arrangement is alphabetic by 

 authors, translators of works into the native languages being treated 

 as authors. Under each author the arrangement is, first, by printed 

 works, and, second, by iuanuscri[)ts, each group being given chronolog- 

 ically; and in the case of printed books each work is followed through 

 its various editions before the next in chronologic order is taken up. 



Anonymously printed works are entered under the name of the au- 

 thor, when known, and under the first word of the title, not an article 

 or preposition, when not known. A cross reference is given from the 



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