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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Briiiton (D. G.) — Continued. 



Title verso copyriglit 1 1. preface pp. iii-iv, 

 couteuts pp. v-xii, text pp. 17-167, index of 

 authors and authorities pp. 469-474, index of 

 subject.^ pp. 475-489, 8°. A collected reprint of 

 some of Dr. IJrintou's more inipovtaut essays. 



The earliest form of human speech as re- 

 vealed by American tongues (read before the 

 American I'hilo.sophical S(i<'icty in 1885 and 

 published iii their proceedings under the title 

 of "The language of pala'olithic man"), pp. 

 390-409. 



Comments on the Tinne language, pp. 394- 

 395.— Tiun6 words, p. 405. 



Copies seen : Bureau of Ethnology, Eames, 

 Pilling. 



The American Race : | A Linouistic 



Classificatiou and Ethnogia])lii(^ | De- 

 scription of the Native Tribes of | 

 North and Soutli America. | By | Daniel 

 G. Briutou, A. M., M. D., | Profe.s.sor 

 [«fcc. ten lines.] | 



New York: | N. D. C. Hodgea, Pub- 

 lisher, I 47 Lafayette Place. | 1891. 



Title verso copyright notice 1 1. dedication 

 verso blank 1 1. preface pp. ix-xii, contents pp. 

 xiii-xvi, text pp. 17-332, linguistic apjiendix 

 pp. 333-364, additions and correctiou.s j)j). 365- 

 368, index of authors pp. 369-373, index of sub- 

 jects pp. 374-392, 8°. 



A brief discussion of the Athabascans 

 (Tinn6), with a list of divisions of the Atha- 

 bascan linguistic stock, pp. 68-74. 



Copies seen : Eames, Pilling. 



Daniel Garrison Brinton, ethnologist, born in 

 Chester County, Pa., May 13, 1837. He was 

 graduated at Yale in 1858 and at the Jeftorson 

 Medical College in 1801, .after which he spent a 

 year in Europe in study and in travel. On his 

 return he entered the armj'^, in August, 1862, as 

 acting assistant surgeon. In February of the 

 following year he was commissioned surgeon 

 and served as surgeon-in-chief of the .second 

 division, eleventh corps. He was present at the 

 battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and 

 other engagements, and was appointed medical 

 director of his corps in October, 18G3. In con- 

 sequence of a sunstroke received soon after the 

 battle of Gettysburg he was disqualitied for 

 active service, and in the autumn of that year he 

 became superintendent of hospitals at Qulncy 

 and Springfield, 111., until August, 1865, when, 

 the civil war having closed, he was brevetted 

 lieutenant-colonel and discliarged. He then 

 settled in Pliila<lelphia, wliere be became editor 

 of "The Medical .and Surgical Keporter," and 

 also of the quartei'ly "Comjiendium of Medical 

 Science." Dr. Brinton has likewise been a 

 constant contributor to other medical .journals, 

 chiefly on questions of public medicine and 

 hygiene, and has edited several volumes on 

 therapeutics and diagnosis, especially the poi>- 

 ular series known as " Napheys's M(«lern Ther- 

 apeutics," wliich has passed through many 

 editions. In the medical controversies of the 



Brinton (D. G.) — Continued, 



day, he has always taken the position that med- 

 ical science slionld Ije based on the results of 

 clinical observat ion rather than on i)hysiidogical 

 experiments. He has become prominent as a 

 student and a writer on American ethnology, 

 his work in this direction beginning while he 

 was a student in college. The winter of 1856-'57, 

 spent in Florida, sui)))liod lum with material 

 for liis fiist l)uliliMlic(l book on the subject. In 

 1884 he was appointed professor of ethnology 

 and archa'ology in the Acatlemy of Natur.al 

 Sciences, Pliiladelphia. For some years he has 

 been i>resident of the Numismatic and Anti- 

 quarian Society of Philadelphia, and in 1886 he 

 was elected vice-president of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, to 

 preside over the section on anthrojiology. Dur- 

 ing the same year he was awarded the medal 

 of the Soci6t6 Am6ricaine de France for his 

 "numerous and leariied works on American 

 ethnology." being the first native of the United 

 States that has been .so honored. In 1885 the 

 American publishers of the " Iconographic Eu- 

 cyclopa'dia" requested him to edit the first vol- 

 ume, to contribute to it the articles on "Anthro- 

 polog3'" and "Ethnology," and to revise that 

 on " Ethnography," by Professor Gerland, of 

 Strasburg. He also contributed to the second 

 volume of the same work an es.say on the "Pre- 

 historic Arch.TJology of both Hemispheres." 

 Dr. Brinton has established a library and pub- 

 lishing house of aboriginal American litera- 

 ture, for the purpo.so of jdacing within the 

 reach of scholars authentic materials for the 

 study of the languages and culture of the native 

 races of America. Each work is the production 

 of native minds .and is printed in the original. 

 The series, most of which were edited by Dr. 

 Brinton himself, include " The M.aya Chron- 

 icles" (Philadelphia. 1882); "The Iroquois 

 Book of Kites" (1883); "The Giiegiience: A 

 Comedy Ballet in the Nahuatl Spanish Dialect 

 of Nicaragua ' (1883) ; "A Migration Legend of 

 the Creek Indians" (1884); "The Len.ape .and 

 Their Legends" (1885); "The Annals of the 

 Cakchiquels" (1885). ["Ancient Nahuatl 

 Poetry" (1887); Rig Veda Americanus (1890)]. 

 Besides publtsbing numerous p.apers, he h.as 

 contributed valuable reports on his examina- 

 tions of mounds, shell-heaps, rock inscriptions, 

 and other antiquities. He is the author of " The 

 Floridian Peninsula: Its Literary History, In- 

 dian Tribes, and Antiquities " (Philadelphia, 

 1859) ; ' ' The Myths of the New World : A Treat- 

 ise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Ked 

 Race of America" (New York, 1868); "The 

 Religious Sentiment: A Contribution to the 

 Science and Philosophy of Religion " (1876) ; 

 "American Hero Myths : A Study in the Niitive 

 Religionsof the ^Western Continent" (Philadel- 

 phia, 1882) ; "Aboriginal American Authors and 

 their Productions, Especiidly those in the Native 

 Languages" (1883); and "A Giammar of the 

 Cakchiquel Language of Guatemala" (1884).— 

 Appleton's Cyclop, of Am. Bioy. 



