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Schoolcraft (H. R.) — Contiunod. 



Philiulelphia: | J. B. Lippiucott A 

 Co. I 1860. 



Engraved title : Information | respecting tlio 

 I History, Condition and Prospects | of tlio | 

 Indian Trilics of the United States: | Collected 

 and prepared under the | Bureau of Indian 

 Alfairs | By Henry R. Schoolcraft L. L. D. | 

 Mem : Royal Geo. Society, London. Royal An- 

 tiquarian Society. Copenhagen. Ethnological 

 Society, Paris, &.c. &c. | Illustrated by 1 Cap.' 

 S. Eastman, U. S. A. and other eminent artists. 1 

 [Vignette.] | Published hy authority of Con- 

 gress. I 



Pliiladolphia: | J. B. Lippincott &. Co. 



I) vols, maps and plates. 4°. 



This edition agrees in the text page for i)age 

 with the original titled above, and contains in 

 addition an index to each volume. 



Copieis seen : Congress. 



Partially reprinted, with title as follows: 



[ ] The I Imliaii tribes | of the i United 



States: | their | history, antiquities, 

 cnstoms, religion, arts, language, | tra- 

 ditions, oral legends, and myths. | Ed- 

 ited by I Francis S. Drake. | Illnstrated 

 with one hundred fine engravings on 

 steel. ] In two volumes. | Vol. I[-I1J. ] 

 Philadelphia: | .1. B. Lippincott & 

 CO. I London: 16 Southampton street, 

 Coveut Garden. | 1884. 



2 vols. : portrait 1 1. title verso copyright 1 1. 

 preface pp. 3-5, contents pp. 7-8. list of plates 

 pp. 9 10, introduction i)p. 11-24, text pp. 25-458 ; 

 frontisi)iece 1 1. title verso copyright 1 I. con- 

 tents pp. 3-6, list of plates p. 7, text pp. 9-445, 

 index pj). 447-455, plates, 4°. 



" In the following pages the attem]it has been 

 made to place before the i)ublic in a convenient 

 and accessible form the results of the life-long 

 labors in tlie tield of aboriginal researcli of the 

 late Henry R. Schoolcraft." 



Chapter II, Language, literature, and pic- 

 tography, vol. 1, pp. 47-63, contains general 

 remarks on the Indian languages. 



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Priced by Clarke &. co. 1886, no. 6376, .$25. 



Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, ethnologist, born in 

 IWatervlietj Albany county. N. T., March 28, 

 1793; died in Washington, D. C, December 10, 

 1864. Was educated at Middlebury College, 

 Vermont, and at Union, where he pursued tlie 

 studies of chemistry and mineralogy. In 

 1817 -'18 he traveled in Missouri and Arkansas, 

 and returned with a large collection of geolog- 

 ical and mineralogical specimens. In 1820 he 

 was appointed geologist to Gen. Lewis Cass's 

 exploring expedition to Lake Superior and the 

 headwaters of Mississippi River. He was secre- 

 tary of a commission to treat with the Indians 

 atChicago, and, after a,journ(\y through Illinois 

 and along Wabasli aud Miami riverti, was in 

 1822 appointed Indian agent for the tribes of 



Schoolcraft (H. R.) — Continued. 



the lake region, establishing himself at Sault 

 Sainte Marie, and afterward at Mackinaw, 

 where, in 1823, he married Jane Johnston, 

 granddaughter of Waboojeeg, a noted O.jibway 

 chief, who had received her education iu 

 Europe. In 1828 ho founded tlie Michigan his- 

 torical society, and in 1831 the Algic society. 

 From 1828 till 1832 he was a member of the ter- 

 ritorial legislature of Michigan. In 1832 he led a 

 government expedition, winch followed the Mis- 

 sissippi River up to its source in Itasca Lake. 

 In 1836 he negotiated a treaty witli the Indians 

 on the upper lakes for the cession to the United 

 States of 16,000.000 acres of tlieir lands. He 

 was then appointed acting superinten<lent of 

 Indian afl'airs, and in 1839 chief disbursing agent 

 for the northern department. On bis return 

 from Europe in 1842 lie made a tour through 

 western Virginia, Ohio, and Canada. He was 

 appointed by the Kew York h^gishiturc in 1845 

 a commissioner to take the census of the Indians 

 in the State, and collect information concerning 

 the Six Nations. After the performance of 

 this task, Congress authorized him, on March 3, 

 1847, to obtain tlirough the Indian bureau 

 reports relating to all tlie Indian tribes of the 

 country, .and to collate an<l edit the information. 

 In this work he spent the remaining years of 

 his life. Thrr^igh his influence many laws 

 were enacted for the iirotection and benefit of 

 the Indians. Numerous scientific societies in 

 the United States and Euroi)e eh'cfed him to 

 membershii), aud the University of Geneva 

 gave him tlie degree of LL.D. iu 1846. He was 

 the author of numerous poems, lectures, and 

 reports on Indian subjects, besides thirty-one 

 larger works. Two of his lectures before fbo 

 Algic society at Detroit on the '-Grammatical 

 Construction of the Indian Languages" were 

 tran.slated into French by Peter S. Diiponceaii, 

 and gained for their author a gold medal from 

 the French institute. . . . 



To the flvevolumes of Indian researches com- 

 piled under tlie direction of the war department 

 he added a sixth, containing the post-Columbian 

 liistory of the Indians and of tbeir relations 

 with Europeans (Philadelphia, 18.57). He had 

 collected material for two additional volumes, 

 but the government suddenly suspended the 

 publication of the -work.— Ap2>lctou's Cycloii. of 

 Am. Bioij. 



Schott (W.) Ueber ethnographische 

 Ergebnisse der Sagoskinschen Reise, 

 von W. Schott. 



InErman (A.), Ai-chiv f iir wlssenschaftliche 

 Kunde von Russland, vol. 7, pp. 480-512, Herliii, 

 1849. 8°. 



Vocabulary of the Inkilik and Inkalif-Iiigel- 

 niut (from Zagoskin), pp. 481-487. 



Scouler (Dr. John). Ob.servations on 

 the indigenous tribes of the N. W. 

 coast of America. By ,Fohn Scouler, 

 M. D., F. L. S., &u. 



