ANNOUNCEMENT VII 



nati\ u hmguaoe.-. of Noith America at Yale Universitv, though faikire 

 of health soon compelled his resio)iation; and from Yale, Harvard, 

 and Columbia he was the reciijientof degrees in recog-nition of notable 

 reseai-ehes and publications. In addition to his linguistic knowledge 

 he possessed great learning and skill as a bibliographer. During his 

 later years he was a valued correspondent of the Bureau, and his wide 

 knowledge of both aboriginal tongues and l)ibliographic methods, 

 freely conveyed to the officers of the Bureau, proved of great service. 

 He died in Hartford, Connecticut, August 5, 1S07. 



Dr Hale pays a merited tribute also to John Eliot, the pioneer stu- 

 dent of aboriginal languages in the New England region, pointing out 

 that Eliot was not merely a translator of the native tongues but an 

 original investigator of their structure. Naturally the opinions con- 

 cerning the aborigines and their languag-es based on the limited knowl- 

 edge of the middle of th(! seventeenth century were much less definite 

 than those resting on the numerous records extant at the beginning of 

 the nineteenth century; yet it is noteworthy that the early view of 

 Eliot, voiced by Dr Hale, as to the widespread grammatic corres- 

 jMndences among the native tongues, possesses a meaning well worth 

 the interest of the pioneer student and his later interpreters. Truml)ull 

 and Hale. The place and date of John Eliot's J)irth are not recorded, 

 but he was baptized in Widford. Hertfordshire. England. August 5, 

 1604:. He matriculated at Cambridge in 1619, and took a degree in 

 1622: he subsequently took orders, and, accepting a call to Roxbury, 

 Massachusetts, emigrated in 1631. He remained at Roxbury in pas- 

 toral work throughout the remainder of his life: he died Mav 21, 

 WM. As indicated l)y Dr Hale, his enduring reputation rests chiefly 

 on his records of aboriginal languages; yet it would seem that he exer- 

 cised a still more important influence on his own and later generations 

 through his sympathetic eftorts to educate the tribesmen of New Eng- 

 land and to raise them toward the plane of self-respecting citizenship. 

 In this work, too, he was a pioneer; and undoul)tedly he did much to 

 prepare the minds of statesmen and philanthropists for the huinanita- 

 rian views of primitive men which chai'acterize modern policies toward 

 the Nation's wards. Thus it is particularly fitting that Eliot, the pio- 

 neer in sympathetic and systematic study of the aborigines, no less 

 than Trumbull, the direct contributoi'. should receive from the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology ^uch honor as this publication may confer. 



As has been noted l)y Dr Hale, the Trumbull manuscript and proof 

 passed through the hands of Dr Albert S. Gatschet and received the 

 benefit of his extended acquaintance with the native languages of the 

 Algonquian stock. The manuscript was not, however, edited crit- 

 ically; it was. on the other hand, aimed to pi'int the matter substan- 

 tially as it left the author's hands, with only those minor changes in 



