CHINOOKAN LANGUAGES. 



31 



Gallatin ( A. ) — Continued. 



[Jargon] are about two luindrert and ttfty in 

 number. Of these, tlU, including the numer- 

 als, are from the Tshinuk, 17 from theMootkas, 

 38 from either the one or the other, but doubt- 

 ful from which ; 33 from the French, and 41 

 from the English. These two last are sub- 

 joined, as well as tlie words formed by onoma- 

 topoeia; and an alphabetical P^.nglish list of all 

 the other words is added, which will show of 

 ■what materials the scanty vocabulary consists. ' ' 

 Vocabulary of the lower Chinook (179 words) , 

 pp. 89-95.— Vocabulary of the Watlala (60 

 words), p. 121. 



Table of generic Indian families of 



languages. 



In Schoolcraft (H. R.), Indian tribes, vol. 3, 

 pp. 397-402, Philadelphia, 1853, 4°. 



Includes the Tshinook, p. 402. 



Albert Gallatin was born in Geneva, Switzer- 

 land, January 29, 1761, and died in Astoria, L. I., 

 August 12, 1849. He was descended from an 

 ancient jiatrician family of Geneva, whose name 

 had long been honorably connected with tin? 

 history of Switzerland. Young Albert had 

 been baptized by the name of Abraham Alfonse 

 Albert. In 1773 he was sent to a boarding 

 school and a year later entered the University 

 of Geneva, where he was graduated in 1779. He 

 sailed froiu L'Orient late in May, 1780, and 

 reached Boston on July 14. He entered Con- 

 gress on December 7, 1795, and continued n 

 member of that body until his appointment as 

 Secretary of the Treasury in 1801, which office 

 he held continously until 1813. His services 

 were rewarded with the appointment of min- 

 ister to France in February, 1815 ; he entered 

 on the duties of this ofKce in January, 1816. In 

 1826, at the solicitation of President Adams, he 

 accepted the appointment of envoy extraordi- 

 nary to Great Britain. On his return to the 

 United States he settled iu New York City, 

 where, from 1831 to 1839, he was president of the 

 National Bank of New York. In 1842 he was 

 associated in the establishment of the American 

 Ethnological Society, becoming its iirst i)resi- 

 dent, and in 1843 he was elected to hold a simi- 

 lar othce in the New York Historical .Society, an 

 honor which wasannuallyconferredonhim until 

 his death. — A2)pleton's Cyclop, of Am. Biog. 



Gatschet: Tliis word following a title or within 

 parentheses after a note indicates tliat acojjy of 

 the work referred to lia.s been seen by the com- 

 piler in the library of Mr. Albert S. Gatachet, 

 Washington, 1). C. 



G-atschet (Albert Samuel). Indian l;in- 

 guages of the Pacific states and terri- 

 tories. 



In Magazine of American Hist. vol. 1, pp. 

 145-171, New York, 1877, sm. 4'^. (Pilling.) 



Short account of the (.'liinook language and 

 its dialects, p. 167. — .Same of the Chinook Jar- 

 gon, p. 168. 



Issued separately with Iialf-titlc, as follows: 



Gatschet (A. .S.) — Continued. 



Indian languages | of the | Pacific 



states and territories | l)y | Albert S. 

 Gatschet | Reprinted from March [1877] 

 Number of The Magazine of American 

 History 



[New York: 1877.] 



Half title verso blank 1 1. text pp. 145-171, 

 sm. 4". 



Linguistic contents as under title next above. 



Copies seen : Astor, Eames, Pilling, Welles- 

 ley. 



Reprinted in tlie following works : 



Beach (W. "W.), Indian Miscellany, pp. 416- 

 447, .Vlbany, 1877,8". 



Drake (S. G.), Aboriginal races of North 

 America, pp. 748-763, New York, 1882, 8'=. 



A supplementary paper by the same author 

 and with the same title, whicli appeared in the 

 Magazine of American History, vol. 8, contains 

 no Chinookan material. 



Vocabulary of the Clackama lan- 

 guage. 



Manuscript, 7 leaves, 4^, iu the library of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology. Collected at the Grande 

 RondeReserve, Yamhill Co., Oregon, in Decem- 

 ber, 1877, from Frank Johnson, a Clackama 

 Indian, and recorded on one of the Smithsonian 

 forms (no. 170) of 211 words. About 150 -words 

 and phrases are given. 



AVords, phrases, an<l sentences in 



the Clackama language. 



Manuscript; recorded in a copy of Intro- 

 duction to the Study of Indian Languages, 1st 

 edition. Material collected at Grande Rondo 

 reservation, Yamhill County, Oregon, Decem- 

 ber, 1877. 



Vocabulary of the Wasco and Wac- 



canessisi dialects of the Chinuk family. 



Manuscript, 7 pp. folio. Taken at the Kla- 

 math Lake Agency, Oregon, in 1877. 



Albert Samuel (Jatsehet was born in St. Beat- 

 enberg, in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, 

 October 3, 1832. His proitedeutic education was 

 acquired in the lyceums of Neuchatel (1843- 

 1845) and of Berne (1846-1852), after wliicli he 

 followed courses in the universities of Berne 

 and Berlin (1852-1858). His studies had for 

 their object the ancient world in all its phases of 

 religion, history, lauguagi-. and ait, and then'l)y 

 his attention was at an early day directed to 

 pbilologic researches. In 1865hebeganthepnl)- 

 lication of a series of brief nu)nographs on the 

 local etymology of his country, entitled ''Orts- 

 etyniologische Forschungen aus der Scliweiz" 

 (1865-'67). In 1867 he sjient several montlis in 

 London pursuing antiquarian studies in the 

 British Museum. In 1868 hesettledin Now York 

 and became a contributor to various domestic 

 and foreign periodicals, mainly on scientitic 

 subjects. Drifting intoamore attentive study 

 of the American Indians, be published several 

 compositions u})ou tlieir Linguagos, tlie most 



