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of the Tsoneca or TeLuelhet dialect, comprising 

 about sixty words and ten numerals. These 

 correspond closely with the various other lists 

 of terms collected by travelers. At the close 

 of the MS., however, there is a short vocabu- 

 lary of an entirely different linguistic stock, 

 without name of collector, date or place, sinless 

 the last words -'a la Soleta," refer to some 

 locality. Elsewhere the same numerals are 

 given, and a few words, evidently from some 

 dialect more closely akin to the Tsoneca, and 

 the name Hongote i.s applied to the tongue. 

 This maybe a coiTuption of 'Choonke,' the 

 name which Kamon Lista and other Spanish 

 writers apply to the Tsoneca (Hongote=Chou- 

 gote=Choonke=Ts6neca) . 



"The list which 1 copy below, however, does 

 not seem closelj' allied to the Tehuelhet, nor to 

 any other tongue with which I have compared 

 it. The MS. is generally legible, though to a 

 fe-n- words I have placed an interrogation mark, 

 indicating that the handwriting was uuceitain. 

 The sheet contains the following [Salishan 

 vocabulary]". 



In the issue of Science of May 1.3, 1892, Dr. 

 Brinton publishes the following note, the sub- 

 stance of which also appears in the Proceed- 

 ings of the American Philosophical Society for 

 April, 1892: 



"In a series of ten studies of South American 

 languages, principally from MS. sources, which 

 I published in the last number of the Proceed- 

 ings of the American Philosophical Societj', 

 one was partly devoted to the ' Hongote ' lan- 

 guage, a vocabulary of which I found in a mass 

 of documents in the British Museum stated to 

 relate to Patagonia. I spoke of it as an inde- 

 pendent stock, not related to other languages 

 of that locality. lu a letter just received from 

 Dr. Franz Boas he points out to me that the 

 'Hongote' is certainly Salish and must have 

 been collected in the Straits of Fuca, on the 

 northwest coast. How it came to be in the 

 MS. referred to I cannot imagine, but I hasten 

 to announce the correction as jiromptly as pos- 

 sible." 



Copies seen: Bureau of Ethnology, Eames, 

 Pilling. 



Daniel Garrison Brinton, ethnologist, born in 

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

 graduated at Tale in 1858 and at the Jetterson 

 Medical College in 1861, after which he spent a 

 year in Europe in study and in travel. On his 

 return he entered the army, in August, 1862, as 

 acting assistant surgeon. In Pebruary 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 Cliancellorsville, Gettysburg, and 

 other engagements, and was appointed medical 

 director of his corps in October, 1863. In con- 

 se(iuencoof a sunstroke received soon after the 

 battle of Gettysburg ho was disqualified for 

 active service, and in the autumn of that year he 

 became sui)eriutfniloiit of hospitals at Quincy 



Brinton (D. G.) — Contiuited. 



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

 the civil war having closed, he was brevetted 

 lieutentant-colonel and discharged. He then 

 settled in Philadelphia, where he became editor 

 of The Medical and Surgical Reporter, and 

 also of the quarterly Compendium 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 pop- 

 ular series known as Napheys's Modern Ther- 

 apeutics, which has passed through so manj' 

 editions. In the medical controversies of the 

 day, ho has always taken the position that med- 

 ical science should be based on the results of 

 clinical observation rather than on ph j'siological 

 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, supplied him with material 

 for his first published book on the subject. In 

 1884 he was appointed professor of etlinology 

 and archsBology in the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, Philadelphia. For some years he has 

 been president of the Numismatic and Anti- 

 quarian Society of Philadelphia, and in 1886 he 

 was elected vico-in-esident of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, to 

 preside over the section on anthropology. Dur- 

 ing the same year he was awarded the medal 

 of the Societe Ani6ricaino de France for his 

 "numerous and learned works on American 

 ethnology, "being theflrst native of the United 

 States that has been so honored. In 1885 the 

 American publishers of the Iconographic En- 

 cyclopaedia requested him to edit the first vol- 

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

 pology" and " Ethnology" and to revise that on 

 " Ethnography, "by Professor Gerland, of Stras- 

 burg. He also contributed to the second vol- 

 ume of the same work an essay on the "Prehis- 

 toric ArchfBology of both Hemispheres." Dr. 

 Brinton has established a library and publish- 

 ing house of aboriginal American literature, 

 for the jjurpose of placing 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, mostof which were edited by Dr. Brinton 

 himself, include The Maya Chronicles (Phila- 

 delphia, 1882); The Iroquois Book of Rites 

 (1883); The Giiegiience: A Comedy Ballet in 

 the Nahuatl Spanish Dialect of Nicaragua 

 (1883) ; A Migration Legend of the Creek In- 

 dians (1884) ; The Lenape and Their Legends 

 (1885); The Annals of the Cakchiquels (1885) ; 

 [Ancient Nahuatl Poetry (1887); Rig Veda 

 Americanns (1890)]. Besides publishing numer- 

 ous papers ho has contributed valuable reports 

 on his examinations of mound:'', .shell-heaps, 

 rock inscriptions, and other antiquities. He is 

 the author of The I'^loridian Peninsula: Its Lit- 



