SALISHAN LANGUAGES. 



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Cooper (J. G.) Vocabulary of the Tsi- 

 h.'t-lisb. 



Manuscript, 3 pages, 4° ; in the library of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology. Collected in 1854. Con- 

 sists of 180 -nords. 



In the same library is a copy of this manu- 

 script, 3 pages, 4°, made by its compiler, and a 

 I)artial one, two leaves, folio,mado by Dr. Geo. 

 Gibbs. 



Cowitchen. See Kawichen. 



Cowlitz. See Kaiilits. 



Craig {Dr. R. O.) Vocabulary of the Ska- 

 git. 



Manuscript, 2 pages, 4° ; in the library of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology. Collected at Ft. Bel- 

 liugham, "Washington Ty., Sept., 1858. Con- 

 tains 72 words only. 



A copy of this vocabulary, made by Dr. Geo. 

 Gibbs, is in the same library. 



Vocabulary of the Suohomish. 



Manuscript, 4 pages folio ; in the library of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology. Contains 45 words only. 



D. 



Daa (Ludwig Kristenseu). On the affin- 

 ities between the languages of the 

 northern tribes of the old and new con- 

 tinents. By Lewis Kr. Daa, Esq., of 

 Christiania, Norway. (Read December 

 the 20th.) 



In Philological Soc. [of London] Trans. i85U, 

 pp. 251-294, London [1857], 8°. (Congress.) 



Comparative tables showing affinities be- 

 tween Asiatic and American languages, pp. 264- 

 285, contains words from many North American 

 languages, the Salishan being represented by 

 the Tsehaili, Selish, Okanagen, Atnah, Kawi- 

 tchen, Koosdalum, Squalyamish, and Bille- 

 choola. 



Davis (Marion) . See Eells (M. ) 

 Dawson {Dr. George Mercer). Notes on 

 the Shuswap People of British Colum- 

 bia. By George M. Daw.son, LL. D., 

 F. R. S., Assistant Director Geological 

 Survey of Canada. (Read May 27, 1891.) 

 In Royal Soc. of Canada, Proe. .and Trans, for 

 1891, vol. 9, section 2, pp. 3-44, Montreal, 1892, 

 map, 4°. (Bureau of Ethnology.) 



General discussion of the people, references 

 to published and unpublished linguistic mate- 

 rial, etc., pp. 3-4. — Tribal subdivisions, with 

 etymologies, names given other tribes, etc. 

 (partly by Muckay), pp. 4-7. —Villages and 

 houses, pp. 7-10, coutain a number of native 

 terms. — Measures of length employed by the 

 Shuswap (6 terms), p. 19. — Plants u.sed as food 

 and for other purposes, pp. 19-23, includes a 

 number of native terms passim. — Historical 

 notes (pp. 23-26) includes a number of personal 

 names, a vocabulary (13 words) and numerals 

 1-9, p. 25. — Vocabulary (11 words) obtained 

 from Joyaska, a native, p. 26. — Account of the 

 first knowledge of the whites (from Mackay), 

 pp. 26-28, contains a number of personal and 

 geographic names.— Mytliology, pp. *i8-35, con- 

 tains a number of native words and phra^s 

 (partly from Mackay).— Stories attaching to 

 particular localities, pp. 35-38, includes a num- 

 ber of bird and geographic names. — Names of 

 the stars and months, pp. :^9-40.— List of 220 

 place-names in the Shuswap couutry, with 



Dawson (G. M. ) — Continued. 



meanings: 1, Shuswap names (130) of places 

 on the Kamloops sheet, pp. 40-42 ; 2, Shuswap 

 names (64) of places beyond the limits of the 

 Kamloops sheet, pp. 43-44 ; 3, Shuswap names 

 (20) of inhabited villages, p. 44.— A few (7) of 

 the principal villages beyond the limits of the 

 Kamloops sheet, p. 44. 



"I am indebted to Mr. "W. Mackay, Indian 

 agent at Kamloops, for several interesting con- 

 tributions, which will be found embodied in the 

 following pages." 



Issued separately, with half-title as follows : 



Notes on the Shuswap people of 



British Columbia. | By George M. Daw- 

 son, LL.D., F. R. S. I Assistant Director, 

 Geological Survey of Canada. 



[Montreal: Dawson brothers. 1892.] 



Half-title on cover, no inside title, text pp. 3- 

 44, map, 4°. 



Linguistic contents as under title next above. 



Copies seen : Eames, Pilling. 



See Tolmie (W.F.) and Dawson (G. 



(M.) 



George Mercer Dawson was born at Pictou, 

 Nova Scotia, August 1, 1849, and is the eldest son 

 of Sir William Dawson, principal of McGill 

 University, Montreal. He was educated at 

 McGill College and the Royal Scliool of Mines; 

 held the Duke of Cornwall's scholarship, given 

 by the Prince of Wales ; and took the Edward 

 Forbes medal in paleontology and the Murch- 

 ison medal in geology. He was appointed geol- 

 ogist and naturalist to Her Majesty's North 

 American Boundary Commission in 1873, and at 

 the close of the commission's work, in 1875, lie 

 published a report under the title of " Geology 

 and Resources of the Forty-ninth Parallel." In 

 July, 1875, he received an aiipointment on the 

 geological survey of Canada. From 1875 to 1879 

 he was occupied in tlie geological survey and 

 exploration of Britisli Columbia, and subse- 

 (jueutly engaged in similar work, both in the 

 Northwest Territory aud British Columbia. Dr. 

 Dawson is the ;iuthor of numerous ])apers on 

 geology, natural history, and ethnology, pub- 

 lished in the Canadian Naturalist, Quarterly 

 Journal of tUe Geological Society, TrauBactiQQs 



