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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Gatschet (A. S.) — Coiitiiined. 



Separat-Abilriick ana <lem Corrcspondcni!- 

 Blattder Deutsclicii anthropologisclien (lescll- 

 scliaft, pp. 20-23, nns. 3-4, 1892, i°. (Pilling.) 



A general discussion of tlio gratnniatic pecul- 

 iarities of a iiuuibor of American languages, 

 among them the Salishan. 



[Vocabulary of the Nonstoki or 



Nestucca laugnage. Collected by A. S. 

 Gatschet in Tillamuk county, Oregon, 

 November, 1877.] 



Manuscript, 10 11. 4°. Injthe library of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology. Kecorrteil on a blank 

 form (no. 170) issued by the Suiitlisoniau Insti- 

 tution. It contains about 220 words. 



In the .same library is a copy of this vocabii- 

 lary, made by its compiler, 7 11. folio, written on 

 one side only. 



Albert Samuel Gatschet was born in St. Boat- 

 enberg, in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, 

 October 3, 1832. His propiedeutic education was 

 acquired in the lyceums of Neuchatel (1843- 

 1845) and of Berne (184(>-1852), after which ho 

 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, historj', language, and art, and thereby 

 his attention was at an early day directed to 

 philologic researches. In 1865 ho began the pub- 

 lication of a series of brief monographs on tho 

 local etymology of his country, entitled " Orts- 

 etymologische Forschungen aus der Schweiz" 

 (18G5-1867). In 1867 he .spent several months 

 in Loudon pursuing antiquarian studies in the 

 British Museum. In 1868 he settled in New York 

 and became a contributor to various domestic 

 and foreign periodicals, mainly on scientific 

 subjects. Drifting into a more attentive study 

 of the American Indians, ho published several 

 compositions upon their languages, the most 

 important of which is " Zwolf Sprachen aus 

 dem Siidwcsten Nordamerikas," Weimar, 1876. 

 This led to his appointment to the position 

 of ethnologist in the United States Geological 

 Survey, under Maj. John "W. Powell, in March, 

 1877, when he removed to Washington, and first 

 employed himself in arranging the linguistic 

 manuscripts of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 now the property of tho Bureau of Ethnologj', 

 which forms a part of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. Mr. Gatschet has ever since been actively 

 connected with that bureau. To increase its 

 linguistic collections and to extend his own 

 studies of the Indian languages, ho has made 

 extensive trips of linguistic and ethnologic 

 exploration among tho Irulians of North Amer- 

 ica. After returning from a six months' 

 sojourn among the Klamaths and Kalapuyas 

 of Oregon, settled on both sides of the Cascade 

 Range, he visited the Kataba in South Carolina 

 and the Cha'hta and Shetimasha of Louisiana 

 in 1881-'82, the Kayowe, Comanche, Apache, 

 Yattassee, Caddo, Naktche, Modoc, and other 

 tribes in the Indian Territory, tlie Tonkawe 

 and Lipans in Texas, and the Atakapa Indians 



Gatschet (A. S.) — Continued. 



of Louisiana in 1884-'S5. In 1886 he saw the 

 Tlaskaltecs at Saltillo, Mexico, a remnant of the 

 Nahua race, brought there about 1575 from 

 Anahuac, and was the first to discover the affin- 

 ity of the Biloxi language with the Siouan fam- 

 ily. He also committed to writing the Tunixka 

 or Touica language of Louisiana, never before 

 investigated and forming a linguistic family of 

 itself. Excursions to other parts of the country 

 brought to his knowledge other Indian lan- 

 guages: the Tuskarora, Caughnawaga, Penob- 

 scot, and Karankawa. 



Mr. Gatschet has written an extensive report 

 embodying his researches among the Klamath 

 Lake and Modoclndians of Oregon, which forms 

 Vol. II of "Contributions to North American 

 Ethnology." It is in two parts, which aggre- 

 gate 1,520 pages. Among the tribes and lan- 

 guages discussed by him in separate publi- 

 cations are the Timucua (Florida), Tonlcawe 

 (Texas), Yuma (California, Arizona, Mexico), 

 Chrimeto (('alifornia), Beothuk (Newfound- 

 land), Creek, and Hitchiti (Alabama). His 

 numerous publications are scattered through 

 magazines and government reports, some being 

 contained in the Proceedings of the American 

 Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. 



Gendre (P«'c — ). Compo.sedby | Father 

 Gendre O. M. I. | Prayers | in Shuswap. 

 [Kamloops, B. C: 1891.] 

 No title-page; text, with heading as above, 

 pp. 5-12, 32°. Written in Shuswap by Father 

 Gendre and transliterated into shorthand by 

 Father Le Jeune, editor and publisher of tho 

 Kamloops Wawa, who reproduced it by aid of 

 the mimeograph. 



Copies seen : Pilling. 

 General discussion : 



Atna See Adelung (J. C.) and 



Vater (J. S. ) 



