WAKASHAN LANGUAGES. 



17 



Dall (W. H.) — Continued. 



Jeffries Wyman and Daniel Rrainard. In 1865 hp 

 was appointed lieutenant in the international 

 telegraph expedition, and in this capacity vis- 

 ited Alaska in 1865-1868. From 1871 till 1880 he 

 was assistant to the U. S. Coast Survey and 

 under its direction spent the years 1871 to 1874 

 and 1884 in that district. His work, besides the 

 exploration and description of the geography, 

 included the anthropologv, natural history, and 

 geology of the Alaskan and adjaient regions. 

 From the field work and collections have 

 resulted maps, memoirs, coast pilot, and papers 

 on these subjects or branches of them. [Since 

 1884 he has been] paleontologist to the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, and since 1869 he has been 

 honorary curator of the department of mollusks 

 in the U. S. National Museum. In this office he 

 has made studies of recent and fossil mollusks 

 of the world, and especially of North America, 

 from which new information has been derived 

 concerning the brachiopoda, patellida', chiton- 

 idne, and the mollusk fauna of tlie deep sea. 

 These studies have grown out of those devoted 

 to the fauna of northwestern America and east- 

 ern Siberia. Mr. Ball lias been honored with 

 elections to nearly all the scientific societies in 

 this country, and to many abroad. In 1882 and 

 in 1885 he was vice-president of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 and presided over the sections of biology and 

 anthropology. His scientific papers include 

 about two hundred titles. Among the separate 

 books are "Alaska and its Resources" (Boston, 

 1870): "Tribes of the Extreme Northwest" 

 (Washington. 1877); 'Coast Pilot of Alaska. 

 Appendix 1, Meteorology and Bibliograi)hy ' 

 1879); "The Currents and Temjieratures of 

 Bering Sea and the Adjacent Waters" (1882); 

 "Pacific Coast Pilot and the Islands of Alaska, 

 Dixon Entrance to Takutat Bay. with the 

 Inland Passage" (1883); "Prehistoric Amer- 

 ica." by the Marquis deNadaillac. edited (New 

 York, 1885); and • Report on the MoUusca, 

 Brachiopoda, and Pelecypoda ' of the Blake 

 dredging expedition in the West Indies (Cam- 

 bridge, 1886). — Appleton'g Cyclop, of Am. Biog. 



Da^wson (George Mercer). Notes and 

 observations on tlio Kwakiool People 

 of tlie Northern Part of Vancouver 

 Island and Adjacent Coasts, made 

 during the Summer of 1885; with a 

 Vocabulary of about seven liundred 

 words. By (ieorge M. Daw,son, D. S., 

 F. G. S., Assistant-Director Geological 

 Survey of Canada. 



In Royal Soc. of Canada Proc. and Trans. 

 vol. 5, section 2, pp. 63-98, Montreal, 1888, 4^^. 

 (Geological Survey.) 



Notes on tribal subdivisions of the Kwa- 

 kiool, and details respecting them (pp. 64-75), 

 contains a statistical tableof tribal subdivisions 

 for the year ending June 30, 188-'>, by Geo. Blen- 

 kinsop, i>. 65 ; meaning of native terms pas- 



WAK 2 



Davrson (G. M.) — Continued. 



sim. — Mode of life, arts and customs of the 

 Kwakiool includes a discustiion of the numer- 

 als, mode of counting, measuring, etc., pp. 75- 

 79. — Custom of the Potlatch or donation feast, 

 including native terms iiassim, pp. 79-81. — Tra- 

 ditions, folk-loreand religion, with many native 

 terms, names of h^gendary characters, etc , 

 passim, pp. 81-87. — Vocabulary of about seven 

 liundred wordsof the Kwakiool language (from 

 Ta-a-kotlea-katlos (Tom) of the K6m-o-yaw6, a 

 subdivision or sept of the Kwa'-ki-ool or Kwa-' 

 kutl tribe, now inhabiting the vicinity of Fort 

 Rujiert, Beaver Harbour, Vancouver Island), 

 pp. 80-98. 



In Ills introductory remarks the author 

 states : " The subjoined vocabulary is based on 

 tlie 8<liedules of words given by Major J. W. 

 Powell ill his 'Introduction to the Study of 

 Indian languages.' Having been obtained 

 from an educated Indian, with the additional 

 assistance of a good interpreter, it is much 

 more complete than those given for several 

 tribes of the Kwakiool people by Dr. Tolmie 

 and the writer in the 'Comparative Vocabula- 

 ries of the Indian tribes of BritishColumbia.'" 

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



Issued separately, with title-page as follows: 



Section IT, 1887. Trans. Royal Soc, 



Can. I Notes and observations | on 

 the I Kwakiool people of Vancouver 

 island | by | George M. Dawson, D. S., 

 F. G. S., I Asst-Director of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Canada | From the | 

 transactions of the Royal society | of 

 Canada | volume V, section 11, 1887 | 



Montreal | Dawson brothers, publish- 

 ers I 1888 



Cover title as above, no inside title, text pp. 

 1-36, plate, i°. 



Linguistic contents as under title next above. 



Copies seen : Geological Survey, Pilling, 

 Wellesley. 



See Tolmie (W.F.) and Da-wson (G. 



M.) 



George Mercer Dawson was born at Pictoii, 

 Nova Scotia, August 1, 1849, and is tbeeldestson 

 of Sir William Dawson, principal of McGill 

 University, Montreal. He was educated at 

 McGill College and the Royal School of Mines ; 

 held the Duke of Cornwall's scholarship, given 

 Ijy the Prince of Wales; and took the Edward 

 Forbes medal in palieontology and the Murch- 

 ismi 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, ho 

 published a report under the title of " Geoh)gy 

 and Resources of the Forty-ninth Parallel." In 

 July, 1875, he received an appointment on the 

 geological survey of Canada. From 1875 to 1879 

 he was occupied in the geological survey and 

 exploration of British Columbia, and subse- 



