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Title verso copyright 1 1. preface pp. iii-iv, 

 conteuts pp. v-xii, text pp. 17-467, iudex of 

 authors iind authorities pp. 409-474, index of 

 subjects pp. 475-489, 8°. A collected reprint of 

 some of Dr. Briiitou".s more iuiportaut essays. 



Tlie earliest form of human speech as re- 

 vealed by American toujiues (read before the 

 American riiilosophical Society in 1885 and 

 published in their proceedings under the title 

 of "The language of palieolithic man"), pp. 

 39(M09. 



Comments on the Tinne language, pp. 394- 

 395.— Tinn6 words, p. 405. 



Copies seen : Bureau of Etluiology, Eames, 

 PiUing. 



The American Race : | A Linouistic 



Classification and Ethnogiapliic | De- 

 scription of the Native Tribes of | 

 North and South America. | By | Daniel 

 G. Brinton, A. M., M. D., | Professor 

 [&c. ten lines.] | 



New York: | N. D. C. Hodges, Pub- 

 lisher, 1 47 Lafayette Place. | 1891. 



Title verso copyright notice 1 1. dedication 

 Terso blank 1 1. preface pp. ix-xii, contents pp. 

 xiii-xvi, text pp. 17-332, linguistic appendix 

 pp. 333-364, additions and corrections pp. 305- 

 368, index of authors pp. 309-373, index of sub- 

 jects pp. 374-392, 8°. 



A brief discussion of the Athabascans 

 (Tiun6), with a list of divisions of the Atha- 

 bascan linguistic stock, pp. C8-74. 



Copies seen : Eames, rilling. 



Daniel Garrison Brinton, ethnologist, born in 

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

 graduated at Yale in 1858 and at the Jeflerson 

 Medical College in 1801, after which he spent a 

 year in Europe in study and in travel. On his 

 return lie entered the army, in August, 1802, as 

 acting assistant surgeon. In February 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 Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and 

 . other engagements, and was appointed medical 

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

 sequence of a sunstroke received soon after the 

 battle of Gettysburg he was disqualified for 

 active service, and in the autumn of that year he 

 became superintendent of hospitals at Quiucy 

 and Springfield, 111., until August, 1805, when, 

 the civil war having closed, ho was brevetted 

 lieutenant-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 many 

 editions. In the medical controversies of the 



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day, he has always taken the position that med- 

 ical science should be based on the results of 

 clinical observation rather than on physiological 

 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 lie was appointed professor of ethnology 

 and ardueology in the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences. Philadelphia. For some years he has 

 been president of the Numismatic and Anti- 

 quarian Society of Pliiladelphia. and in 1886 he 

 was elected vice-president 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 Soci6t6 Americaine de France for his 

 "numerous and learned works on American 

 ethnology." being the first native of the United 

 States that lias been so honored. In 1885 the 

 American publishers of the " Iconographic En- 

 cyclop;edia" requested him to edit the first vol- 

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

 pologj-" and "Ethnology," and to revise that 

 on "Ethnography," by Professor Gerland, of 

 Strasburg. He also contributed to the second 

 volume of the same work an essay on the "Pro- 

 historic Ardueology of both Hemispheres." 

 Dr. Brinton has established a library and pub- 

 lishing house of aboriginal American litera- 

 ture, for the purpose 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, most of which were edited by Dr. 

 Brinton himself, include " The Maya Chron- 

 icles " (Philadelphia. 1882); "The Iroquois 

 Book of Bites" (1883); 'The GUegiience: A 

 Comedy Ballet in the Nahuatl Spanish Dialect 

 of Nicaragua " (1883) ; "A Migration Legend of 

 the Creek Indians" (1884); "The Lenape and 

 Their Legends" (1885); "The Annals of the 

 Cakchiquels ' (1885). ["Ancient Nahuatl 

 Poetry" (1887); Rig A^eda Americanus (1890)]. 

 Besides publishing numerous papers, he has 

 contributed valuable reports ou his examina- 

 tions of mounds, shell-heaps, rock inscriptions, 

 and other auti(iuities. He is the author of " The 

 Floridiau Peninsula : Its Literary History, In- 

 dian Tribes, and Antiquities" (Philadelphia, 

 1859) ; • ' The Myths of the New "S\"orld : A Treat- 

 ise ou the Symliolism and Mythology of the Red 

 Race of America" (New York, 1868); "The 

 Religious Sentiment: A Contribution to the 

 Science and Philosophy of Religion" (1870); 

 "American Hero Myths : A Study in the Native 

 Religions of the Western Continent" (Philadel- 

 phia, 1882); "Aboriginal American Author.s and 

 their Productions, Especially those in the Native 

 Langmiges" (1883); and "A Grammar of the 

 Cakchiiiiiel Language of Guatemala" (1884). — 

 Apjdeton's Cyclop, of Am. Biog. 



