CHINOOK AN LANGUAGES. 



31 



Gallatin (A.)^('niitiiin.(l. 



[Jargon] aro about two Iiiiii(lre«l and liCty in 

 number. Of these, 11(1, iuclu<ling tlio nuiner- 

 ala, arc from tlio Tshiuuk, 17 from the. Nootka.s, 

 :i8 from either the one, or tlio otlier, but doubt- 

 ful from which; '3'.i from the Fnuich, and 41 

 from the English. These two last arc Hub- 

 joiued, as well as the words formed by ononia- 

 topieia; and an alphabetical English list of all 

 the other words is added, which will show of 

 what materials the scanty vocabulary c.onsist.s." 

 Vocabulary of the lowerChinook (179 words), 

 pp. SO-g.").— Vocabulary of the Watlala (60 

 words), p. 121. 



Titl>l«'. of fj;cii('ri<- Iii<liaii t'amilitvs of 



liinj,niiij;rs. 



In Schoolcraft (II. R.), Indian tribes, vol. 3, 

 pp. :3;)7 102, Philadelphia, 1&53. 4'>. 



Includes the Tshinook, ]). 402. 



Albert (lallatin was born in Geneva, Switzer- 

 land,. Tanuary 29, 1761, and died in Astoria, L.I., 

 August 12, 1K49. ilo was descended from an 

 ancient jiatrician family of Geneva, whoso name 

 had long been honorably connected with the 

 history of Switzerland. Young Albert had 

 been baptized by the name of Abraham Alfonse 

 Albert. In 1773 he was sent to a boarding 

 school and a year later entered the University 

 of Geneva, where he was graduated in 1779. He 

 sailed froui L'Orient late in May, 1780, and 

 reached Boston on.Iulyl4. He entered Con- 

 gress on December 7, 179.5, and continued a 

 member of that body until his api)ointment as 

 Secretary of the Treasury in 1801, which office 

 ho held continously until 1813. His services 

 were rewarded with the appointment of min- 

 ister to France in February, 181.5 ; he entered 

 on the duties of this otfice in January, 1816. In 

 1826, at the solicitation of President Adams, he 

 accepted the appointment of envoy extraordi- 

 nary to Great Britain. Ou his return to the 

 United States he settled in New York City, 

 where, from 1831 to 1839, he was president of the 

 Is'alional Bank of Xew York. In 1842 he was 

 associated in the establishment of the American 

 Ethnological .Society, becoming its first presi- 

 dent, and in 1843 he was elected to hold a simi- 

 lar othce in the New York Historical Soj'iety, an 

 honor which was annuallycon ferred on him until 

 his death. — \ppleton's Vi/clop. of Am. Biog. 



Gatschet : This word following a title or within 

 parentheses after a note indicates that a copy of 

 the work referred to has been seen by the com - 

 piler in the library of Mr. Albert S. Gatschet. 

 Washington, U. C. 



Gatschet (All)ert .Samuel). ludiaii lau- 

 gtiages of the Pacific states and terri- 

 tories. 



In Magazine of American Hist, vol.1, ])p. 

 145-171, New York, 1877, sm. 4°. (Pilling.) 



Short account of the Chinook language and 

 its dialects, p. 167. — Same of the Chinook Jar 

 gou, ]). 168. 



Issued separately with half-title as follows: 



Gatschet (A. S.) — ( 'oiitiiiMi'<l. 



Indian langiiage.s | of the | I'arific 



states and territories | Iiy | Allicrt S. 

 Gatschet | Reprinted froiuMareli [1S77] 

 Nunil)(!r of Tlie Magazine of American 

 History 



[New York: 1X77.] 



Half-title ver.so blank 1 1. text pji. 14,5-171, 

 sm. 4^. 



Linguistic contents asunder title next above. 



Go2>u'is seen : Astor, Eanu's, Pilling, Welles- 

 ley. 



Reprinted in the following works; 



Beach (W. AV.), Indian Miscellany, j)]>. 416 

 447, .Vlbany, 1877,8'^'. 



Drake (S. G.), Aboriginal races of North 

 Americii, i>p. 748-763, New York, 1882, S'^. 



A supj)letnentary i)aper by the same author 

 aiul with the .same title, which appeared in the 

 Magazine of American History, vol. 8, contains 

 no Chinookan material. 



Vocabulary of the, Claekama lan- 

 guage. 



Manuscript, 7 leaves, 4'', in the library of the 

 Bureaii of Ethnology. Collected at the Grande 

 Rondo Reserve, Yamhill Co., Oregon, in Decem- 

 ber, 1877, from Frank Johnson, a Clackama 

 Indian, and recorded on one of the Smiths(mian 

 forms (no. 170) of 211 words. About 150 words 

 and phrases are given. 



Words, phrases, ;tnd sentences in 



the Clackama laugtuige. 



Manuscript; recorded in a copy of Intro- 

 duction to the Study of Indian Languages, 1st 

 edition. Material collected at Grande Konde 

 reservation, Yamhill County, Oregon, Decem- 

 ber, 1877. 



Vocabulary of the Wasco and \Vac- 



canessisi dialects of the Chinuk family. 



Manuscript, 7 iip. fidio. Taken at the Kla- 

 math Lake Agency, Oregon, in 1877. 



Albert Samuel Gatschet was born in St. Beat- 

 enberg, iu the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, 

 October 3, 1832. His propedeutic education wa.s 

 acquired in the lyceums of Neuchatel (1843- 

 1845) and of Berne (1846-1852), after which he 

 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, history, language, and art, and thereby 

 his attention was at an early day directed to 

 philologic researches. In 1865 he began the pub- 

 licati(m of a series of brief monographs ou the 

 local etymology of his country, entitled '' Orts- 

 etymologische Forschungen aus der Schweiz" 

 (186.5-'67). In 1867 he spent several numths iu 

 London pursuing antiquarian studies in the 

 British Museum. In 1868 he settled in New York 

 and became a contribtitor to various domestic 

 ;iud foreign periodicals, mainly on scientilic 

 subjects. Drifting iiitoamore attentive study 

 of the American Indians, he published several 

 compositions vipon their Liuguages, the most 



