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Barton (B. S.) — Contiuued. 



Examples in Delaware, Pampticough, Saaki- 

 kani, Miami, Piankashaw, Narragansett, Nau- 

 ticoke, Mohican, and Chippewa. 

 £ — — ] Some account of the different spe- 

 cies and varieties of native American, 

 or Indian dogs. By the Editor. 



In the Philadelphia Mod. and Phys. Jour, vol, 

 1, pt. 2, pp. 3-31, Philadelphia, 1805, 8°. (Con- 

 gress.) 



Names for dogs in various North and South 

 American dialects, among them the Delaware, 

 Nantikoke, Mahican, Monsee, Chippewa, Mes- 

 sisauger, Ottawa, Penobscot, Natic, Narragan- 

 set, Miami, Pottawatameh, Shawnee, and 



Benjamin Smith Barton, physician, born in 

 Lancaster, Pa., February 10, 1766 ; died in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. , December 19, 1815. After a course 

 of general studies under Dr. Andrews, at York, 

 Pa., he followed the instructions given at the 

 Philadelphia College, now University of Penn- 

 sylvania. Then during 1786-'88 he studied 

 medicine and the natural sciences in Edinburgh 

 and London, and received his medical degree 

 from the University of Gottingen, Germany. 

 On his return he settled in Philadelphia, where 

 he soon acquired an extensive and lucrative 

 practice. In 1789 he was appointed professor 

 of natural history and, botany, and in 1795 of 

 materia medica in the college of Philadelphia. 

 In 1813 he succeeded Dr. Benjamin Eush as 

 professor of the theory and practice of medicine 

 in the University of Pennsylvania. He was 

 elected president «^t,hpi Philadelphia Medical 

 Society in 1809, and was some time vice-presi- 

 dent of the American Philosophical Society, 

 and also a member of many other American 

 and European societies. He contributed nu- 

 merous papers to the "Transactions of the 

 American Philosophical Society," and to the 

 "Medical and Physical Journal," which was 

 published by him. His most important works 

 are: "Observations on Some Parts of Natural 

 History" (London, 1787) ; "New Views on the 

 Origin of the Tribes of America" (1797) ; "Ele- 

 ments of Botany," Philadelphia, 1803, 2d ed., 2 

 vols., 1812-'14; an edition of Cullen's "Materia 

 Medica:" "Eulogy on Dr. Priestley;" "Dis- 

 course on the Principal Desiderata of Natural 

 History" (Philadelphia, 1807) ; and "Collections 

 toward a Materia Medica of the United States " 

 (3d ed., Philadelphia, 1810).— Appleton's Cyclop, 

 of Am. Biog. 



Bartsch (Heinrich). [Collection of 361 

 specimens of the Lord's prayer in 130 

 languages and dialects.] (*) 



Manuscript, 2 vols. 4°. Preserved in the 

 Eaths-Bibliothek, at Konigsberg, Germany. 



Contains the Lord's prayer in Gaspesian or 

 Micmac, furnished by La Croze(—), and which 

 is printed in Adelung's Mithridates, vol. 3, part 

 3, p. 404. 



Heinrich Bartsch, at first secretary of the 

 Old Town of Konigsberg, and since 1724 regis- 



Bartsch (H.) — Continued. 



trator of the town archives, was born there ia 

 1667 and died in 1728. To what extent he was 

 related to the Gottfried Bartsch mentioned by 

 Audr. Miiller, Iknownot; his father, also Hein- 

 rich, was vice-burgomaster of Konigsberg. Our 

 Heinrich, as far back as 1717, was engaged in 

 the scheme of publishing a more copious collec- 

 tion than that of Chamberlayne, and hence 

 spared no diligence in gathering all kinds of 

 formultB yet unprinted in all sorts of languages 

 and dialects. He did not, however, live to see 

 it completed, but bequeathed his collection of 

 manuscripts to the library of the council of his 

 native town, where it is still extant. Having 

 received, through the kindness of Mr. D. Wald, 

 a list of all the copies it contains, I am enabled 

 to give a detailed account of it. The whole 

 consists of two volumes in 4to, nearly all loose 

 leaves with inserted original letters by Bayer, 

 la Croze, and others. The languages are ar- 

 ranged alphabetically. The first part contains 

 228 formulae in 69 languages and dialects, the 

 second 133 formulae in 61 languages and dia- 

 lects, making together 361 formulae. To judge 

 by these figures, the collection would have 

 turned out to be, therefore, the richest and most 

 complete. But as the author gathered not only 

 translations but also poetic transcripts, and of 

 translations not only all various translations in 

 one and the same language but all the different 

 copies of one and the same translations, how- 

 ever faulty, much has to be deducted to obtain 

 its real value, and there remains possibly little 

 more than may be found in Chamberlayne. As 

 the author possessed a decided inclination to- 

 wards the fantastic, as appears from his life, 

 this is not surprising. It is possible, however, 

 that if he had been permitted to undertake the 

 publication, he would have omitted much. Still 

 it is impossible not to admire the industry with 

 which he gathered all printed formulae from a 

 number of writings, some of them rare. Of un- 

 printed ones I have found only one, that of the 

 Gaspesians or Micmacs in Canada, communi- 

 cated to him by la Croze, and which I shall util- 

 ize in its place. See his life in Acta Boruss., part 

 2,1^.923.— Adelung's Mithridates, vol. 1, pp. 666- 

 667, 



Bastian (Philipp Wilhelm Adolf.) Eth- 

 noiogie und vergleichende Linguistik. 



In Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologic, vol. 4 (1872), pp, 

 137-162, 211-231, Berlin [n. d.], 8°. 



Contains examples in and grammatic com- 

 ments upon a number of American languages, 

 among them the Mohegan and Massachusetts, 

 pp. 211, 220; the Delaware and the Cree, p. 226. 



Bates (Henry Walton). Stanford's | com- 

 pendium of geography and travel | 

 based on Hellwald's * Die Erde und ihre 

 Volker' i Central America | the West In- 

 dies i and I South America | Edited and 

 extended | By H. w'. Bates, | assistant- 

 secretary of the Royal geographical so- 



