206 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



German (0.) — Continued. 



Printed cover as above, no inside title, text 

 (entirely in tlie Cree language, Roman charac- 

 ters) pp. 1-12, 16°. 



A translation of Charles and John Wesley's 

 rnles for the Methodists, 1743. 



Oopies seen : Eames, Pilling, Powell. 



£ ] Meyoo-achimoowin | mena | nunio- 



weyapa-petoosayimowuk. | [Design.]] 

 Toronto: | Methodist mission rooms, | 

 Temperance Street. [1885.] 



Translation .• The good news and not different 

 they are thought. 



Printed cover as above, no inside title, text 

 (entirely in the Cree language, Roman charac- 

 ters) pp. 1-18, 1-20, 16°. 



Two of Mr. Moody's sermons translated into 

 the Cree language. 



Oopies seen : Eames, Pilling, Powell, 



Cresuer (Abraham). New Brunswick; | 

 with I Notes for Emigrants. | Compre- 

 heudiug the early history, an account 

 of the Indians, settle- [ ment, topog- 

 raphy, statistics, commerce, timber, 

 manufactures, | agriculture, fisheries, 

 geology, natural history, social | and 

 political state, immigrants, and con- 

 tem- I plated railways of that prov- 

 ince. I [Picture.] | By Abraham Gesner, 

 .€sq. I surgeon; | fellow [&c, six lines.] | 



London: Simmonds & Ward, | 6, 

 Barge yard, | Bucklersbury. | 1847. 



Half-title verso blank 1 1. title verso printers 

 11. preface pp. v-ix, contents pp. xi-xv, list of 

 illustrations p. xvi, text pp. 1-388, 8°. 



Lord's prayer in Melicete, p. 117; in Micmac 

 (Quebec version), p. 118. 



Oopies seen : Geological Survey. 



G-ete dibadjimowin [Chippewa]. See 

 Baraga (F.) 



Gete dibadjimowin [Chippewa]. See 

 Vogt (C.) and Gafron (J.) 



Gibbs (George). Smithsonian miscella- 

 neous collections. I 160 I Instructions |^ 

 for research relative to the | ethnology 

 and philology | of j America. | Prepared 

 for the Smithsonian Institution. | By | 

 George Gibbs. | [Seal of the institu- 

 tion.] I 



Washington: | Smithsonian institu- 

 tion : I March, 1863. 



Title verso blank 1 1. contents verso blank 1 1. 

 introduction p. 1, text pp. 2-51, 8°. 



Also forms part of vol. 7, Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution Miscellaneous Collections. Prepared 

 for and distributed to collectors, resulting in 

 the securing of many manuscripts, mostly phi- 

 lologic, which are now in the library of the 

 Eureau of Ethnology. 



Gibbs (G.) — ^ Continued, 



Numerals 1-10 of the Lenni Lenape (from 

 Zeisberger), p. 42. 



Copies seen: Astor, Eames, National Mu- 

 seum, Pilling, Powell, Trumbull. 



At the Field sale, no. 810, a copy brought 

 30cts. ; at the Squier sale, no. 415, 45 cts. ; at 

 the Pinart sale, no. 406, 1 fr. Priced by Koehler, 

 catalogue 465, no. 233, 1 M. 50 Pf. 



A portion of this paper, including the nu- 

 merals, was reprinted in the Historical Maga- 

 zine, first series, vol. 9, pp. 249-252, New York, 

 1865, 40. 



On the language of the aboriginal 



Indians of America. 



In Smithsonian Institution, Ana. Rept. 1870, 

 pp. 364-367, Washington, 1871, 8°. 



Includes brief remarks on the Otchipw6 or 

 Chippeway language. 



Principles of the Algonquin gram- 

 mar. 1861. 



Manuscript, 5 pp. 4°, in the library of the Bu- 

 reau of Ethnology. 



Chapter 1. Parts of speech, genders, num- 

 bers, cases, pp. 1-2.— Chapter 2. Of the different 

 attributes to which nouns are subject, pp. 3-5. 



Vocabulary of the Sa- wan- wan or 



Shawanee language. 1866. 



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

 Bureau of Ethnology; Smithsonian form no. 170 

 of 211 words. Collected in February, 1866, 

 presumably from the following persons, whose 

 names appear on the verso of the 9th leaf: 

 Graham Rogers, first chief, David Deshane, 

 second chief, Charles Bluejacket, Charles 

 Tacker, Mathias King, John Perry, delegates 

 from the Shawanee tribe of Indians of the 

 State of Kansas. 



A duplicate, or copy, accompanies the origi- 

 nal. 



George Gibbs, the son of Col. George Gibbs, 

 was born on the 17th of July, 1815, at Suns wick, 

 Long Island, near the village of Hallett's Cove, 

 now known as Astoria. At seventeen he was 

 taken to Europe, where he remained two years. 

 On his return from Europe he commenced the 

 reading of law, and in 1838 took his degree of 

 bachelor of law at Harvard University. In 

 1848 Mr. Gibbs "went overland from Saint 

 Louis to Oregon, and established himself at 

 Columbia. In 1854 he received the appoint- 

 ment of collector of the port of Astoria, which 

 he held during Mr. Fillmore's administration. 

 Later he removed from Oregon to Washington 

 Territory, and settled upon a ranch a few 

 miles from Fort Steilacoom. Here he had his 

 headquarters for several years, devoting him- 

 self to the study of the Indian languages, and 

 to the collection of vocabularies and traditions 

 of the northwestern tribes. During a great 

 part of the time he was attached to the United 

 States government commission in laying the 

 boundary, as the geologist or botanist of ,the 

 expedition. He was also attached as geologist 



