Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. — Howard. 7 
reached the great basin in 1803 has caused some detraction 
from that claim. 
The memory of the subject of this brief memorial will live in 
the history of the West until time shall turn all things to 
eternity. 
LIST OF Schoolcraft's publications. 
Scenes and adventures amid the semi- Alpine country of the Ozark 
mountains of Missouri and Arkansas with a view of tlie lead mines of 
Missouri, New York, 1819; Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 
1 vol. 8vo, pp. 2.56. 1853. 
View of the lead mines of Missouri ; including observations on Mis- 
souri and Arkansas; New York, 1819, 8vo. 
Journal of a tour into the interior of Missouri and Arkansas, per- 
formed in the years 1818-19, map, London, 1821, 8vo, pp . 102. (In 
Phillips New voyages and Travels, vol. iv). 
Narrative journal of travels from Detroit, through the great lakes to 
the sources of the Mississippi river in 1820; Albany, 1821. 8vo. 
Remarks on the prints of human feet observed in the secondary 
limestone of the Mississippi valley. Am. Jour. Sci. vol. v, p. 223; 
Ibid, vol. XLV, p. 22. 
Remarkable fossil tree found about 50 miles southwest of lake 
Michigan by his excellency Gov. Lewis Cass and Mr. Henry R. School- 
craft in August, 1821, on the river Des Plaines in the N. E. angle of the 
state of Illinois — extracted from a paper presented by Mr. Schoolcraft 
to the American Geological Society. Am. Jour. Sci. vol. iv, p. 285, 
1822. 
Account of the native copper on the southern shore of lake Superior, 
with historical citations and miscellaneous remarks, in a report to the 
Department of War. Am. Jour. Sci. vol. v, (1822) p. 201. 
Notice of a recently discovered copper mine on lake Superior, with 
several other localities of minerals. Am. Jour. Sci. vol. vii, (1823) 
p. 43. 
Travels in the central portions of the Mississippi valley, (1821) ; 
New York, 1825, 8vo. 
On the existence of lunar tides in the waters of the great North 
American lakes. (Letter to major Henry Whiting). Am. Jour. Sci. 
vol. XX, (1831) p. 213.) 
Discourse delivered before the Historical Society of Michigan, 
Detroit. (Noticed in Am. Jour. Sci. vol. xx, 1831, p. 166. Another 
address on the condition of the North American Indians ; May, 1832, is 
noticed in vol. xxiv,p. 190). 
Narrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca 
lake, the actual source of this river, embracing an exploratory trip 
through the St. Croix and Burntwood (Brule) rivers in 1832, under the 
direction of Henry R. Schoolcraft. Harper Brothers, New York, pp. 
307, 8vo, 1833. (Besides the narrative this work embraces the follow- 
ing by Mr. Schoolcraft : Localities of minerals observed in 1831 and 
1832 in tlie northwest; Indian languages, part of a course of lectures 
delivered before the St. Mary'« committee of the Algic society). 
Discourse on the origin and character of the North American In- 
dians. Mich. Hist. Soc. Sketches, 18.34 ; small, 12nio, p. 51. 
Algic researches, comprising iiKjuiries respecting the mental char- 
acteristics of the North American Indians; Harper Brothers, New 
York, 2 vols. 12 mo. 
On the action of the North American lakes; (noticed in Am. Jour. 
Sci. vol. XXIV, 1842, p. 368 
