8 The American Geologist Jau. i890 
Observations respecting the Grave Creek mound in M-^estern Virginia. 
Am. Eth. Soc. Trans, vol. i, p. 367, 1845. 
Oneota ; characteristics of the red race of America ; New York and 
London, 1845, 8vo. 
Incentives to tlie study of the ancient period of American history. 
Address before the New York Historical Society, 17 Nov. 1846. N. Y. 
Hist. Soc. Proc. 1846. 
Notes on the Iroquois, Albany, 1847, Svo, pp. 498. 
The Indian in his wigwam, Buffalo and' Auburn, 1848, Svo. 
Personal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian 
tribes on the American frontiers, 1812-1842; Lippincott, Philadelphia, 
1851. [Portrait of the author]. 
Summary narrative of an exploratory expedition to the sources of 
the Mississippi river in 1820, resumed and completed by the dii^covery 
of its origin in Itasca lake in 1832, Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo 
& Co., 1854. (Besides the narrative the following of Mr. Schoolcraft's 
papers are included in the appendix : Report on the copper mines of 
lake Superior; Observations on the mineralogy and geology of the 
country embracing the sources of the Mississippi river and the great 
lake basins ; Report on the value and extent of the mineral lands of 
lake Superior, in reply to a resolution of the United States congress ; 
Rapid glances at the geology of western New York beyond the Rome 
summit, in 1^20; A memoir on the geological position of a fossil tree 
in the secondary rocks of Illinois, 1822 ; A letter embracing notices of 
the zoology of the northwest, addressed to Dr. Mitchell on the return 
of the expedition; Memoranda of climate, phenomena, and the distri- 
bution of solar heat, in 1820 ; Limits and range of the Cervus sylvestris 
in the northwestern parts of the United States ; Remarks on the occur- 
rence of native silver and ores of silver in the stratification of the 
basins of lakes Huron and Superior; A general summary of the 
localities of minerals observed in the northwest ; Geological outlines 
of the valley of the Takwymenon, in the basin of lake Superior ; Sug- 
gestions respecting the geological epoch of the deposit of the red sand- 
stones of tin; St. Mary's falls, of Michigan). 
A curt history of the United States (In the Hebraic manner). 
Knickerbocker Gallery, 1855. Has a portrait of Schoolcraft. 
Archives of aboriginal knowledge ; original papers laid before con- 
gress respecting the history, antiquities, language, etc., of the Indian 
tribes of the United States. The title of this work as published (2nd 
edition) by Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia, is as follows: 
Information respecting the history, condition and prospects of the 
Indian tribes of the United States, collected and prepared under the 
direction of the bureau of Indian affairs, per act of Congress of March 
3rd, 1847, by Henry R. Schoolcraft, LL.U. Illustrated by S. Eastman, 
captain U. S. army, 6 vols. 4to, 1852-1855. Volume vi has a portrait 
of the author as frontispiece. The second edition was much corrected 
and improved. 
Discovery of a coal basin on the western borders of the Lake of 
the Woods, Am. Jour. Sci. (2) vol. xix, (1855) p. 232. 
Memoir on the history and physical geography of Minnesota, Minne- 
sota Historical Collections, vol. i, ji. 108. 
Myth of Hiawatha and other oral legends mythologic and allegoric, 
of the North American Indians, 12mo, 1856, Philadelphia, Lippincott, 
(and London). 
In 1844 Mr. Schoolcraft made a report to the New York Historical 
Society on the aboriginal names and geographical terminology of the 
state of New York. The next year he read a paper before the same 
society entitled "Historical considerations on the siege and defence of 
fort Stanwix in 1777." He also submitted to the Smithsonian Insti- 
