[1563] Rep. of Peabody Museum, vol. iv. p. 45.
[1564] “Early Man in the Delaware Valley,” in the Proc. Boston Soc. of Nat. Hist., vol. xxiv.
[1565] Early Man in Britain, p. 173.
[1566] Waitz, Introd. to Anthropology, Eng. trans., p. 255, points out the dangers of over-confidence in this research. Cf. also J. H. McCulloh’s Researches (1829).
The best indications of the sources as respects the origin of the Americans can be found in Haven’s Archæology of the United States (Smithsonian Contributions, vii., 1856); Bancroft’s foot-notes to his Nat. Races, v. ch. 1; Short, ch. 3, on the diversity of opinions; Poole’s Index, p. 637, and Supplement, p. 274. Cf. Drake’s Book of the Indians, ch. 2.
Without anticipating the characterization and mention of the essential books later to be indicated, some miscellaneous references may be added without much attempt at classifying them.
Among English writers: Hyde Clarke’s Researches on prehistoric and protohistoric comparative philology, mythology, and archæology in connection with the origin of culture in America (London, 1875). Robert Knox’s Races of Men (London, 1862); J. Kennedy in his Probable origin of the American Indians (London, 1854), and in his Essays, ethnological and linguistic (London, 1861); J. C. Beltrami’s Pilgrimage in Europe and America (London, 1828); C. H. Smith in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, xxxviii. 1.
Some French authorities: Nadaillac, Les premiers hommes, ii. 93, and his L’Amérique préhistorique, ch. 10, and to the English translation W. H. Dall adds a chapter on this subject; Brasseur de Bourbourg’s introduction to his Popul Vuh (section 4); Dabry de Thiersant’s De l’origine des indiens du nouveau monde et de leur civilisation (Paris, 1883); M. A. Baguet’s “Les races primitives des deux Amériques” in Bull. de la Soc. de Géog. d’Anvers, viii. 440; Domenech in Revue Contemporaine, 1st ser., xxxiii. 283; xxxiv. 5, 284; 2d ser., iv.; Baron de Bretton’s Origines des peuples de l’Amérique, in the Nancy Compte-rendu, Congrès des Américanistes, i. 439.
Among German writers perhaps the most weighty are Theodor Waitz in his Anthropologie der Naturvölker (1862-66), and Carl Vogt’s Vorlesungen über den Menschen, translated as Lectures on Man (1864).
American writers: Drake’s Book of the Indians, ch. 1, 2; Doddridge’s Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of Virginia and Penna., ch. 3; Geo. Catlin’s Life amongst the Indians (1861), and his Last Rambles (1867), with extracts in Smithsonian Ann. Rept., 1885, iii. 749; Isaac McCoy’s Hist. of Baptist Indian Missions (Washington, 1840); Short’s No. Amer. of Antiq., ch. 4, 11; B. H. Coate’s Annual Discourse before the Penna. Hist. Soc. (Philad., 1834), reviewing the various theories; also in their Memoirs, iii. part 2; John Y. Smith in Wisconsin Hist. Soc. Ann. Rep., iv. 117; Dennie’s Portfolio, xiii. 231, 519; xiv. 7; A. R. Grote in Amer. Naturalist, xi. 221 (April, 1877); C. C. Abbott in Ibid. x. 65.