[48] Verrazano, p. 4.
[49] In his Cosmos Humboldt gives results, which he says are reached in his unpublished sixth volume of the Examen critique.
[50] The Humboldt Library was burned in London in June, 1865. Nearly all of the catalogues were destroyed at the same time; but a few large paper copies were saved, which, being perfected with a new title (London, 1878), have since been offered by Stevens for sale. Portions of the introduction to it are also used in an article by Stevens on Humboldt, in the Journal of Sciences and Arts January, 1870. Various of Humboldt’s manuscripts on American matters are advertised in Stargardt’s Amerika und Orient, no. 135, p. 3 (Berlin, 1881).
[51] Cf. Historical Magazine, vol. ix. no. 335; Magazine of American History, vol. ii. pp. 193, 221, 565; Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., April, 1868. Colonel Force died in January, 1868.
[52] Mr. Sparks died March 14, 1866. Tributes were paid to his memory by distinguished associates in the Massachusetts Historical Society (Proceedings, ix. 157), and Dr. George E. Ellis reported to them a full and appreciative memoir (Proceedings, x. 211). Cf. also Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., March, 1866; Historical Magazine, May, 1866; Brantz Mayer before the Maryland Historical Society, 1867, etc.
[53] Cf. Historical Magazine, vol. ix. p. 137.
[54] The principal interpreter of the Indian languages of the temperate parts of North America has been Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull, of Hartford, for whose labor in the bibliography of the subject see a chapter in vol i. of the Memorial History of Boston. There is also a collection edited by him, of books in and upon the Indian languages, in the Brinley Catalogue, iii. 123-145. He gave in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, and also separately in 1874, a list of books in the Indian languages, printed at Cambridge and Boston, 1653-1721 (Field, Indian Bibliography, no. 1,571). Cf. also Ludewig’s Literature of American Aboriginal Languages, mentioned on an earlier page. It was edited and corrected by William W. Turner. (Cf. Pinart-Brasseur Catalogue, no. 565; Field, Indian Bibliography, no. 959).
Icazbalceta published in 1866, at Mexico, a list of the writers on the languages of America; and Romero made a similar enumeration of those of Mexico, in 1862, in the Boletin de la Sociedad Mexicana de Geografia, vol. viii. Dr. Daniel G. Brinton has made a good introduction to the literary history of the native Americans in his Aboriginal American Authors, published by him at Philadelphia in 1883. For his own linguistic contributions, see Field, Indian Bibliography, no. 187, etc. One of the earliest enumerations of linguistic titles can be picked out of the list which Boturini Benaduci, in 1746, appended to his Idea de una nueva historia general de la America septentrional.
The most extensive enumeration of the literature of all the North American tongues is doubtless to be the Bibliography of North American Linguistics, which is preparing by Mr. James C. Pilling of the Bureau of Ethnology in Washington, and which will be published in due time by that bureau. A preliminary issue (100 copies) for corrections is called Proof-sheets of a Bibliography of the Indian Languages of North America (pp. xl, 1135).
The Bibliotheca Americana of Leclerc (Paris, 1879) affords many titles to which a preliminary “Table des Divisions” affords an index, and most of them are grouped under the heading “Linguistique,” p. 537, etc. The third volume of H. H. Bancroft’s Native Races, particularly in its notes, is a necessary aid in this study; and a convenient summary of the whole subject will be found in chapter x. of John T. Short’s North Americans of Antiquity. J. C. E. Buschmann has been an ardent laborer in this field; the bibliographies give his printed works (Field’s Indian Bibliography, p. 208, etc.), and Stargardt’s Catalogue (no. 135, p. 6) shows some of his manuscripts. The Comte Hyacinthe de Charencey has for some years, from time to time, printed various minor monographs on these subjects; and in 1883 he collected his views in a volume of Mélanges de philologie et de paléographie Américaines.