| | 1 | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | A Comparative Vocabulary of Indian Languages, 1798-1821
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Native American languages | | | | Dates: | 1798-1821 | | | | Extent: | 221 leaves | | | | Abstract: | This volume contains extracts of Barton's "New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America" (Philadelphia, 1797), with additions by Peter S. Du Ponceau, including a review of Barton's book in "Gottingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen," June 17, 1799. | | | | Source: | A Comparative Vocabulary of Indian Languages (497 B28) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
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