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1881 · ref. 61654 — 1881. Annual Report 1 of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880. - Ed. Dir. J.W. Powell. - Washington Goverment Printing Office 1881 4° XXIII 603 pp. 346 Abb. u. Taf. 1 Karte orig. Leinenband. First Edition! Content of the Accompanying papers: Powell J.W.: On the Evolution of Language. Powell J.W.: Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians. Powell J.W.: Wyandot Government. Powell J.W.: On Limitations to the use of some Anthropologic Data. Yarrow H.C.: A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians. Holden E.S.: Studies in Central American Picture Writing. Royce C.C.: Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States. Mallery Garrick: Sign Language Among North American Indians. Pilling C.C.: Catalogue on Linguistic Manuscripts in the Library of the Bureau of Ethnology. Illustrations of the Method of Recording Indian Languages. From the Manuscripts of Messers. J.O. Dorsey A.S. Gatschet and S.R. Riggs. First Edition! Content of the Accompanying papers: Powell J.W.: Indian LinguisticPwell J.W.: Indian Linguistic of America North of Mexico. Hoffman W.J.: The Mide Wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa. Mooney James: The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees. John Wesley Powell 1834-1902 U.S. soldier geologist explorer of the American West professor at Illinois Wesleyan University and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers including the first official U.S. government-sponsored passage through the Grand Canyon. Powell served as second director of the U.S. Geological Survey 1881-1894 and proposed for development of the arid West policies that were prescient for his accurate evaluation of conditions. He became the first director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution during his service as director of the U.S. Geological Survey where he supported linguistic and sociological research and publications. "Powell became the director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution in 1879 and remained so until his death. Under his leadership the Smithsonian published an influential classification of North American Indian languages." wiki unknown