Note 1875 — Chapter VI · (continued 3)

We know little of what Jefferson might have accomplished, for his manuscripts were burned in 1801 (Schoolcraft’s Ind. Tribes, ii. 356). As early as 1804 the U. S. War Department issued a list of words, for which its agents should get in different tribes the equivalent words. Gallatin used these results. Different lists of test words have been often used since. George Gibbs had a list. The Bureau of Ethnology has a list.