Note 1885 — Chapter VI · (continued 3)

The languages covered are: Dakota, Chibcha, Nahuatl, Kechua, Quiché, Maya, Montagnais, Chippeway, Algonquin, Cri, Iroquois, Hidatsa, Chacta, Caraïbe, Kiriri, Guarani. Adam has been one of the leading spirits in the Congrès des Américanistes. There was published in 1882, as a part of the Bibliothèque linguistique Américaine, a Grammaire et Vocabulaire de la langue taensa, avec textes traduits et commentés par F. D. Haumonté, Parisot, L. Adam. It was printed from a manuscript said to have been discovered in 1872, in the library of Mons. Haumonté. Dr. Brinton, finding, as he claimed, that Adam had been imposed upon, printed in the American Antiquarian, March, 1885, “The Tænsa Grammar and Dictionary, a Deception Exposed,” the points of which were epitomized by Professor H. W. Haynes in the American Antiquarian Society Proceedings (April, 1885), and Adam answered in Le Tænsa, a-t-il été forgé de toutes pièces (Paris, 1885).