American bibliographer, born in Washington, DC, on the 16th of November 1846; educated at Gonzaga College, Washington; until 1875 he was engaged in clerical work connected with Congressional committees, and in the year named joined the Rocky Mountain survey under Major J. W. Powell; became chief clerk of the United States geological survey in 1880, and in 1891 ethnologist to the bureau of ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution. His labors were directed in bibliographical and ethnological lines, his publications including Catalogue of Linguistic Manuscripts in the Bureau of Ethnology (1881); Proof-Sheets of the Bibliography of the Languages of the North American Indians (1885); Bibliography of the Eskimo Language (1887); Bibliography of the Siouan Languages (1887); Bibliography of the Iroquoian Languages (1889); Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages (1891); Bibliography of the Athabascan Languages (1892); Bibliography of the Chinookan Languages (1893); Bibliography of the Salishan Languages (1893); Bibliography of the Wakashan Languages (1894). He died in Olney, MD, on the 26th of July 1895.
