The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton

Philadelphia, May 24. Prof. Daniel G. Brinton, M.D., Professor of American Archaeology and Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, has presented his entire collection of books and manuscripts relating to aboriginal languages of North and South America. Dr. Brinton has long been one of the foremost authorities on these subjects, and his library of works regarding them is perhaps the most complete in existence.

The collection represents a work of accumulation of twenty-five years, and embraces about 2,000 volumes, in addition to nearly 200 volumes of bound and indexed pamphlets bearing on the ethnology of the American Indians. Many of the manuscripts are unique. A number of the printed volumes are rare or unique and of considerable bibliographical importance.

The collection of works on the hieroglyphic writings of the natives of this country embraces nearly every publication on the subject. The special feature of the library is that it covers the whole American field, North, Central, and South, and was formed for the special purpose of comparative study. The gift is valuable far beyond its relative size, and will place the University library in the front rank, with the library of Harvard University and the Congressional Library, in the Department of American Ethnology (New York Times, May 25, 1899.p.1)

The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton