16th.  Received a copy of my article on Indian languages.

17th.  The Saginaws, by the cession of the 14th of January, agreed to leave Michigan, and accept a location elsewhere; and they were now urged to send delegates to the head waters of the Osage River, where they can be provided with fine lands, and placed in juxtaposition to cognate tribes.

29th.  Received a letter from the editor of the “Knickerbocker.” [79]

[Footnote 79:  Birchen Canoe:  Song of the Ship.]

May 18th.  Received notice of my election as one of the vice presidents of the American Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, at New York.

23d.  William Ward, Esq., of the War Office, Washington, D.C., writes:  “I have received two communications from Dr. Warren, of Boston, on the subject of a collection of crania and bones of the aborigines.  He is desirous of procuring specimens from the different tribes, and from the mounds in the different sections of the country.

“Trusting, in a great measure, to your readiness to co-operate in every effort to advance the cause of science, I have promised him to use the means my connection with the office might give me to forward his views.  His high reputation must be known to you, and I am sure you will aid him to complete a collection which, I understand, he has been occupied many years in making.

“I gather from his letters, that he wishes to procure a few complete skeletons, and a number of crania, and that it will be desirable to have as much as possible of the history of each head.”

June 4th.  Michilimackinack.  Received a copy of Bush’s Grammar of the Hebrew Language, and commenced comparing the Indian tongues with it.  This language has twenty-two letters.  In order to impress the elements upon my own mind, as well as improve theirs, I commenced teaching my children the language, just keeping ahead of them, and hearing their recitations every morning.

26th.  Receive a letter of introduction from Governor Mason, by Mr. Massingberd, of England, an intelligent and estimable traveler in America.

27th.  Dr. Edward Spring, son of the Rev. Gardiner Spring, of New York, visits the island with the view of a temporary practice.

July 1st.  A copy of Stuart’s Hebrew Grammar reached me this morning.  I have a special motive in making myself acquainted with this ancient, and, as I find, simple tongue.  The course of my investigation of the Algonquin language, has shown me the want of the means of enlarged comparison, which I could not institute without it.