The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-08-06

ETY.. The most eminent scientists of Eng.
land, France and Germany, including
Professor Huxley, Sir Archibald Geikie
and Sir John Lubbock, have also been
asked TO be present.
The American Association Ruk the
Advancement Of Science has been la ex.
istenoe As years, and the researches Of ita
members and It's public annual dSlaber-
ations have beenof incalculsble beuszlt to.
the cause OF science. The presidents 0a the
association is Daniel Garrison Hrinton,
the eminent ethnclogist, who probably
knows as much as amy man living about
the division of mankind into races. &heis
origin, distribution and relationa and
the peculiarities which charactcriae
them. President Brinton was born In
Chester county, Pa, May 10, 1884, He
was graduated at Yale In 1858 and at
the jefferson Medical college In 1881.
After year Of travel In Europe he re-
turned 20 America and entered the Fed
eral army as acting assistant surgeon.
In 1858 he was commissioned surgeon
and served as surgeon in chief Of the
Second division, Eleventh corps. HasaW
about all that there was to soc a. the
horrors of war at Chancellorsville, Get
tysburg and other engagements, and In
October OF the same year was appointed
medical director Of his corps
AT the battle Of Gettysburg he re-
ceived a sunstroke and was disqualified
from service. He soon became superin-
tendent of hospitals at Quincy and
Springfield, Ills, and remained ON dnty
there until the close OF the war, when
he was brevetted lieutenant colonel and
discharged After the war he settled I'M
Philadelphia, became the editor OF q
medical and surgical publication and
has since been frequent contributor 10
the columns OF such Journals.
DIR. Brinton has for many years been
prominent as student Of and writer ON
American ethnology, and the subject
has fascinated him ever since he was d |
student in college. In 1884 he was ap-
pointed professor Of ethnoioey and ar- |
chs6logy IN tho Academy pf Natural
Sciences, Philadelphiay and for several
years he has been president oE the Nm
mismatic and Antiquarian society of |
the Quaker City. In 1855 he was elected
vice president Of the American Associa-
tion For the Advancement of Science,
to preside over the section devoeed 10 |
anthropology, and the same year had the |
honor Of being the first AmeriCan
awarded the medal Oh the Eocaeee Amer
icaine de France for his numerous eru-
dite works on American ethnoIogy.
He has established q library and pub
fishing house Of aboriginal American
literature for the purpose of placing
within the reach Of scholars anthenfio !
materials for the study Of the languages |
and culture Of the Indians OF America
Each work ID the production of . native |
mind and ii printed In the original Ian
guaga Dr. Brinton has also made yalus
able reports On his investigations az /
mounds, shell heaps, rock Inscriptions |
and other evidences Of the races that /
preceded the American IndianA ana has /
shsd much Light On these iSGSea sting /
mysteries of early life ON this colS Sinent |
The numerous books he has written On /
medical and chronological subjects make
quite library la themselves
u Ii believed that over 1. 600 dale
gates will attend the sessions OF the a. |
sociation in Brooklyn They Win And |
pleasure as well as profit awaiting them,
Cor they will be entertained by excur. |
sions 10 Long Branch, Cold Spring Har.
bor and West Point