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to take an interest in the customs of the Indian tribes with which he came in
contact. He was especially struck with the extent of their sign language and
pictographs, and, following up this particular subject of research during his sub
sequent connection with the Bureau of Ethnology, he brought out from time to
time reports of the progress of his work. He made many personal investigations,
and an extensive correspondence furnished him with an immense collection of date
and drawings. The result of these researches was embodied in the work “Picture
writing of the American Indians,“ which appeared in the Tenth Annual Report of
the Bureau of Ethnology. It consists of 822 pages of text, in folio shape, with
1,290 illustrations. Colonel Mallery had the satisfaction of seeing this monument
of his industry and ingenious research published in 1894, but a philosophical sum
mary of the results of this vast accumulation of facts upon which he had entered
was left uncompleted at his death.
In addition to his ethnological work, Colonel Mallery was the author of
many addresses and essays, all characterized by a philosophical vein of thought
and much critical acumen. He was known to his intimate friends as a man of
large scholarly attainments, and who had a generous acquaintance with the
literature of his own and other tongues. To those friends he was greatly endeared
by his genial manner, kindness of heart, and high bred courtesy. He was a graceful
writer, with the clearness and simplicity of style which belongs to the well-read
man. This was the result partly of early education, and perhaps of inherent
good taste, but he gave much study to the subject of style in composition. Its
application to scientific writings was the theme of his address before the Philo
sophical Society on retiring from its presidency.
Colonel Mallery was one of the founders of the Anthropological Society of
Washington, its president, and for many years an active and zealous member of
its Council. In the Philosophical Society, the parent of all the scientific societies
now existing in this city, he was an efficient member and its president in 1888.
He will he long remembered with affection by his many friends, and his
scientific work is original and of permanent value.
Washington. Robert Fletcher.
Einer der ersten, die sich „Am Urquell“ als Mitarbeiter eingefunden, war
der greise GL A. B. Schierenberg, der am 21. Oktober 1894 im Alter von 86 Jahren
7 Monaten und 3 Tagen zu Luzern verschied. Geboren wurde er am 18. März
1808 zu Horn im Lippischen. Horn und Umgehung waren für seine literarische
Tätigkeit Ausgang- und Mittelpunkt. Er schrieb viel, niemals ohne Geist und Be
geisterung, über archaeologische und germanisch-mythologische Streitfragen. Er
liebte den Kampf, vertrug aber schwer Widerspruch. H. Jellinghaus widmete
ihm in der „Lippischen Landes-Zeitung“ Kr. 287 und 288 unterm Strich einen
liebevollen Nachruf, worin er auch die Hauptschriften des Verewigten aufzählt und
würdigt. „Mit einer seltenen Regsamkeit des Geistes, die ihn bis in sein höchstes
Greisenalter nicht verliess und die auf allen Gebieten des öffentlichen und privaten
Lebens sich zeigte, verband der Entschlafene rastlose Energie, einen hohen und
edlen Sinn für alles Schöne und Gute, eine glühende Liebe zum Vaterlande und
zur engeren Heimat.“ K.
r ) Diesen Nachruf übersandte uns für den „Urquell“ Herr Frank Baker,
Red. des „American Anthropologist“; im Jännerheft dieser Zeitschrift steht der
Nachruf auf Seite 79 f. Hier sind die Schicksale des tapferen Soldaten Mallery
auch gewürdigt, indess ausführlicher in der Einleitung zur deutschen Ausgabe von
M.’s „Israeliten und Indianer,“ Leipzig 1891.
Herausgeber: Dr. Friedrich S. Krauss, Wien VII/2. Neustiftgasse 12.
Verwaltung in Lunden in Holstein.
Druck von Diedr. Soltau in Norden.