BRINTON, DANIEL GARRISON Ameri can archaeologist and ethnologist, was born at Thornbury, Pa., on May 13, 183 7. He graduated at Yale in 1858, studied for two years in the Jefferson Medical college, and for one year in Paris and Heidelberg. From 1862 to 1865, during the Civil War in America, he was a surgeon in the Union army, acting for one year, 5864-65, as surgeon in charge of the U.S. army general hospital at Quincy, Ill. After the war he practised medicine at Westchester, Pa., for several years ; was the editor of a weekly periodical, the Medical and Surgical Reporter, in Philadelphia, from 1874 to 1887 ; became professor of ethnology and archaeology in the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia in 1884, and was professor of American linguistics and archaeology in the University of Pennsylvania from 1886 until his death at Philadelphia on July 31, 1899. He was president at different times of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, of the American Folk Lore Society and of the American Association for the Advance ment of Science.
His principal works are:—The Myths of the New World (1868), the first attempt to analyse and correlate, according to true scientific principles, mythology of the American Indians; The Religious Sentiment: Its Sources and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion (1876) ; American Hero Myths (1882) ; Essays of an Americanist (189o) ; Races and Peoples (189o) ; The American Race (1891) ; The Pursuit of Happiness (1893) ; and Religions of Primitive People (1897) . In addition, he edited and published a Library of American Aboriginal Literature (8 vols., 1882-9o) . See "The Brinton Memorial Meeting," American Philos. Society Proceed ings (vol. I, p. 210, 1900), which contains a complete bibliography.