Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2 volume set

American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Robert T. Paine; J. Ingersoll Bowditch; John Pickering; Sebastian Rasles; Asa Gray; George P. Bond; Augustus Fendler

Cambridge [Mass.] : Charles Folsom, Metcalf & Co., 1833-46.

Two quarto volumes. New series, 1833-1846. Rebound in modern green cloth. Perforated library stamp on titles. Scattered foxing. Hand colored map of Nova Scotia and colored lithographs to rear of volume I. Foldout charts in Volume II are facsimiles on modern paper. Volume I contains Father Sebastian Rasles' Dictionary of the Abnaki Language. Rale had been a French missionary who had encourage native resistance to Yankee settlement. Abenaki is a now endangered Algonquian language which the Eastern dialects is spoken by the Micmac, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot Indians of Maine, New England and Quebec.  Pilling 3196. 

Contents of Vol. 1:A Discourse in Commemoration of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson;  Remarks on Longevity and the Expectation of Life in the United States, Relating More Particularly to the State of New Hampshire, with Some Comparative Views in Relation to Foreign Countries; A Table of the Longitude and Altitude; Tables of the Present Value of a Life-Annuity at Any Age, According to Dr. Wigglesworth's Bill of Mortality; Occultations and Eclipses, Observed at Dorchester, Massachusetts;  Observations on the Comparative Rates of Marine Chronometers;  Remarks and Inquiries concerning the Birds of Massachusetts;  A Meteorological Journal from the Year 1786 to the Year 1829;  Remarks on the Mineralogy and Geology of Nova Scotia;  Table Showing the Present Value of the Right of Dower of a Married Woman in Any Real Estate, Provided She Survives Her Husband;  Description of a New Stand for a Reflecting Telescope;  Latitudes and Longitudes of Several Places in the United States, as Determined by Observation; Tables Exhibiting the Number of White Persons in the United States, at Every Age, Deduced from the Last Census;  Description of a Machine, Called a Gypsey, for Spinning Hemp and Flax; A Dictionary of the Abnaki Language, in North America. With an Introductory Memoir and Notes. 

Vol. 2:  Plantae Fendlerianae Novi-Mexicanae: An Account of a Collection of Plants Made Chiefly in the Vicinity of Santa Fe, New Mexico;  A Memoir upon the Geological Action of the Tidal and Other Currents of the Ocean;  History and Transformations of Corydalus cornutus;  Internal Anatomy of Corydalus cornutus in Its Three Stages of Existence;  Contributions to the Bryology and Hepaticology of North America;  Description of the Observatory at Cambridge, Massachusetts;  On Some Applications of the Method of Mechanical Quadratures;  Illustrations of Fossil Footprints of the Valley of the Connecticut.