Plan for the investigation of American ethnology: to include the facts derived from other parts of the globe. And the eventual formation of a museum of antiquities and the peculiar fabrics of nations; and also the collection of a library of the philology of the world, manuscript and printed. Submitted to the Board of regents of the Smithsonian institution, at their first meeting, at Washington, in September, 1846
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864