Science made rapid progress, and in its turn showed the broad and liberal influence of the great revolution.

In 1842 societies were founded in Paris and London to promote the study of ethnology.

Mr.Gallatin would not be behindhand in this important work for which America offered a virgin field.

Drawing about him a number of gentlemen of similar tastes with his own, he founded in New York, in 1842, the American Ethnological Society.

Among his associates were Dr.Robinson, the famous explorer of Palestine, Schoolcraft, Bartlett, and Professor Turner, noted for their researches in the history and languages of the Indian races.Messrs.