Wicker, Miss Julia Frances Ticonderoga. Willey, Rev. John H. 466 East i8th St., Brooklyn. Williams, Dr. Sherman Glens Falls. Williams, Charles H. 690 Delaware Ave., Buffalo. Willis, James D. 40 East 39th St., N. Y. Wilson. Henry Applegate 574 Madison St., Brooklyn. Wing, Asahel R. Fort Edward. Wright, Miss Abbie A. Sandy Hill. Woodruff, Hon. Timothy L. 8th Ave. and iSth St., Brooklyn. Woodard, Hon. John Appellate Division, Brooklyn. Worden, Edwin J. Lake George, Wvckoff, Alice Brooks Elmira.

The Secretary will thank members for corrections to this list.

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FOOTPRINTS OF THE RED MEN.

Indian Geographical Names IN THE VALLEY OF HUDSON'S RIVER, THE VALLEY OF THE MOHAWK, AND ON THE DELAWARE: THEIR LOCATION AND THE PROBABLE MEANING OF SOME OF THEM.

E. M. RUTTENBER, Author of " History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson'' s River."

*' Indian place-names are not proper names, that is unmeaning words, but significant appellatives each conveying a description of the locality to which it \it\ow%,%.''^--Trumbtill.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE

IRew IPcrft State t)i6toiicaI Besociation.

Copyrighted by the NEW YORK STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. 1906.

Primary Explanations.

The locatives of the Indian geographical names which have been handed down as tlie names of boundmarks or of places or tribes, are properly a subject of study on the part of all who would be familiar with the aboriginal geography of a district or a state. In many cases these names were quite as designative of geographical centers as are the names of the towns, villages and cities which have been substituted for them. In some cases tbey have been wisely retained, while the specific places to which they belonged have been lost. In this work special effort has been made, first, to ascertain the places to which the names belonged as given in official records, to ascertain the physical features of those places, and carry back the thought to the poetic period of our territorial history, " when the original drapery in which nature was enveloped under the dominion of the laws of vegetation, spread out in one vast, continuous interminable forest," broken here and there by the opened patches of cornlands and the wigwams and villages of the redmen ; secondly, to ascertain the meanings of the aboriginal names, recognizing fully that, as Dr.