Review article
Recent studies of American Linguistics Science Encounters the Indian, 1820–1880. By Robert E. Bieder.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. 290, xiii pp.
, Daniel Garrison Brinton. By Regna D. Darnell.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Anthropology Publication 3, 1987. 194 pp.
, The Politics of Linguistics. By Frederick J. Newmeyer.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. 171 pp.
andNotes on the Development of the Linguistic Society of America, 1924-1950. By Martin Joos.
Ithaca, NY: Linguistica, 1986. 170 pp.

Stephen O. Murray
Instituto Obregón, San Francisco
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