the famous anarchist's only speaking engagement at Philadelphia. Kropotkin had refused invitations from all of the city's elites.Letters, Brinton to Horace Traubel, April 26 and 27, 1896. Special Collections Dept., Temple University On the occasion of his memorial meeting on October 6, 1900, the keynote speaker Albert H. Smyth stated: "In Europe and America, he sought the society of anarchists and mingled sometimes with the malcontents of the world that he might appreciate their grievances, and weigh their propositions for reform and change." Works From 1868 to 1899, Brinton wrote many books, and a large number of pamphlets, brochures, addresses and magazine articles. His works include: [https://archive.org/details/americanheromyth00brin American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent. Library of Aboriginal American Literature. No. VIII Aboriginal American authors and their productions Notes on the Floridian Peninsula (1859) The Myths of the New World (1868), an attempt to analyse and correlate, scientifically, the mythology of the American Indians A Guide-Book of Florida and the South (1869) The Religious Sentiment: its Sources and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion (1876) American Hero Myths (1882) The Annals of the Cakchiquels (1885) (Exposé of the hoax grammar of the so-called Taensa language.) Ancient nahuatl poetry 1890 Essays of an Americanist (1890) Races and Peoples: lectures on the science of ethnography (1890); The American Race (1891) The Pursuit of Happiness (1893) Nagualism, A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History (1894) A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics, Publications of the University of Pennsylvania. Series in philology, literature and archaeology, vol. 3, no. 2 (1895) (also available at https://archive.org/details/b24873779) Religions of Primitive People'' (1897) In addition, he edited and published a Library of American Aboriginal Literature (8 vols. 1882–1890), a valuable contribution to the science of anthropology in America. Of the eight volumes; six were edited by Brinton himself, one by Horatio Hale and one by Albert Samuel Gatschet. His 1885 work is notable for its role in the Walam Olum controversy. References External links Entire work of Daniel Garrison Brinton Daniel Garrison Brinton Archival Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum 1837 births 1899 deaths 19th-century Mesoamericanists American anarchists American archaeologists American expatriates in France American expatriates in Germany American ethnologists American Mesoamericanists Historians of Mesoamerica Historians from Pennsylvania Linguists of Algic languages Linguists of Arawakan languages Mesoamerican anthropologists People from Chester County, Pennsylvania Physicians from Pennsylvania Proponents of scientific racism