James Pilling

James Pilling
Born16 November 1846 Edit this on Wikidata
Washington, D.C. Edit this on Wikidata
Died26 July 1895 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 48)
OccupationPhilologist Edit this on Wikidata

James Constantine Pilling (16 November 1846, in Washington, D.C. – 26 July 1895) was a Congressional stenographer-transcriptionist and a pioneering ethnologist chiefly known for compiling a series of extensive bibliographies of the cultures, mythologies and languages of the North and Central American aboriginal peoples. Beginning in 1875, when he joined the survey of the American West led by Maj. John Wesley Powell, and continuing through 1881, Pilling did extensive fieldwork and proofread Powell's Report on the lands of the arid region of the United States (1879).[1]

  1. ^ J. W. Powell, Report on the lands of the arid region of the United States, with a more detailed account of the lands of Utah, 2nd ed., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1879, 195 pp. (p. 9)