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From 1827 until his death Gallatin was a private citizen. He was president of the National Bank (later the Gallatin Bank) in New York from 1831 to 1839. He took a lively interest in politics, banking, and education, wrote prolifically on those subjects, and was a co-founder of [[New York University]], which named its undergraduate college after him. His last great endeavor was founding the American science of ethnology, with his studies of the languages of the Native Americans; he has been called "the father of American ethnology."  Founder of the American Ethnological Society in 1842, Gallatin underwrote most of the cost of its two volumes of ''Transactions'', and wrote for them "Notes on the Semicivilized Nations of Mexico, Yucatan and Central America"<ref>Albert Gallatin, "Notes on the semi-civilized nations of Mexico, Yucatan, and Central America," ''Transactions American Ethnological Society,'' Vol. I (1945) </ref> and an introduction to "Hale's Indians of North-West America and Vocabularies of North America."<ref>Albert Gallatin, "Hale's Indians of north-west America, and vocabularies of North America: with an introduction," ''Transactions American Ethnological Society,'' Vol. II (1848)</ref>

From 1827 until his death Gallatin was a private citizen. He was president of the National Bank (later the Gallatin Bank) in New York from 1831 to 1839. He took a lively interest in politics, banking, and education, wrote prolifically on those subjects, and was a co-founder of [[New York University]], which named its undergraduate college after him. His last great endeavor was founding the American science of ethnology, with his studies of the languages of the Native Americans; he has been called "the father of American ethnology."  Founder of the American Ethnological Society in 1842, Gallatin underwrote most of the cost of its two volumes of ''Transactions'', and wrote for them "Notes on the Semicivilized Nations of Mexico, Yucatan and Central America"<ref>Albert Gallatin, "Notes on the semi-civilized nations of Mexico, Yucatan, and Central America," ''Transactions American Ethnological Society,'' Vol. I (1945) </ref> and an introduction to "Hale's Indians of North-West America and Vocabularies of North America."<ref>Albert Gallatin, "Hale's Indians of north-west America, and vocabularies of North America: with an introduction," ''Transactions American Ethnological Society,'' Vol. II (1848)</ref>

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==Bibliography==

==Bibliography==

* Henry Adams, ''Life of Albert Gallatin'' (1879) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=91316346 online edition], by a leading conservative historian

* Henry Adams, ''Life of Albert Gallatin'' (1879) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=91316346 online edition], by a leading conservative historian