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mar and Dictionary of George Gibbs. Further contributions 

 to American linguistic science are the following : Indian 

 Karnes of Places on Long Island Derived from Esculent and 

 Medical Roots, J. Hammond Trumbull, Magazine of Amer- 

 ican History ; The Tonkawa Languages, Albert S. Gatschett, 

 American Philological Society (papers from the same author 

 will be found in the Magazine of American History, March, 

 1877, in Wheeler's Rep. for 1876, and in a pamphlet in Ger- 

 man upon the Idioms Spoken in the Southwest of the United 

 States) ; On the Utah Dialects, Edwin A. Barber, Hayden's 

 Bulletin, vol. iii., No. 3 ; Hidatsa Grammar and Vocabulary, 

 "Washington Matthews, Hayden's Miscellaneous Publications ; 

 The Red Man Gauged by his Speech, E. Jacker, Catholic lie- 

 view, April ; American Indian Philology and Hieroglyphics, 

 Congress of Americanists, and at the American Philological 

 Association, Baltimore, July 6. 



Middle and South America. 



"The Indigenous Lanomao-es of Mexico," Francisco Pirnen- 

 tel, Mexico, 3 vols.; The Language of Nahuatl, M. Lucien 

 Adam, Revue Linguist ique, Jan. ; The Tupi Language, P. Gaf- 

 farel, same number; The Use of Phonetic Characters by the 

 Peruvians, Gustav Bruehl, State Archa3ological Association, 

 Ohio. 



Europe. 



Transactions of the Philological Society, London, 1877, part 

 i., contains the President's address, and a review of the great 

 families of languages by specialists. In the Academy, Jan. 

 13, attention is called to a series of articles in the Ilermathena 

 on the Ogham alphabet. The following papers may be ex- 

 amined with profit : On the English Karnes of Wild Flowers 

 and Plants, Rev. W. Tuckwell, Nature, Aug. 30 ; Marks Found 

 in the Chalk of Cissbury, Park Harrison, Journal of the An- 

 thropological Institute, Jan. ; The Etruscan Language, Rev. 

 I. Taylor, Journal of the Victoria Institute, vol. x., and in 

 Fraser^s Magazine, March ; On the Name Mediterranean, 

 F. J. Bell, Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Jan. 

 17 ; Das Problem iiber den Ursprung der Sprache, O. Caspari, 

 Ausland, Kos. 47, 48, 49. The annual meeting of German 

 Philologists and Teachers, Wiesbaden, Sept. 26-28. 



