cliv GENERAL SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC AND 



vor. The opinion of M. Dally, that in studying American 

 primitive history the purest scientific processes should be 

 employed, met with general approval. 



M. le Baron de Bretton, delegate of the King of Denmark, 

 presented an important paper on the discoveries of the North- 

 men. 



In the second meeting, the following gentlemen partic- 

 ipated : 



Dr. Paul Broca. On the deformed skulls of the Chibchas 

 and other tribes. 



M. L. Petitot. On the Southern origin of the Esquimaux. 



M. Mader de Montjau. On the indigenes of Hayti. 



M. Jules Ballet, of Guadaloupe. On the Caribs of the An- 

 tilles. 



In the third meeting, papers were read by : 



M. Pacheco Zigarro, of Cuzco. On the Quichua. 



M. Leon de Rosny. On the systems of deciphering the 

 Maya. 



M. Julien Adam, for M. Julien Vinson. On the pretended 

 analogy between the New World tongues and the Basque 

 language. 



In the fourth meeting the following gentlemen took part : 



M. Oscar Comettant. Music in America before Columbus. 

 "The Peruvian flute is sad, timid, and prophetic; and, after 

 having presided over the magnificent fetes of the Incas, serves 

 to console their descendants in degradation and slavery." 



M.Waldemar Schmidt. On sketching: and other art mani- 

 festations among native Greenlanders. 



The executor of the will of Mr. George Latimer has sent 

 from Porto Rico to the Smithsonian Institution the mao-nifi- 

 cent prehistoric collection of that gentleman, embracing 36 

 sacrificial yokes (?), a large number of mammiform stones of 

 various patterns, a beautiful collection of celts, besides a va- 

 riety of other materials. 



In Scribner' , s Monthly for August is an illustrated article 

 on the "Stone Age of the Antilles." 



Mr. Herbert Spencer's " Descriptive Sociology," Div. II., 

 Pt. I., B, is devoted to Mexicans, Central Americans, Chib- 

 chas, and Peruvians. 



Vol. I. of Pinart's "Bibliotheque de Linguistique et d'Eth- 

 nographie Amcricaines," is devoted to the " Lingua Chia- 

 paneca." 



