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the Royal Library at Dresden/ and Dr. Cyrus Thomas, of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology;- and the definitive researches in the hieroglyphic writ- 

 ing and Maya chronology by Mr. J. T. Goodman, of Alameda, California,^ 

 and Mr. C. P. Bowditch, of Boston.^ These scholars have laid the broad 

 foundations of archseological research in Central America, and it is on their 

 work that succeeding generations of students must build. 



Maya Art has been studied by Dr. H. J. Spinden, of the American 

 JN'Iuseum of Natural History, whose researches have established the chrono- 

 logical sequence of Maya sculpture beyond all doubt. ^ The work of Mr. 

 Juan Martinez, of Merida, Yucatan, on post-Conquest Maya documents,' 

 also is entitled to special mention. Mr. Martinez is easily the foremost 

 authority on the Maya language and his studies have shed much light on the 

 subject of Maya mythology. The contributions of Mr. Thomas E. Gates, 

 of Point Loma, Cahfornia, on Maya manuscripts, are also worthy of notice.' 

 The writer's own researches have been concerned chiefly with Maya history, 

 chronology, and hieroglyphic writing.* 



'"Commentary on the Maya Manuscript in tlie Royal Public Library of Dresden," Dr. Ernst Forat- 

 mann, in Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaology and Ethnology, Harvard University, vol. 

 IV, No. 2, Cambridge, 1906, and other writings. 



'"A Study of the Manuscript Troano," Dr. Cyrus Thomas, Washington, 1882, and other writings. 



^"The Archaic Maya Inscriptions," J. T. Goodman, London, 1897, in Biologia Centrali Americana, 

 Appendix to section on Archaeology, and other writings. 



■■"Maya Numeration, Calendar, and Astronomy," C. P. Bowditch, Cambridge, 1910, and other 

 writings. 



^"A Study of Maya Art: Its Subject-matter and Historical Development," Dr. H. J. Spinden, in 

 Memoiis of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, vol. vi, 

 Cambridge, 1913. 



^" Los gi'andes ciclos de la historia maya segun el Manuscripto de Chumayel," Juan Martinez Hernandez, 

 Merida, 1910. " La Creacion del Mundo segun los m.ayas. Paginas ineditas del M.S.de Chumayel." Juan 

 Martinez Hern.andez, Merida, 1912. 



'"Commentary upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex," William E. Gates, Cambridge. 1910. Papers 

 of the Peabody Museum of American .\roha?ology and Ethnology, Harvard LTniversity, vol. vi. No. 1. 



*"A Group of Related Structures at Uxmal, Mexico," Sylvanus G. Morley, Papers of the School of 

 American Archaeology, No. 6. "The Inscriptions of Naranjo, Northern Guatemala," Sylvanus G. Morley, 

 Ibid., No. 9. "The Correlation of Maya and Christian Clironology," Sylvanus G. Morlej', Ibid., No. 11. 

 "The Historical Value of the Books of Cliilan Balam," Sylvanus G. Morley, Ibid., No. 18. "An Intro- 

 duction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphics," Sylvanus G. Morley, to be published as a Bulletin of 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution. 



