Brinton.] ^0^ [Sept. 18, 



Prof. E, D, Cope, Pliilaclelpliia ; Commissioner of Labor, 

 Washington, D. C; Oliio Archgeological and Historical Soci- 

 ety, Columbus ; Society of Natural History, Cincinnati, 0. 



The death of Prof. Gr. Brown Goode, Director of the U. S. 

 National Museum, Washington, D. C, September 6, 1896, set. 

 46, was announced. 



Dr. Brinton read a paper on the ' ' Vocabulary of the Noan- 

 ama Dialect of the Choco Stock." 



Dr. Horn spoke of the difficulties of reporting these unwrit- 

 ten dialects o^^ing to the absence of a standard of pronuncia- 

 tion. He also adverted to the evident use of the " r " sound, 

 which was absent in the Indian dialects of western America. 



Dr. Frazer suggested the use of the symbols made by the 

 phonographic stylus, as he had described them in a paper 

 read before this Society, April 5, 1878. 



Pending nominations 1332, 1334, 1357, 1358, 1359 and new 

 nominations 1360 and 1361 were read. 



The rough minutes were read and approved, and the Society 

 adjourned by the presiding member. 



Vocabulary of the Noanama Dialect of the Choco Stock. 



By Daniel G. Brinton, M.D. 



{Read before the American Philosophical Society, Sept. i8, i8g6). 



In the Proceedings of this Society for November last (Vol. xxxiv, 

 pp. 401, 402), I presented a short vocabulary of the Andagueda 

 dialect of the Choco stock, obtained by Mr. Henry Gregory 

 Granger on the upper waters of the Atrato river, Colombia, South 

 America. 



During the summer of the present year, Mr. Granger visited the 

 west coast of Colombia, and at the mouth of the river San Juan (N. 

 lat. 5°) met a tribe of about fifty Indians, who spoke an idiom, 

 said not to be understood by those of the interior or the other coast 

 tribes. They are still rather primitive in culture and have the 

 peculiarity of piercing their ears to form apertures about half an 

 inch in diameter, in which they insert bunches of sweet-smelling 

 herbs. 



