MAK U 1890 



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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



HELD AT PniLADELPni^ FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XXXVIT. December, 1898. K^o. 158. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Stated Meeting, Octoher 7, 1898 175 



The Linguistic Cartography of the Chaco Region. Bj' 



Daniel G. Brinton, M.D. (with one plate) 178 



Shakespeare's Pericles and Apollonius of Tyre. By 



Albert H. Smyth (with one plate and two illustrations). 206 



On the Quaternion Group. By G. A. Miller 312 



Stated Meeting, October 21, 1898 319 



On two Unclassified Recent Vocabularies from South 



America. By Daniel G. Brinton, M.D 321 



Stated Meeting, November 4, 1898 324 



Stated Meeting, November 18, 1898 327 



Divisions of Queensland Aborigines. By R. H, Mathews 



(with one illustration) 327 



Adjourned Meeting, November 25^ 1898 336 



Stated Meeting, December 2, 1898 337 



Stated Meeting, December 16, 1898 337 



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