Stowell.] " [Nov. 5, 



right. He was led into what I think was another error by the 

 disposition of the letters in tlie MS. As the Madrid edition 

 gives a photo-lithograph of the two pages of the original text 

 containing the alphabet and its explanation, we are in a position 

 to examine it satisfactorily. The figures are arranged in three 

 parallel lines across the page, and the two figures for u, stand, 

 the first at the end of one line, the second at the beginning of 

 the next. From their evident connection with the sign for the 

 sky at night, I am of opinion that they belong together as mem- 

 bers of the same sign. Or did either member of the pictographic 

 composite serve as indicating its phonetic value ? 

 • The designs of buildings as given by Brasseur, pp. 328, 332, 

 342, are much neater and more regular than in the original, 

 where they are simply out-lined with a pen neither steady nor 

 skillful. The disposition of the parts is, however, the same in 

 both. 



From these remarks it will be seen that Don Juan de Dtos de 

 la Rada y Delgado has laid students of Maya culture under posi- 

 tive obligations by this new and complete edition of Landa's 

 most important work, and it should find a place in those public 

 and private libraries which aim to have at all a complete list of 

 consulting Americana. 



THE FACIAL NERVE IN THE DOMESTIC CAT. 



BY T. B. STOWELL, PH.D. 



(Bead before the Americaii Philosophical Society, November 5, 1S86.) 

 Introduction. 



The embarrassment of tlie student of comparative anatomy will be 

 greatly relieved, and bis progress will be proportionately facilitated, if he 

 has access to a complete description of the structural characters of a 

 typical form. The anatomy of the cat furnishes a desirable and practical 

 standard for comparison — at least for the Mammalia. Special reasons for 

 accepting and adopting this standard have been presented elsewhere. 

 (Anatomical Teclinology, 34, p. 55.) 



The osteology and the myology bave already been described (34, B.C.). 

 The neurology lias been given only in part ; the anatomy of the brain has 

 been publisbed by Wilder in the Anatomical Technology (34), and in 

 numerous papers by the same author before scieutiflc bodies. (For the 

 bibliography see Auatomical Technology.) 



