1897 



PRINCE — THE PASSAMAQUODDY WAMPUM RECORDS. 479 



The Chair appointed the following as the Committee: 

 Hon George F. Edmunds, William A. Ingham, Esq., William 

 P. Tatham, Esq., Samuel Dickson, Esq., and Richard L. 

 Ashhurst, Esq. 



Donations to the Cabinet and Library were announced, and 

 thanks were ordered for them. 



The death of Dr. George H. Horn, on November 24, 1897, 

 8et. 58, was announced. 



The following papers were read by title, as follows : 



" The Passamaq noddy Wampum Records," by J. Dyneley 

 Prince, Ph.D. 



" The Ethnic Affinities of the Guetares of Costa Rica," 

 by Daniel G. Brinton, M.D. 



" The Sources of Goethe's Printed Text: Hermann and 

 Dorothea," by Prof. W. T. Hewett. 



Mr. McKean read the reports of the Committee on the 

 Henry M. Phillips Prize Essay Fund and of the Trustees of 

 the Building Fund. 



Dr. Frazer made a communication, illustrated b}^ photo- 

 graphic views, on "The Ourals and the Caucasus." 



The annual reports of Treasurer and Finance Committee 

 were read. 



The rough minutes were read, and the Society was ad- 

 journed by the presiding officer. 



THE PASSAMAQUODDY WAMPUM RECORDS. 



BY J. DYNELEY PRINCE, PH.D. 



{Read Decemher 3, 1897.) 



The Passamaqiioddy Indians of Maine, who, together with the 

 Penobscots, now occupy Oldtown on the Penobscot river as their 

 headquarters, are members of the great Algonkin family which was 

 in former times the dominant native race from Nova Scotia to the 

 Carolinas. The language still in use among the Passamaquoddies ^ 



^The Indians call themselves Pestuma^atiek in their own idiom. 



