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the oldest was an old lady of nearly 80, whose recollections extend to 

 1850. All three remember distinctly when the dense tropical forest, 

 described by Stephens in 1839, still filled the entire valley, and when the 

 modern village, now numbering a thousand souls, was composed of 

 only three houses in small clearings in the forest. The information 

 given by these people has proved of great help in checking up the 

 original provenance of the six monuments mentioned. 



Before leaving, Mr. Morley installed a small local museum in the 

 cabildo, composed of the fragmentary monuments he has been collect- 

 ing from the different houses and patios of the village during the past 

 five years. The material left in the new museum comprises the fol- 

 lowing : 



No. 1. Stela 7, two large pieces. No. 7. Stela 25, two small pieces. 



No. 2. Stela 15, two large pieces and one No. 8. Fragment E', one small piece. 



small piece. No. 9. Fragment Y', one small piece. 



No. 3. Stela 22, one medium piece. No. 10. Fragment Z', one small piece. 



No. 4. Stela 21, one small piece. No. 11. Altar S, complete in one piece. 



No. 5. Stela 20, three pieces — one large, Nos. 12-24. Fragments V, thirteen small 



the other two medium. pieces of archaic steliB. 



No. 6. Stela 24, one large piece. 



The discovery of the meaning of the "winged-Cauac " sign as a 

 variant for the tun-sign, announced in Year Book 17 (see p. 272) is 

 already fulfilling the anticipations there expressed as to its importance 

 in the study of Maya chronology. By means of this sign, it has recently 

 been possible to date a beautifully sculptured peccary skull taken from 

 Tomb 1 at Copan by the First Peabody Museum Expedition in 1892, 

 the inscription and date of which, although unusually well preserved, 

 had long baffled decipherment. By the identification of this new 

 variant for the tun-sign, it is now possible to date the text in question 

 as 9.7.8.0.0 1 Ahau 3 Ceh. This latter is the first contemporaneous 

 date in the Corpus Inscriptionum Mayarum which has yet been 

 found, that may be referred to the katun-ending in 9.8.0.0.0, and fills 

 a previous lacuna in the chronological record at Copan. It is con- 

 fidently anticipated that this glyph will prove of increasing value, 

 particularly in the decipherment of New Empire texts. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



Garrison, Fielding H., Army Medical Museum, Washington, District of 

 Colmnbia. Preparation and publication of the Index Medicus. (For pre- 

 vious reports, see Year Books Nos. 2-17.) 



The Index Medicus for 1918 (second series, volume 16) contained 

 776 pages, with an index covering 153 pages, as compared with 682 and 

 134 pages, respectively, for 1917. During the latter half of the year, 

 many of the large German weeklies became available, and the refer- 

 ences to this literature checked the decrease in size of the monthly 



