GOO SCIENTIFIC RECORD FOR 1884 



The following: is Mr. Kcauo's ethnologic chart: 



* TTaDiite, KusMte of some writers, answering to Iho African division of the Moditerranoan or Cau- 

 easie autbropolonie type. l'"or the removal of Tihbu from the Negro to the Ilaniite race, see Katurr, 

 starch 1, 1S8:! (Nortli African Ethnology). Most of these are zealons iMuhammedans. 



f The Arab Semites are recent inlrndecs. mainly via Istlimns of Sue/, and Egypt. The lliniyaritea 

 are intruders from preliistoric times from South Arabia via Strait of Hab-el Mandeb. The former 

 Muhammcdaus, the latter nionojdiysile Christians. 



J i\'t(()(T,s', intermediate between the Negro and the Uaniite. Speech, Negro. No connection with the 

 Fulah of West Sudan. The Kordofan Nubas, original stock, I'agaus. Those of (lie Nile, Ncgroiil 

 Christians fi'om V-XIV century. Since then mild ^luhanimedan. They are the Uaun of Egyptian 

 records; jVnJxr of Strabo, later Nubatav 



§ Tktost of these negroes still Pagans. Some, as Miltu, Krej, and Bongo, red-lirown, rather I h:in black, 

 but the type is negro. Speech of all except the Diuka shows gramniatic gender. 



II Bantos not reduced. Included in the Moudiric de 1' iSquaeteur of Messedaglia's ollicial "tlarte du 

 Sudan " (Khartum, 18S3). 



Prineo Roland Bonaparte is conforrinji' a lasting btMuMit uixm science 

 by his portfolios of racial types. Each ])crson is taken in prolile and 

 in lull face, and a short biography is in most cases attached. 



COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY. 



In the i)hilological camp dnring the past year there was little activ- 

 ity, l^either the Smithsonian Institntion, the Bnrean of Ethnology, the 

 Peabody IMusenni, the Anti(]narian Society, nor the Archa>ological In- 

 stitute published a paper or a volume on language. Aleman's Quicht'^ 

 (Trammar, Brinton's Grammar of the Cakchitjuel, Campbell's Khitan 

 Studies, Charency's Maya-Quiche i)apers, Gatschet's Substantive Verb 

 in North American Languages, and Powell's Classitication of North 

 American Languages are about all that might be called permanent lit- 

 erature upou our side of the Atlantic. 



The last-named paper is a compilation of the labors of all past inves- 



