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tigators, supplemented by the critical study of the best linfjuistH and the, 

 original investigations of the author. Excei)ting a small part of our 

 west coast, we are now able U) refer every square league; of our territory 

 to some linguistic stock, and to declare to what stock each tribe be- 

 longed. In round nund)ers then^ are, or were, within the territor-y of 

 North America sevc^nty stock languages, each spoken in one or more 

 separate tongues or languages, and each, of these ofttimes divided into 

 several dialects. 



Dr. Allain's investigations concerning the first rudiments of infantile 

 language open up a wonderful vein of inquiry, leading not only to the 

 stiuly of order in the production of sounds, but to the i)sychological 

 manifestations revealed in the process. 



The develoi)ment of language among children is the subject of a paper 

 by M. Sikorsky. 



Tolmie and Dawson have prepared a volume of comparative vocabu- 

 laries of the Indian tribes of British Columbia, with a maj) illustrating 

 distribution. The stocks from north to south are the Thliidvit, Tshim- 

 siau, Ilaida, Kwakiool, Kawitshin, Aht, liilhoobi, Selish, 'J'iniKi, Tslii- 

 nook. 



Prof. John Campbell, of Montreal, has continued his investigations 

 upon the i)robable relationshij) between the Aztec and other American 

 aboriginal languages and the Khitan. 



Through the studies of Brinton, and Charency, the knowledge of the 

 Central American languages has advanced. Brinton especially has 

 made solid contiibiitions to knowledge by the addition of new material. 



Mr. liobert Needliam Cust has j)ublished in two volumes, with a map, 

 a sketch of the modern languages of Africa. It is a work of the great- 

 est value, albeit in some places the author confounds blood find lan- 

 guage. The work is reviewed in Nature by Mr. A. II. Keane, and th(; 

 defects are pointed out. It is just such work as preceded the formation 

 of our own Bureau of Ethnology, which will sift the evidence and give 

 us an accurate account of linguistic stocks. 



MYTHOLOGY AND FOLK-LORE. 



Mr. J.O. Dorsey has made two contributions to the literatureof Indian 

 mythology. Several other myths have been recorded. The Bureau of 

 Ethnology is especially engaged in this work, and will publish a large 

 volume on the subject. 



Mr. Cushing's paper on Zufii fetiches, before mentioned, is an account 

 of the deities presiding over space, of the animal forms in which these 

 deities are embodied, the manner in which they are represented in stone, 

 and the conceptions which underlie their worship of these animals. 



Major Powell, in commenting on this i)aj)er, uses the following lan- 

 guage : 



"The philosophy of the Zufiisis an admirable example of that stage in 



