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SCIENTIFIC RECORD FOR 1885. 



4. Tz'utujiles (around Aitlau). 



Synonymy: Sotojil (Fuentes); also Zutnhil, Tzutohil. 



B. Mame group. 



1. Ixiles (Cotzal and vicinity). 



2. Mames (all Southwestern Guatemala). 



Syuonomy: Zakloli-pakap (Reynoso); Mem. (authors). 



3. Aguacatecas (Huehuetenango. The Sinca language (Southeast Gua- 



temala). 

 Synonomy: Sinca (Juftrros); Xinca (Berendt Mss.); Xorti (Gavar- 

 rette's chart). 

 The Alagiiilac language (S. Cristobal) little known. 



tSchane of Ike Alaya languages. 



Huaateca. 



Maya. 



(Mop an.) 



ChoTitdl. 



Tzental. 



Tzotzil. 



CJiaHabal. 



Choi. 



Qu ekchi. 



FokancJii, 



Poliomam. 



Chorti. 



CaJtchiqueT. 



Tzxdujil. 



Qd iche. 



Uspant^ca 



Ixil. 



Mame, 



Aguacatecn. 



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Dr. John Beddoe has published the result of a study extending over 

 thirty years, prosecuted for the purpose of ascertaining the comj^onents 

 in the present population of the British Isles. The color of the hair 

 and eyes is the chief reliance in the author's observations for the analysis 

 of racial distribution in the present population of Britain. 



GLOSSOLOGY. 



The lecture before the " Conference Transformiste" this year was de- 

 livered by M. Abel Hovelacque on the evolution of language. Accord- 

 ing to the lecture both scientific analysis and the speech of infants 

 prove that language primordially springs from monosyllabic elements. 

 At lirst the cries and ejaculations of children are intentional, and later 

 .tjje^y in common with savages express tJtie.ir .ideas by eimotioiial tones. 



