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SCIENTIFIC EECORD FOR 1885. 



4. Tz'utujiles (around Aitlau). 



Synonymy : Sotojil (Fuentes); also Zut nhil, Tzutohil. 



I). Mame group. 



1. Ixiles (Cotzal and vicinity). 



2. Mames (all Soutliwestern Guatemala). 



Synouomy: Zakloh-pakap (Reynoso); Mem. (autbors). 



3. Aguacatecas (Huebuetenango. Tbe Sinca language (Southeast Gua- 



temala). 

 Synonomy: Sinca (Juarros); Xinca (lierendt Mss.); Xorti (Gavar- 

 rette's cbart). 

 The Alagiiilac language (S. Cristobal) little known. 



Scheme of ilic Maya languages. 



Huasteca. 



Maya. 



[Mop an.) 



Choixtdl. 



TzeTttdi. 



TzotzU. 



Chandbdl. 



ChoT. 



Qu ekchi. 



Fokorwhi, 



PoTtomam. 



Chorti. 



CaTtchiqueT,^ 



TzuiujU. \^% 



Qdiclie. I I I 



Uspanteca. J 



ixii. i 



>* 2 



<S 



- ll ^ 



Aguacalecn.j • '^ 



Mame. r S S 



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

 thirty years, prosecuted for the purpose of ascertaining the comi)onents 

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

 and eyes is tbe chief reliance in the author's observations for tbe 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 S])rings from monosyllabic elements. 

 At first tbe cries and ejaculations of childnni are intentional, and later 

 they in comujou with savages express their ideas by emotional tones. 



