690 SCIENTIFIC RECORD FOR 1884 



The following is Mr. Keane's ethnologic chart: 



*Hamite, Eushite of some writers, answering to the African division of the Mediterranean or Can- 

 casic anthropologic type. For the removal of Tibbu from the Negro to the Hamite race, see Nature, 

 March 1, 1883 (North African Ethnology). Most of these are zealous Muhamraedans. 



t The Arab Semites are recent intruders, mainly via Isthmus of Suez and Egypt. The Himyarites 

 are intruders from prehistoric times from South Arabia via Strait of Bab-el Mandeb. The fonner 

 Muhammedans, the latter monopbysite Chnstians. 



J Nubas, intermediate between the Negro and the Hamite. Speech, Negro. No connection with the 

 Fnlah of West Sudan. The Kordofan Nnbas, original stock, Pagans. Those of the Nile. Negroid 

 Christians from V-XIV century. Since then mild Muhammedan. They are the tJaua of Egyptian 

 records ; Nvhce of Strabo, later Nubatas. 



§ Most of these negroes still Pagans. Some, as Mittu, Krej, and Bongo, red-brown, rather than black, 

 but the tj-pe is negro. Speech of all except the Diuka shows grammatic gender. 



II BantuB not reduced. Included in the Moudirie de 1' fiquaetenr of Messedaglia's oflBcial "Carte du 

 Sudan " (Khartum, 1883). 



Prince Koland Bonaparte is conferring a lasting benefit upon science 

 by his portfolios of racial types. Each person is taken in profile and 

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



COMTAEATIVE PHILOLOGY. 



In the philological camp during the past year there was little activ- 

 ity. Neither the Smithsonian Institution, the Bureau of Ethnology, the 

 Peabody Museum, the Antiquarian Society, nor the Archreological In- 

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

 Grammar, Brintou's Grammar of the Cakchiquel, Campbell's Khitan 

 Studies, Charency's Maya-Quich^ l)apers, Gatschet's Substantive Verb 

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

 American Languages are about all that mi§^t be called permanent lit- 

 erature upon our side of the Atlantic. 



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



