ANTHROPOLOGY. G91 



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

 original investigations of the author. Excepting a small part of our 

 west coast, we are now able to refer every square league of our territory 

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

 longed. In round numbers there are, or were, within the territory of 

 I>rorth America seventy 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 

 study of order in the production of sounds, but to the psychological 

 manifestations revealed in the process. 



The development 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 map illustrating 

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

 sian, Haida, Kwakiool, Kawitshin, Aht, Bilhoola, Selish, Tinne, Tshi- 

 nook. 



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

 upon the probable relationship 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 contributions £o knowledge by the addition of new matenal. 



Mr. Eobert Needham Cust has published 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 and lan- 

 guage. The work is reviewed in Nature by Mr. A. H. Keane, and the 

 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 theliteratureof 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 Zuiii 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 paper, uses the following lan- 

 guage : 



" The philosophy of the Zunis is an admirable example of that stage in 



