22 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



Seventy-Seventh Regular Meeting, February 5, 1884. 



Major J. W. Powell, President, in the Chair. 



The Council, through its Secretary, reported the election, as active 

 members, of the following gentlemen : 



John Jay Knox, Dorman B. Eaton, John M. Gregory, Edward 

 T. Peters, Herbert H. Bates, Anton Carl. 



The Curator read the following report of the publications received 

 by the Society since the first meeting of the present session in Novem- 

 ber : 



From the Society. — Bull. Buffalo Society Nat. History. Vol. IV. 

 Nos. I, 2, 3, for 1881, '82. 



Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. Publication 



No. 7. 1883. Memorial. (Isaac Smith Osterhout ) 



Ymer. Bull, issued by the Swedish Anthropological and 



Geographical Soc'y. Stockholm. 1883. Parts i — 6. 



Bull. Anthropological Society of Paris. 6th vol., 3d Ser- 



Part 3. May and July, 1883. 



Archivio, etc., from the Italian Society of Anthropology, 



Ethnology and Comparative Psychology. XIII. 2nd fasci- 

 cule, 1883. 



Annual Report of the Frankfort (Germany) Society of 



Geograpliy and Statistics. 18S1-1883 



Bull, of the Library Co., of Philada. Jan., 1884. 



From the Publishers. — Science and Nature. An International 

 Illustrated Review of the Progress of Science and Industry. 

 Paris. Balliere et Fils. Dec. 29, 1883. 



From the Author. — No. III. American Aboriginal Literature. 

 Consisting of "The Giieglience ; A Comedy Ballet in the 

 Nahuatl-Spanish Dialect of Nicaragua. Edited by Dr. D. 

 G. Brinton. Philada. 1883. 8vo. Pp. 94. 



Aboriginal American Authors and their productions, especi- 

 ally those in the native languages. By Dr. D. G. Brinton. 

 Philada. 1883. Svo. Pp. 63. [This memoir is an en- 

 largement of a paper laid before the last International Con- 

 gress of Americanists, at Copenhagen, Aug., 1883.] 



A Brief Account of the More Important Public Collections of 



American Archceology in the United States. By Henry 

 Phillips, Jr. Philada. 1883 8vo. Pp. 9. 



