408 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
lection is returned with annotations by him and also by Mr. WALTER 
CAREW, Commissioner for the Interior of Navitilevu. The last named 
gentleman describes some signs of a Fijian uninstructed deaf-mute. 
Mr. F. A. VON RuPPRECHT, Kepahiang, Sumatra, supplies informa- 
tion and comparisons respecting the signs and signals of the Redjangs 
and Lelongs, showing agreement with some Dakota, Comanche, and 
Ojibwa signs. 
Letters from Mr. A. W. Howirt, F. G. S., Sale, Gippsland, Victoria, 
upon Australian signs, and from Rey. JAMES SIBREE, jr., F. BR. G. S., 
relative to the tribes of Madagascar, are gratefully acknowledged. 
Many other correspondents are now, according to their kind promises, 
engaged in researches, the result of which have not yet been received. 
The organization of those researches in India and Ceylon has been ac- 
complished through the active interest of Col. H. S. OLcorr, U. S. Com- 
missioner, Breach Candy, Bombay. 
Grateful acknowledgment must be made to Prof. E. A. Fay, of the 
National Deaf Mute College, through whose special attention a large 
number of the natural signs of deaf-mutes, remembered by them as hay- 
ing been invented and used before instruction in conventional signs, 
indeed before attending any school, was obtained. The gentlemen who 
made the contributions in their own MS., and without prompting, are as 
follows: Messrs. M. BALLARD, R. M. ZieGLER, J. Cross, Pomp J. 
HASENSTAB, and LARS Larson. Their names respectively follow their 
several descriptions. Mr. BALLARD is an instructor in the college, and 
the other gentlemen were pupils during the session of 1880. 
Similar thanks are due to Mr. J. L. Novus, superintendent of the 
Minnesota Institution for the education of the Deaf and Dumb, Fari- 
bault, Minn., and to Messrs. GEORGE WING and D. H. CARROLL, teach- 
ers in that institution, for annotations and suggestions respecting deaf- 
mute signs. The notes made by the last named gentlemen are followed 
by their respective names in reference. 
Special thanks are also rendered to Prof. JAMES D. BUTLER, of Mad- 
ison, Wis., for contribution of Italian gesture-signs, noted by him in 
1843, and for many useful suggestions. 
Other Italian signs are quoted from the Essay on Italian gesticula- 
tions by his eminence Cardinal WISEMAN, in his Essays on Various Subjects 
London, 1855, Vol. II, pp. 533-555. Many Neapolitan signs are ex- 
tracted from the illustrated work of the canon ANDREA DE JoRio, La 
Mimica degli Antichi investigata nel gestire Napoletano, Napoli, 1832. 
A small collection of Australian signs has been extracted from R. 
BrouGH Smyrw’s The Aborigines of Victoria, London, 1878. 
