THOMAS] NUMERAL SYMBOLS (alit 
this discovery independently, unless he had received some informa- 
tion on the subject from Maudslay of which I have no knowledge. It 
is apparent from a statement by the latter author in part 2 of his 
work, published in 1890, that the values of these symbols, save that of 
the chuen, were yet unknown to him. However, as Dr Férstemann 
seems to have fallen short of the discovery of their uses and the appli- 
vation of them, the chief credit of the discovery must be awarded to 
Mr Goodman. 
This discovery, which must cancel a number of previous specula- 
tions and affect to a large extent all attempts at interpretation of the 
inscriptions and codices, consists, first, in finding out the fact that in 
the inscriptions the orders of units above the first, to wit, his so-called 
chuens, ahaus, katuns, and cycles, were not indicated by position as 
in the codices, but each had its distinct character or glyph; second, in 
determining these characters and their values; and, third, in showing 
from the inscriptions the order in which they are generally arranged 
and the manner in which the truth of this discovery may be demon- 
strated. He has also discovered that a certain character, which he 
terms a ‘‘ calendar round symbo!,” was used to indicate the period of 
52 years, which has heretofore usually been designated a ‘‘ cycle” or 
‘‘eycle of years,” and also that certain face characters are used as 
numeral symbols. As we shall have occasion to use these in our 
investigation of the inscriptions, the usual forms of the principal ones 
(using Mr Goodman’s names) will be shown here and his other claimed 
discoveries will be considered hereafter. 
TuHEr CHUEN 
This character usually has a numeral symbol on top and at the left 
side, the former indicating the number of chuens and the latter the 
added or overplus days. 

Fic. 8—The chuen symbol. 
