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Mehnert, Ernst — Continued 



unthrup. SumialungenDeutschlands, vol. 

 XV, Braunschweig, 1893.) 



Contains (pp. 70-71) the description and 

 measurements of an Alacalufan skull taken from 

 a cave near Cape Tiim in Magdalen Soimd. Cf. 

 also p. 75. 



Menendez, Francisco 



Segunda expedicion hecha d los 

 referidos arcMpielagos de Guaitecas, y 

 Guaianeco, por loa religiosos misioneros 

 P. Fr. Francisco Menendez, y P. Fr. 

 Ignacio Bargas ... a fines del afio de 

 1779, y principios del de 1780, segun 

 consta de la carta escrita al P. Fr. 

 Julian Real por el citado P. Fr. Fran- 

 cisco Menendez, que es como se sigue. 

 (In Gonzdlez de Agiieros, pp. 243-248.) 



Contains on pp. 245-248 a few notes that have 

 a slight bearing on the question of the linguistic 

 relationship of the Chonos to the Chilotans. 

 Fathers Menendez and Bargas returned to Oastro 

 on Jan. 11, 1780, having gotten as far south as 

 the Guaianeco Archipelago during their three 

 months' e.xpedition. They brought back 32 (30) 

 natives with them. 



Meriais, Phre 



Traversee du detroit de Magellan, et 

 observations sur les Patagons et les 

 Feugiens. (In Nouvelles annates des 

 voyages et des sciences geogr., Paris, 1847, 

 cxiii, 5tli ser. ix, 377-392.) 



Contains a fairly good account of Alacaluf 

 encountered at Port Gallant, where the writer 

 made a stay of eight days. Two native words, 

 cherou, "canoe," and fata, "it is cold." 



Middleton, R. Morton 



Sec Myrcs. 



Mills, PMlo Laos 



Preliistoric religion. (In prepara- 

 tion, to be published Washington, 

 probably 1917.) 



Contains passim tlie essential data on Fue- 

 gian religious and quasi-religious culture. This 

 scholarly work should l)e an excellent stapling 

 point for comparative study, as the author in his 

 treatment of uncivilized peoples has collected and 

 coordinated practically all that is known of the 

 religious and quasi-reUgious culture of those on 

 the same low plane of general cultural develop- 

 ment as the Fuegians. 



Mission de la Terra de Feu. (In La 



Nature, Paris, 1''^ sem., 1884, xii, 273- 



275, 310-314, 362-364.) 



Unsigned articles written by members of the 



French Cape Horn Expedition 1882-83. The 



first and second articles contain a good but short 



Mission de la Terre de Feu — Continued 

 summary of Yahgan culture. Some 10 Yahgan 

 words passim in second. Map and 4 woodcuts. 



Mitre, Bartolome 



Museo Mitre: Catalogo razonado de la 

 seccion lenguas americanas, con una 

 introduccion de Luis Maria Torres, 3 

 vols., Buenos Aires, 1909-1911. 



Contains important material on the Fuegian 

 and Chono.in languages (i, 153-1S9). Of special 

 interest is the full text (pp. 179-189) of Dr. Spe- 

 gazzini's Elementi di grammatica laghan, sis- 

 tema Ollendorf. The critical bibliography (pp. 

 153-179) of 20 works and articles on the Fuegian 

 languages contains some minor inaccuracies but 

 is nevertheless a valuablestudy ; see especially the 

 following: The accounts of Mr. Lucas Bridges' 

 MS. Ona vocabulary, p. 1&4, and of Dr. 

 Spegazzini's MS. Ona-Yahgan-Alacaluf vocabu- 

 lary, pp. 176-177; the Rev. Thomas Bridges' 

 letter, pp. 161-162; the abstracts of Dr. Adam's 

 Grammaire de la langue Jagane, pp. 168-172, and 

 of Dr. Spegazzini's Apuntes filologicos, pp. 17,5- 

 176. 



Gen. Mitre's critical bibliography was largely 

 drawn upon and made accessible to English- 

 speaking readers by Prof. Chamberlain (a and b). 



Molina, Juan Ignacio 



(«) Compendio della storia geogra- 

 fica, naturale e civile del regno del 

 Chile, Bologna, 1776; Germ, tr., Ham- 

 burg, 1782; Span. tr. in Col. hist. Chile, 

 vol. XI, 1878. 



Contains (pt. 2, pp. 209-210) meager unimpor- 

 tant notes on the Chonos. 



(6) Saggio sulla storia naturale del 

 Chili, Bologna, 1782; Germ, tr., Leip- 

 zig, 1786; Span, tr., Madrid, 1788, and 

 repr. in Col. hist. Chile, vol. xi, 1878; 

 Fr. tr., Paris, 1789; Engl, tr.. Middle- 

 town, Conn., 1808, and repr. London, 

 1809. 



Contains (p. 340) a paragraph on the Poyas 

 and Caucaus, the latter probably Chonos. "I 

 Caucau sono di mediocre statura, hanno pari- 

 mente una lingua assai diversa [dal Chilese] 

 ..." See also p. 336, and map opp. p. .33. 



(c) Compendio de la historia civil 

 del reyno de Chile, Madrid, 1795 (tr. 

 of Saggio sulla storia civile, Bologna, 

 1787); in Col. hist. Chile, xxvi, 1901; 

 Engl, tr., Middlotown, 1808, and Lon- 

 don, 1809. 



Bk. 4, ch. 2, contains a description of the 

 (Chilotan) plank boat . 



Mondifere, A. T. 



Note sur quelques moulages d'organes 

 g^nitaux des deux sexes pris par le 



