ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 23 



Prof. Otis T. Mason made some remarks upon the preservation 

 of ancient monuments. 1 • 



Tenth Regular Meeting, October 21, 1879. 



Col. Garrick Mallery read a paper entitled The Sign Language 

 of the North American Indians. 2 



Eleventh Regular Meeting, November 4, 1879. 



Dr. W. J. Hoffman read a paper entitled Poisoned Weapons 

 of North and South America. 3 



Mr. G. Brown Goode read a paper entitled The Use of 

 Agricultural Fertilizers by the American Indians and the 

 early English Colonists. 4 



Twelfth Regular Meeting, November 18, 1879. 



Prof. Otis T. Mason read a paper entitled A Comparison of a 

 Written Language with one that is Spoken only. 5 



Dr. Elmer R. Reynolds read a paper On the Aboriginal Shell- 

 Heaps at Pope's Creek, Maryland. 6 



Thirteenth Regular Meeting, December 2, 1879. 



Mr. John C. Lang read a paper entitled Ancient Maps of 

 North America. 7 



1 Loc. cit., p. 17. 



2 Loc. cit., p. 19: Cf. " The Gesture Speech of Man," address by Col. Gar- 

 rick Mallery, Chairman of Subsection of Anthropology of the A. A. A. S. » 

 -" Proceedings," vol. XXX, pp. 283-313; also "Sign Language among North 

 American Indians compared with that among other Peoples and Deaf-Mutes," 

 in "Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology," i879-'8o, pp. 269-552. 



3 Loc. cit. , p. 21. 



♦"American Naturalist," vol. XIV, pp. 473-479. 



6 "Abstract of Transactions, &c," p. 21 ; also " Bulletin Philosophical Society 

 of Washington," vol. Ill, pp. 139-140. 



6 Loc. cit., p. 23. T Loc. cit., p. 25. 



