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Commander W. Bain bridge Hoff, U. S. N., read a paper entitled 

 A Strange Chart. 1 



Seventeenth Regular Meeting, February 3, 1880. 



Dr. Wills DeHass read a paper entitled The Mound-Builders 

 An Inquiry into their assumed Southern Origin. 2 



Eighteenth Regular Meeting, February 17, 1880. 



Dr. H. C. Yarrow read a paper entitled Burial Customs of 

 the North American Indians. 3 



Prof. J. Howard Gore read a paper entitled The Development 

 of Deliberative Government among the North American 

 Indians.* 



Nineteenth Regular Meeting, March 2, 1880. 



The President, Major J. W. Powell, delivered his Annual Address, 

 the subject being The Evolution of Language, as exhibited 

 in the Specialization of the Grammatic Processes, the Dif- 

 ferentiation of the Parts of Speech, and the Integration 

 of the Sentence; from a Study of Indian Languages. 5 



1 Loc. cit., p. 33; also in " The Evening Star," Washington, D. C, Jan. 24, 

 1880, p. 2. 



2 Loc. «?.,p. 55. 



3 " Introduction to the Study of Mortuary Customs among the North American 

 Indians, by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, Act. Asst. Surg. U. S. A., published by the 

 Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, 1880. Cf. " A Further Contribution to the 

 Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians," by the same 

 author, in "Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology^" 1879-80, pp. S7-203. 



4 Loc. cit., p. 58. 



5 Loc. cit., p. 35. Cf. "Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages," 2d 

 edition, Washington, 18S0, by J. W. Powell, Director of the Bureau of Ethnology, 

 Chapter II; also "Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology," i879-'8o, pp. 

 I-16. 



