26 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



Twentieth Regular Meeting, March 16, 1880. 



Mr. Albert S. Gatschet read a paper entitled The Four Crea- 

 tions ok Mankind — A Tualati Myth. 1 



Twenty-First Regular Meeting, April 6, 18S0. 



Mr. C. C. Royce read a paper on The Indian Title — The 

 Method and Chronology of its Extinguishment by the 

 United States. 2 



Twenty-Second Regular Meeting, April 20, 1880. 

 Mr. Lester F. Ward read a paper entitled Pre-Social Man. 8 



Twenty-Third Regular Meeting, May 4, 18S0. 

 Mr. A. L. Guss read a paper entitled Who were the Massa- 



WOMEKES?* 



Twenty-Fourth Regular Meeting May 18, 1880. 



Dr. Elmer R. Reynolds read a paper on The Dunbarton Abo- 

 riginal Soapstone Quarry. 5 



Prof. E. A. Fay read a paper entitled The Testimony of the 

 Romance Languages concerning the Forms of the Imperfect 

 and Pluperfect Subjunctive in the Roman Folk-Speech. 6 



1 Loc. cit., p. 60. 



2 Loc. cit. , p. 64 : also " Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United 

 States : illustrated by those in the State of Indiana," by C. C. Royce, in "Annual 

 Report of the Bureau of Ethnology," 1879-80, pp. 247-262, with map. 



s Loc. cit., p. 68. This paper is condensed from Chapter VI (vol I, pp. 

 424-446), of the author's forthcoming work, " Dynamic Sociology, &c," in 

 press, D. Appleton & Co?, New York. 



* Loc. cit. , p. 7 1 . 



6 "Twelfth annual Report of the Peabody Museum of Archccology and Eth- 

 nology," Cambridge, 1879, PP- 526—535 ; also reprint. 



6 "Abstract of Transactions," &c, p. 72 : also in full in " The American Journal 

 of Philology," vol. I, pp. 410-415. 



