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Oil the Pi'ehistoric Names for Man, Monli-y, Lizard, ^r. 

 Bi/ Hyde C'laeke, M.A.I. 



The writer first stated tliat tlie Australians call tlie white luan Wanda, also a 

 ■word for spirit, deuiou, or angel. In Afriean languages, Wanduni and Waui are 

 names for man : the names for man in African and Geutra!-Amer;can languages 

 interchanged with those for monkey, lizard, frog : of these numerous examples were 

 given. In jVssyrian monkey is '' udumu,'' which Kev.W. Houghton compares with the 

 Hebrew Adam as related to the anlliropoid ape. The Aryan Man and Son are found 

 in ^yrica and the prehistoric world in such relation as all Aryan pre-historic roots 

 are. There was no separate creation or development of Aryan roots, though there 

 was a selection, and Sanskrit words may be found among some of the lowest savages 

 in Africa. This thing is certain, that the Aryan languages were first those of blacks, 

 as are most of the languages of tlie world, and the words supposed to represent an 

 Aryan civilization are those of the culture of the earliest bhiclvs and savages. So, 

 too, as to primitive mythology, in the facts above slated will perh.aps be found the 

 origin of telem worship and of animal ancestors. 



On Hittite, Khitn, I/auiath, C'unaanite, Ltjdi.an, Etrusca)), Pcrtnian, 

 Mexican, S,-c. Bi/ Hyde Glaiuce, M.A.I. 



This paper embraces the author's investigations on that faniih^ and epoch to 

 which he had given the name of Sumero-Pernvian, but to which the title of Ilittite 

 had lately been given. Beginning with the Canaanites, the Hittites, kc, he stated 

 his investigations as to the decipherment of the Ilittite or Hamath inscriptions 

 and the Canaauite terms in the Bible. This part embraced in copious tables the 

 parallelism of (Jauaanite town names recorded in Scripture with those of Asia Minor, 

 pre-IIellenic Greece, Etruria, Italy, Iberian Spain (not Basque), Babylonia, India, 

 Beru, and Mexico. Applying this evidence again to support the linguistic, the com- 

 munity of Etruscan with Lydian and Ilittite was affirmed. The earliest culture of 

 India was assigned to the same family. Adopting the mass of evidence, the lan- 

 guages and culture of the great kingdoms of America were explained as being of 

 a like epoch with the '^Hittite," and the phenomena of an arrested culture in 

 America were accounted for. Thus while there were points of conformity in culture 

 and mythology, x\merica never shared in tlie highest stages in the Semitic or Aryan 

 developments. Traces of the tradition of the former communication with the New 

 A^'orld were illustrated. 



On a tSooloo SLuU. Bij Prof. Cleland, F.Ii.S. 



Oh the Phoenicians. By C. 0. Groom Napiek. 



On the Natives of British Guiana. By W. Haepek. 



On the Eastern Picture-writing. By J. Pabk Haeeison. 



On the Bodiyas of Ceylon. By Beeteam F. HAKXsnoKXE. 



On Homed Men of Alclcm, in Afriai. 

 By Captain J. S. Hay and Commander Cajieeox, f'.B. 



