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and it may be hoped for this reason that 

 the Quebec session may have contributed 

 towards exciting a permanent interest in 

 the subject in Canada. The program em- 

 braced in all 91 papers, but only about one 

 half of these were read. 



The congress was opened on Monday 

 morning by Sir Louis A. Jette, Lieutenant- 

 Governor of the Province of Quebec, and 

 -jvas welcomed by representatives of the 

 government and of the city of Quebec. 

 The reading of papers began on Monday 

 afternoon. The first meeting was devoted 

 to the subject of the French in Canada and 

 to historical papers. On this afternoon an 

 important contribution by Abbe Gosselin, 

 communicating unpublished documents re- 

 lating to the Indians of Louisiana, was 

 presented. Other important communica- 

 tions made during this meeting were by 

 Professor E. L. Stevenson on a Hondius 

 map recently discovered by Father Fischer ; 

 by Dr. Berthold Laufer on the history of 

 the introduction of maize into eastern Asia ; 

 by M. de Villiers du Terrage on the history 

 of Louisiana; and two papers— one by Mr. 

 Rivard, of Quebec, another by Professor 

 A. F. Chamberlain, of "Worcester— on the 

 Canadian French dialect. In the evening 

 Seiior Batres reported on his interesting 

 excavations at Teotihuacan, and Father 

 Jones spoke on the location of the Huron 

 villages. 



The program of Tuesday morning was 

 devoted to subjects relating to Mexico and 

 Central America. Professor Seler, of Ber- 

 lin, discussed a number of interesting speci- 

 mens from the collection Sologuren at 

 Oaxaca, the most remarkable of which is 

 a vase with a design almost identical with 

 those of Peru. Dr. Tozzer, of Cambridge, 

 communicated briefly the results of his in- 

 teresting studies of the Lacandones of 

 Chiapas, in which he showed that many of 

 the ancient customs of Central America 

 still survive. Dr. George Grant Mac- 



Curdy, of New Haven, followed with a dis- 

 cussion of the decorative art in the pottery 

 of Chiriqui. He tried to show that a great 

 many of the decorative motives of the pre- 

 historic tribes of this area may be derived 

 from a representation of the armadillo. 

 Tuesday afternoon opened with additional 

 papers relating to Central America and 

 South America. A number of the excel- 

 lent paintings from Chichen Itza by Miss 

 A. Breton, Bath, England, were exhibited 

 by Dr. Tozzer, who also gave interesting 

 notes on the Maya language spoken in 

 Yucatan, in which he particularly brought 

 out the occurrence of a true inclusive and 

 exclusive first person, in these dialects. 

 Professor Lejeal presented a joint paper 

 by himself and Mr. E. Boman, of Paris, 

 on the Calchaqui question, in which he 

 strongly opposed the stand taken by Pro- 

 fessor J'. Ambrosetti, who believed he had 

 discovered a relationship between the 

 Calchaqui and the Pueblo Indians of North 

 America. Professor Lejeal proved the 

 close relationship between the Andean cul- 

 ture and that of the Calchaqui. A general 

 review of the distribution and number of 

 South American linguistic stocks was given 

 by Professor Chamberlain. Father Jette, 

 of Alaska, sent in a brief description of 

 the Tinne tribes of southern Alaska. This 

 paper was supplemented by another one 

 sent by Rev. John Chapman, who treated 

 the Athapascan tribes of Anvik, Alaska. 

 His notes contain a number of interesting 

 Indian texts and a detailed description of 

 the festivals of the tribe. The afternoon 

 closed with a paper by Dr. Dixon on 

 linguistic relationships within the Shasta- 

 Achomawi stock, in which it was shown 

 that a number of languages of northern 

 California, notwithstanding their marked 

 differences, are members of the same stock. 

 On Wednesday morning the principal 

 papers were by Mrs. C. 0. Mason, Miss 

 Natalie Curtis and Miss A. de Cora, in 



