Februakt 3, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



181 



mittee of organization of the congress in 

 Mexico. The latter committee decided to limit 

 the council to governmental delegates. In 

 doing so it took into the council diplomats 

 and the judge of a state court; excellent men 

 all of them, but only momentarily interested 

 in the purposes for which the congress exists. 

 At the same time it left out of the council 

 those who have been attending the congresses 

 for years, some of whom had previously sat in 

 its councils, and including professional Amer- 

 icanists attached to and delegated by some of 

 the foremost museums and institutions of 

 learning in America. If the last paragraph 

 of article 7 can be construed in such a man- 

 ner as to take the control of the congress away 

 from those, but for whom it could not exist, 

 it should be amended at the first opportunity; 

 and the power to limit the number of the 

 council should be transferred from the 

 ephemeral committee of organization, often 

 composed of members who never attended a 

 congress before and who will probably never 

 do so again, to the " Assembly " of members 

 present, which in a measure, at least, is a 

 perpetual body. 



During the congress, a committee of dele- 

 gates from Mexico, France, Germany, Har- 

 vard University, the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania and Columbia University met and 

 agreed upon the foundation of an interna- 

 tional school of archeology in the city of 

 Mexico. Other governments and universities 

 may take part in this movement by subscrib- 

 ing to the by-laws (now in process of ratifica- 

 tion). The present director of the school is 

 Professor Eduard Seler. 



The next congress will be held in London 

 during the month of September, 1912. 



The following papers were presented and 

 will be published in the Compte rendu of the 

 congress : 



" La etnologia de las razas indlgenas que pob- 

 laron las comarcas del BUr de Tamaulipas," Ale- 

 jandro Prieto. 



" Contribution to the Anthropology of Peru," 

 AlSs Hrdlicka. 



" La huella mSs antigua quiza del hombre en 

 la peninsula de Yucatan; Estudio de la industria 



prehist6rica de Coneepci6n (Campeche)," Jorge 

 Engerrand. 



" Pruebas geologicas de que la parte norte de 

 la peninsula yueateea no ha podido ser habitada 

 por el hombre durante la 6poca cuaternaria," 

 Jorge Engerrand. 



" Un caso de eruzamiento entre un Chino y 

 una Yueateea de origen indlgena," Jorge Enger- 

 rand. 



" Quelques observations sur I'art de guerir chez 

 certains tribus nomades du nord du Mexique," 

 Theo. Dupoyet.' 



" La trepanacion entre nuestros aborlgenes," 

 Alberto M. Carreno. 



" El rayo de luz y la oronologJa India," Abra- 

 ham Castellanos. 



" Sobre correeciones del perJodo de Venus en 

 los manuscritos historieos mexicanos," Hermann 

 Beyer.' 



" Zodiacal Symbolism of the Mexican and 

 Maya Month- and Day-signs," Stansbury Hagar. 

 " The Celestial Plan of TeotihuacSn," Stans- 

 bury Hagar. 



" El zodiaco de los Incas en comparacion con 

 el de los Aztecas," Arnolfo Krum Heller. 



" Los grandes cicloa de la historia maya segtln 

 el manuscrito del Chumayel," Juan Martinez 

 Hernandez. 



" La medicina entre los Indios mexicanos antes 

 de la conquista," Francisco A. Flores. 



" Publicaciones nuevas sobre la linguistica 

 americana," Franz Boas. 



" A Classification of Maya Verbs," Alfred M. 

 Tozzer. 



" Lenguas de la familia nahuatlana; su clasifi- 

 caclon," Francisco Belmar. 



" Dios (, Que idea tenian de el los antiguos 

 mexicanos ? " Cecilo A. Kobelo.' 



" Idolatrias y supersticiones de los Indios," 

 Vicente de P. Andrade. 



"El verdadero concepto de la etnologia: La 

 cieneia de gobernar," Andres Molina Enrlquez 

 (read by title). 



" Algunas lenguas que se hablan en el sur del 

 Estado de Chiapas," Carlos Sapper.' 



" The Language of the Tano Indians of New 

 Mexico," John P. Harrington.' 



" Colon y la lengua castellana y las ameri- 

 canas," Antonio Sanchez Moguel. 



'Read by title, but will be published in the 

 Compte rendu of the congress. 



