760 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
Nambe, Tesuque, Santa Clara and one of the Moki Pueblos. Of these Pueblos, 
Santa Clara is the only one located on the western bank of the Rio Grande. 
5. Piro in Sinecu, south of El Paso. 
LINGUISTIC LITERATURE.—SIMPsON (J. H.)—Vocabulary of Jemes, etc., 30 
words, pp. 140--143; reprinted in Davis’ ‘‘El Gringo.” 
Wuitinc (David V,)—Vocabulary of Tesuque, about 400 words. [In School- 
craft III, 446-450. | 
The above reprinted in 
BuscHMANN (J. C. E.)—‘‘Volker und Sprachen.” Berlin: 1856, 4°. 
Loew (Oscar)—Isleta, Jemes, San Ildefonso, San Juan. Vocabulary of about 
230 words each, and sentences from Tesuque (about fifty). [In Gatschet (A. S.) 
“‘Zwolf Sprachen.” Weimar: 1870, 8°. 
PALMER (Doctor)—Vocabulary of Taowa (MSS. ) 
BARTLETT (J. R.)—Vocabularies of Piro, of Sinecu, of Tigua (viz: Téhua, 
Tewa. MSS.) 
Yarrow (Dr. H. C.)—Vocabulary of Los Liiceros. (MSS). 
Yarrow (Dr. H. C.)—Vocabulary of Los Taos. In Gatschet (A. S.) ‘‘Zwolf 
Sprachen.” Weimar: 1870, 8°. 
Kantz (Aug V.)—Vocabulary of Isleta, 1869. (MSS.) 
Gripes (Geo.)—Vocabulary of Isleta, 1868. (MSS.) 
COnRMESEON DENCE: 
SCLENCE LETTER FROM PARIS. 
“Paris, January 1, 1881. 
The problem of prehistoric times—of primitive man, is a modern problem, 
and one which has provoked a passionate interest even in spheres outside science, 
because everybody feels that with the question of our origin is tied in some sort by 
a thousand cords—not only that of our actual, but of our future destiny. The 
ideas of transformation since ten years have made astonishing progress; but in 
their wake have also followed exaggerations; the Germans, in pushing theories 
to their utmost limit, have only arrived to be absurd. At present there is a kind 
of relative calm on the part of those who study seriously the delicate question of 
the origin of animals; they find themselves in the face of questions unsolved— 
that changing the place of a miracle does not resolve it, and that in all phenome- 
na science halts in the presence of the inexplicable. Those who desire to approach 
the grave matters in question, in this spirit, cannot do better than read M. de 
' Nadaillac’s two volumes on Les Premiers Hommes. It is a calm, impartial and 
independent examination of all the evidence and discoveries known, up to the pres- 
ent. Man—yes or no; has he lived during the tertiary period? That’s the ques- 
tion. There are scientists who would place the origin of man not only in the 
