S18 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



Professor Cox, the Vice-President of the section, congratulated Mr. Hove\-, 

 on settling this important point, which had long been in dispute among scientific 

 men. After some remarks in reference to priority of discovery of Welcome 

 avenue leading from Blacksnake avenue into Serpent Hall, the section adjourned. 



In the section of Anthropology, the first paper read was " Worked Shells in 

 the New England Shell Heaps," by Edward S. Morse. Mr. Morse exhibited 

 specimens of the large winch cockle [lunatia), which showed unmistakable signs 

 of having been worked. His work consisted in cutting out a portion of the 

 outer whorl near the surface. To show that this portion could not be artificially 

 broken he exhibited naturally-broken shells of the same species, both recent and 

 ancient, in which the fractures were entirely unlike the worked shells. 



Professor Cyrus Thomas read a paper entitled, " Comparison of Maya Dates 

 with Those of the Christian Era." 



Professor Thomas is preparing for the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian 

 Institution an article on "The Manuscript Troano," which is described as fol- 

 lows : 



This manuscript was found about the year 1865 at Madrid, Spain, by the 

 Abbe Brasseur de Bourbourg while on a visit to the Library of the Royal His- 

 torical Academy, and named by him " Manuscript Troano," in honor of its pos- 

 sessor, Don Juan de Tro y Ortolano. 



This work was reproduced in fac-simile by a chromo-lithographic process by 

 the commission Scientifique du Mexique, under the auspices of the French Gov- 

 ernment, Brasseur de Bourbourg being the editor. 



The original is written on a strip of Maguey paper about fourteen feet long 

 and nine inches wide, the surface of which is covered with a white paint or var- 

 nish, on which the characters and figures are painted in black, red, blue and brown. 

 It is folded fan-like into thirty-five folds, presenting, when the folds are pressed 

 together, the appearance of an ordinary octavo volume. The hieroglyphics and 

 figures cover both sides of the paper, comprising seventy pages, the writing and 

 painting of the figures having been apparently executed after the paper was fold- 

 ed, so that the folding does not interfere with the writing. 



Some progress has been made in deciphering the Maya picture-writing or 

 hieroglyphics. 



Mr. McAdams read a paper on "Stone Implements from the Drift," and 

 exhibited several stone axes which some persons thought showed drift marks upon 

 them. They were found in ravines, and might be referred to a period much 

 older than that to which they really belonged. In his explorations he had found 

 nothing which convinced him that we really have paleolithic implements in our 

 drift deposits. The relics were examined with great interest. 



In the Section of Entomology, Professor Riley read a paper on "The Egg- 

 case of Hydrophilus triangularis," with illustrative drawings; also another on "The 

 Oviposition of Prodoxus decipiens," a small white moth. 



B.. Pickman Mann read a paper on "Suggestions of Co-operation in Furth- 

 ering the Study of Entomology," and Psyche in particular. 



