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print. If this interpretation be a correct one, it goes toward fixing the 
age of the workmanship, and brings it within the historic period of North 
America, 
Stated Meeting, October 17, 1884. 
Present, 15 members. 
President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair. 
A letter requesting exchanges was received from Mr, J. C, 
Rowell, Librarian of the University of California, dated Berke- 
ley, October 1. On motion, the University of California was 
placed on the list to receive the Transactions and Proceedings 
from the beginning. 
A letter requesting missing numbers of T'ransactions and 
Proceedings American Philosophical Society was received 
from the Imperial Society of Nature, Moscow, dated Sep- 
tember 1. 
Donations to the Library were reported from the Royal So- 
ciety of Victoria; the Annales des Mines and Revue Politique; 
the Royal Academy of History at Madrid; the Meteorologi- 
sal Office, the Journal of Foresty and London Nature; Dr. 
Edward Jarvis, of Boston; Harvard University; the New 
York Academy of Sciences; the College of Pharmacy, the 
Franklin Institute, the Engineers’ Club, the American Journal 
of Medical Sciences, Rev. HE. W. Syle, Mr. Heary Phillips, Jr., 
and L. R. Hamersly, of Philadelphia; the Maryland Histori- 
sal Society; the Bureau of Education, the United States 
National Museum and the Surgeon-General’s Office at Wash- 
ington, 
A paper on /Terderite was read by Dr. F. A. Genth. 
A paper on the Language and Ethnographic position of the 
Xinka (Shinka) Indians of Guatemala was read by Dr. D. G. 
Brinton. The paper embraced two vocabularies of three dia- 
lects, the only known existing specimens of the language. 
Dr, Syle objected to the statement made in the memoir that the absence 
of native names of salt, maize, &c., must necessarily be taken as evidence 
that the aboriginal Xinkas did not know, or possess the articles until the 
advent of their Aztec and Maya conquerors ; adducing the fact that the 
