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Uxmal. A long sojourn in the interior of the peninsula enabled 
him to study the inland dialects. The words taken from these 
form an important part of the dictionary, and are quitenew. The 
coast dialects, mostly of the northern part of Yucatan, form the 
groundwork of the compilation, and additions were made to it 
from several ancient manuscript lexicons. The illustrious author 
had just terminated the letter U when, in 1859, death put an end 
to his labors. Subsequently, in 1870, Don Carlos Peon prevailed 
` upon Dr. C. H. Berendt to digest from the materials on hand the 
remaining four letters of the alphabet. The work is a good-sized 
quarto of 437 pages, with two prefaces, and bears the title, 
“ Diccionario de la lengua Maya, por D. Juan Pio Perez” (Merida 
de Yucatan, 1866-1877). Its publication was superintended by 
Eligio Ancona, a friend of the deceased author, and Dr. Fabian 
Carillo Suaste has added a biographical notice of Perez in twenty 
pages. The number of vocables explained amounts to 22,000 
their meanings are given in concise items, worded with great pre- 
cision. Syntactic examples are’ not often added as illustrations 
of words, though terms of archeological import are provided 
with longer explanations. Maya possesses considerable facilities 
for word composition, and we often find words counting from five 
to seven syllables ; this is partly due to the circumstance that this 
idiom is simultaneously a prefix and a suffix language, partly 
also to the frequent use of syllabic reduplication. 2 
The International Anthropological Exhibition at Moscow, 
which opened there on the 15th of April last, is reported in the 
papers to have been a great success. lt took place in an immense 
building which is used in winter for drilling troops. The 
exposition was divided into several sections, among which those 
of archæology, craniology and ethnography played the chief 
part. There was also a department in which was shown, partly 
by pictures and partly by objects, the different methods of rear- - 
ing children, swaddling, cradling, etc. The section of craniology 
embraced from 1200 to 1500 crania from various provinces, among 
which the Russian skulls are naturally in the majority. The 
archæological was also especially interesting. The exposition was 
completed by a congress, held from the 16th to the 25th of April, 
in the Polytechnic Museum, the meeting piace of the Society of 
the Friends of the Natural Sciences. A second session took 
place from the 8th to the 17th of August, at which delegates from 
the various European states were present 
The third number of the Revue d’ Anthropologie for the current 
year opens with a paper of seventy pages, by Dr. Paul Broca 
