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departure of the Mayas from their original home until their 
destruction. Don Juan Pio Perez, a learned Yucatecan, had found - 
an old Maya manuscript containing this account, but failed to 
discover the author’s name. From this precious document Mr. 
Valentini attempts to reconstruct the Maya chronology in the 
Same manner that he deciphered the Mexican calendar stone. 
The results at which he arrives are as follows: 
1. That the conquerors and settlers of the Yucatecan peninsula, 
as well as those of the Anahuac lakes, were joint participants ina 
correction of their national calendar about the year 290 B.C. 
2. That about the year 137 A.D, when a total eclipse of the 
sun took place, the ancestors of both nations set out from their. 
common fatherland, Tula, or Tulapan. ; 
3. That about the year 231 A.D., both nations made their 
appearance on the coast of Central America, and succeéded in 
conquering a large portion of the peninsula. : 
GERMAN AntTHRopoLocy.—The second number of Correspon- 
_ denz-Blatt der deutschen Gesellschaft fir Anthropologie, Eth- 
nologie und Urgeschichte is taken up with a ‘preliminary state- 
ment concerning an anthropological and prehistoric exhibition for 
Germany, which will take place in connection with their Anthro- 
Pological Society in Berlin, in August of this year. “In No. 3 we 
ave an exemplification of what our German cousins accomplish 
by concentrating one’s energies upon a single subject. Dr. H 
Fischer, of Freiburg, who is the greatest living authority upon 
jade, jadeite, nephrite, chroromelanite and kindred material, gives 
us a detailed account of every specimen of implements made 
from these materials, and known to exist in public and private 
“Museums-of Germany, Switzerland and Austria. 
Venerable Archdeacon Kirby delivered a lecture before the 
Philological Society of London, Friday, April 30th, on the Cree 
language, and the use of the syllabic characters in teaching it to 
the natives. 
Mr. J. B. Good has published at Victoria, British Columbia, a 
vocabulary and outlines of grammar of the Nitlakapamuk, or 
Thompson tongue, the language spoken by the Indians between 
Yale, Lilloet, Cache creek and Nicola lake, to which is added a 
phonetic Chimok dictionary, adapted for use in the province of 
British Columbia. 
the monuments erected to signalize this improvement and incite 
to increased activity, the Peabody Museum stands pre-eminent. 
The twelfth and thirteenth annual reports, constituting Nos. 3 and 
4 of Vol. 11, are quite up to the mark in the value of their origi- 
