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coöperation will prove great incentives to study and research. — E. A. 
BARBER. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News.— In the Report on Indian Affairs for 
1875, Dr. Thomas Foster announces the forthcoming of a first volume 
of his report on all the Indian Tribes of the United States. The 
author has prepared an elaborate memoir on the Winnebago tribe. 
Pending the appearance of this volume he has commenced the issue of 
a sheet entitled Fosters Indian Record and Historical Data, the first 
number appearing under date of November 30th. The object of the 
Record is to submit the plan of the work to “friendly criticism ” before 
the more costly and elaborate production appears. Fully agreeing with 
the author that such a work would be a worthy memorial of the race, 
if properly executed, we venture to offer some observations, certainly in 
no unfriendly spirit. The proof-reading of the Record is miserable ; 
the mixing up of sundry fonts of type in the columns gives the appear- 
ance of a type-founder’s circular; and the absence of literary taste de- 
tracts from the real and solid merit in the work. These, however, are 
venial faults, and doubtless will be rectified. The author commences 
his true work with the alphabet, and lays down several canons, some of 
which are decidedly untenable. The chief objection lies against the 
alphabet itself, which not only differs from Turner and Whipple’s, 
hitney’s quoted by Gibbs, and Major Powell’s in substituting new 
vocables for theirs, but also in calling for special fonts of type and un- 
common logotypes which cannot be reproduced excepting at the print- 
ing-oflice where Mr. Fosters works are published. Foreign students 
accustomed to study the vocabularies collected by the Gibbs circular 
will have to re-write them for comparison. It is not necessary to take 
up each letter separately, since we object to the whole alphabet. The 
monographs will be noticed in a future number. 
_*hose who wish a rich treat in philology will do well to read Dr. 
Richard Morris’s presidential address before the London Philological 
Society, May 19,1876. After recounting the labors of the society, and 
reviewing the work done on English dialects, the president called to his 
assistance the following specialists: Dr. J. Muir and Professor Eggeling, 
on Sanskrit; M. Chev. E. de Ujfalvy, on the Ugro-Finnish languages ; 
Dr. Ad. Neubauer, on Talmudical and Rabbinical literature; the Rev. 
A.H. Sayce, on Etruscan; R. N. Cust, Esq., on the non-Aryan languages 
of India; Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull, on the North American Indian 
: and announcing several forthcoming works, quotes from a 
private letter from Major J. W. Powell, in which the following classifi- 
“ation is recommended for the Shoshoni or Numa languages : — 
Wa-shak! i, Shoshoni proper. 
Dialect: Za-saw! -wi-hi, Shoshonis of Central Nevada. 
