310 General Notes. [ May, 
arrow-points, knives, “skinning-knives,” scrapers, hammers, “chisels 
and gouges,” drilling stones, “ breastplates,’ “ gorgets,” “ banner-stones,” 
“sculptures,” pipes, pottery, paint-cups, hoes and shovels, “corn mills,” 
mortars and pestles, “poggamoggons” and net-sinkers, “ flaking-ham- 
mers,” and polishing tools. There is manifested throughout the article 
a commendable zeal for North American archeology, though, perhaps, 
too great a fondness for classification and inventing new names, an un- 
due confidence in the ascertained use of certain doubtful forms, and, 
above all, a too hasty adoption of the generalizations of some English 
and French archeologists, with reference to the order of culture on our 
continent. But as we need some adventurous spirits to peer into dark 
places, these venial faults must not deter us from commending the zeal 
of Dr. Abbott, and bidding all such “to go up and possess the land.” 
The next meeting of the Congrés International des Americanistes 
will be held at Luxemburg, September 10-13, 1877. The following is 
the programme in full: — 
History. The civil legislation of Mexico under the Aztecs and of 
Peru under the Incas compared. Critical examination of the sources 
of the history of Central America. Discovery and colonization of 
Brazil. When and why the New World was called America. 
Archeology. General characteristics of the Maya architecture in 
Yucatan. Of the use of copper in ante-Columbian America. The 
mound-builders, their origin, antiquity, civilization, and history. 
Linguistics. Peculiar characteristics of the Tapi-Guarani family. 
The grammar of American languages compared with that of the Uralo- 
Altaic languages. Eskimo dialects compared with other languages of 
America and with those of Asia. i 
Paleography. Decipherment of Maya inscriptions and manuscripts. 
Of the phonetic element in Mexican writing. To what period of Amer- 
ican history do the paintings called Mexican hieroglyphics belong ? To 
indicate, as far as possible, the date of the most ancient documents 
known in that writing. To show what influence was exerted on ‘the 
development and use of the Mexican figurative paintings by the arrival 
of the Spaniards. : ‘ 
Anthropology and Ethnography. Of the antiquity of man in America. 
Of the tradition of the deluge in America, and particularly in Mexico. 
Ethnographic classification of the inhabitants of Guiana. : 
M. Bertrand contributes to the Bulletin de la Société d’ Anthropologre, 
1876, pages 100 and 173, papers upon the first Celtic tribes known to 
the Greeks, who are the only people to mention the Celts previously 
to 200 B. c. Following up the theme, on page 128 of the same volume, 
M. Gustave Lagneau has a paper upon the Ethnic Distinction between 
the Celts and the Gaels, and their Migrations to the South of the Alps. 
Whatever comes from the pen of this distinguished ‘author is worthy of 
the highest commendation. The copious references to authorities are a 
