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localities of each of the tribes mentioned, beginning with the Fuegians, 
and passing to the two races of Patago onians, the Araucarians of Chile, 
whom he identified with the Pehuenches, Huilliches and Aucas of the 
Pampas of Buenos Ayres, the Abipones, Tobas, Mocobis, Ta Mata- 
guayos = Machicuys of the Gran Chaco or region between Paraguay 
and = 
hen ad the Guaranis and Payaguas of Paraguay, the Ataca- 
giving many facts re especting the character of their various languages. 
He adverted to the extensive area of the Guarani tongue, which extends 
substantially from the La Plata to the Oronoco, us dioe a great portion 
of Brazil and most of the basin of the Amazon. He stated that he had 
found the Quichua language Spoken in the centre of the geste: Repub- 
lic, in the province of Santia go del Estero, eight hundred miles from the 
nearest point in Bolivia where the same language is now spoken. Con- 
Sequently Mr. Bliss considered ny province to have been an outlying 
colony of the empire of the Inca 
The languages of the Indians t the Chaco are extremely meagre, and 
none of them exceeds about a thousand root-words. 
Mr. Bliss stated that the principle of reduplication was largely con- 
cerned in the formation of the language of the Incas, and that he had 
collected in Bolivia more than three hundred geographical names formed 
in this way, as Mocomoco, Coro-coro, Quilli-quilli, and cited as a double 
i e stated 
Within two hundred years the Guarani language had undergone an 
complete change, so that instead of being now, as formerly, made up from 
monosyllabic radicals, it is quite as polysyllabic as most other Indian 
tongues. 
Mr. E. S. Morse's paper “ oe the Early Stages of Brachiopods " was re- 
ported in the September num 
DLO C thingy wida pi a on the “ Discovery of the erae 
le Horae among the Ancient Ruins of Central America," the title of 
ich was inadvertently omitted in our list of papers presented wy the 
ciation. 

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"Vacvanre LIBRARY ror SaLe.— The Library of the late Dr. B. F. 
Sivar f St. Louis, consisting principally of works on Geology and 
Paleontology, and believed to be very perfect so far as relates to North 
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| B T! s » is Mastigobrium trilobatw: trilobatum Nees., and the bit 
aot. light wood” is mpi Dy the Peziza | eruginosa, a verdigris-green colored fungus 
Uncommon in woods, —J. L. R. 

