250 General Notes. [ March, 
ly appreciated by all Mexicologists. The number of Aztec terms 
contained in each of the two parts, Spanish-Aztec and Aztec- 
Spanish, cannot fall much shor of thirty thousand. The great 
scarcity of both editions (1565 and 1575) has raised its price 
rather high, but through Platzmann’s recent re-publication of the 
second edition linguists are now enabled to acquire this “ 
saurus ” at a very moderate figure. The new edition reproduces 
the work in fac-simile and bears the following title : “ Vocabu- 
lario de la Lengua Mexicana, compuesto por el P. Fr. Alonso 
de Molina, Publicado de nuevo por Julio Platzmann, Leip-- 
zig, B. G. Teubner, 1880, Quarto.” The volume is dedicated to 
the memory of the Empress Catharine II., of Russia, the first sov- 
ereign who encouraged linguistic researches within the limits of 
her vast domains in Europe and Northern Asia. 
Tue Inpo-CuinEsE AND Oceanic Races.—Mr. A. H. Keene, of 
whose work the Naturatist has frequently made mention, com- 
mences in the number of ature for Dec. 30, a series of papers 
on the Indo-Chinese and Oceanic Races—types and affinities. 
The following scheme will be followed in the discussion : 
A. DARK TYPES. 
I. Necritos: Aetas; Andamanese; Samangs; Kalangs; Karons. 
entral branch—Papfians proper. 
II. PaptAns: {we Western pea -Papfians, West (Al 
Eas —Sub-Paptians, East (Melanesians. 
III. AUSTRAL: poses comme tS: 
B. CAUCASIAN TYPE (Fair and Brown). 
IV. CONTINENTAL BRANCH: Khmér or Cambojan Gro 
V. OcEANIC BRANCH: Indonesian and Sawaiori or Kenia Folynesian Groups. 
C. MONGOLIAN TYPE (Yellow and Olive Brown). 
VI. CoNTINENTAL BRANCH: Indo-Chinese Group. 
VII. OcEANIC BRANCH: Malayan Groups. 
Tue Pawnee Inprans.—Mr. John B. Dunbar, of Deposit, New 
York, contributes to the November number of the Magazine of 
American History a paper of twenty-four pages upon the Pawnee 
Indians, describing their trade, food, feasts, hunting, war and 
medicine. The list of food plants and the discussion of the prac- 
tice of medicine are especially good. It has been asserted in very 
high quarters that the Indian of this continent had primarily no 
knowledge of the medicinal properties of herbs aside from incan- 
tation. It might be well for Mr. Dunbar to give this question @ 
little attention, Sooner or later some scholar or group of scholars 
will publish an encyclopaedia of our Indian tribes, and for this 
work such monographs, as the one under consideration are a 
necessary preparation, 
THE WESTERN RESERVE Society.—From our esteemed corres- 
pondent, Col. Charles Whittlesey, we have received a tract en 
titled “The Universal Indian Problem,” and No. 50 of the pam- 
