1881.] During the year 1880. 621 
The following works have appeared during 1880: 
AcostTA, J. DE—The natural and moral history of the Indies. Reprinted from the 
English edition by Edward Grimshaw, 1604, and edited with notes and an in 
troduction by Cl. R. Markham. London, Hackluyt Soc., 1880, I v., pp. 295, 
hart, 8vo. 
dlaciere: nero S.—The Shoshones or Snake Indians; their religion, supersti- 
tions and manners. Smithson. Rep., 1879, 328. 
Dunsar, J. B. (Deposit, N. Y.)—The Pawnee Indians. Mag. Am. Hist., April, 
ov., 1880, See also on the decrease of the Indians. As. City Rev., Sept. 
Flower, W. H.—The American Races. Brit. M. $, London, 1880, I, 549, 577; 
616, 
Havarp, V.—French and Indian half-breeds. Smithson Rep., 1879. 
IcAZBALCETA, dae Garcia (Mexico)—Historia de los Mexicanos por sus pintu- 
ras. An. us. Nac. de Mexico, 11, 85-106. 
LEGGE, ww. aseye coaik and her “fadian tribes, Canadian Month., Aug., 
1880, p. 137-149. 
Lemty, H. a —Among the Arrapahoes. Harper's Mag., March. 
Narragansett tribe of Indians. Providence, E. L. Freeman & Co., 1880. Pamph. 
PP: 92, Ovo. 
eae ‘ ierirnaen A.—Camps in the Caribees. Boston, Lee & Shepard, 1 vol., 
Vieni F. W.—The Indians of California. Bull. Essex Inst., xt, Mar. 1, 1880. 
Rey, PHILIPPE MArtus—Etude anthropologique sur les Botocudos. Paris, 1880. 
RIALLE, GIRARD DE—Les peuples de l'Afrique et de ar gagli Bibliotheque 
Utile, Vol. rv. Paris, Bailiers & Cie, 1880, p 
Royce, C. C.—An aged into the history an one of the Shawnee Indians. 
Tr. Anthrop Soc., Washington, 1, 94. 
SHEA, JoHn GILMARY—A description of Louisiana. By Father Louis Hennepin, I. 
. Vi. Linguistic Anthropology.—A linguist is not necessarily an 
anthropologist; indeed, a philologist, or one versed in the com- 
parative study of language, may prosecute his researches in such 
a manner as to fall short of the meaning of the term. Linguistic 
anthropology is the study of language, first in its origin, as the 
medium of communicating thought, emotion and volition. In 
this sense animals have language. In the second place, it takes 
into consideration the evolution and the elaboration of language 
to keep pace with human progress. Thirdly, there are genera 
and species of language, that is to say, there are summa genera, 
or great divisions, which are separable into stocks, tongues and 
dialects. It is the design of the anthropologists to comprehend 
all the languages of the world in a vast scheme as the botanist 
groups his plants or the zodlogist his animal specimens. In order 
to accomplish this end it is necessary to become acquainted with 
the plan of structure of every language on earth. It is for this 
Purpose, and not for their commercial value, that so much pains is 
