1881. ] The Manuscript Troano, 625 
[Under the word anthropology, pages 437-444, will be found a grand collec- 
tion of titles and journals. A list of abbreviations occupies pp. 1-126, With- 
out exception this work is the most minute specimen of cataloguing in exis- 
tence 
Mason, O. T.—For Anthropological Summaries. Smithson. Rep., 1879, 428-475. 
Am. Naluralist, May, and Notes in each number from Jan.—December. 
Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass. Twelfth and Thirteenth Annual Reports, 
. 11, Nos. 3 and 4. 
Popular Science Monthly. N. York, D. Appleton & Co. 
Ruers, Wo. J.—Visitors’ Guide to the Smithsonian Institution and the National 
Museum. Washington. 
Saint Louis Academy of Natural Sciences, Nathaniel Holmes, Secretary. 
Smithsonian Institution.. Annual Report, Contributions to knowledge. 
Besides these, there are innumerable sources of publication in 
our country of which anthropologists are willing to avail them- 
selves, and in which they seem willing to hide their productions. 
All of these that have any value, however, find mention in the 
Index Medicus, or in the Index to Periodical Literature. Pam- 
phlets and brochures should be sent to the editor of the Depart- 
ment of Anthropology in the AMERICAN NATURALIST, addressed 
to 1305 Q st., N. W., Washington, D. C. 
:0: 
THE MANUSCRIPT TROANO.' 
BY PROFESSOR CYRUS THOMAS. 
This manuscript was found about the year 1865 at Madrid, 
Spain, by the Abbe Brasseur de Bourbourg while on a visit to the 
Library of the Royal Historical Academy and named by him 
“Manuscript Troano,” in honor of its possessor Don Juan de Tro 
y Ortolano, 
So far as I am aware nothing more is known in reference to its 
history ; we are not even informed by its last owner where or how. 
he obtained it. In ordinary cases this would be sufficient to 
arouse our suspicions as to its genuineness, but in this case the 
work itself will dispel all such suspicions. ' 
his work was reproduced in fac-simile by a chromo-lithographic 
Process, by the Commission Scientifique du Mexique under the 
auspices of the French Government, Brasseur de Bourbourg 
being the editor. 
_ The original is written on a strip of Maguey paper about four- 
* Extracts from a paper now being prepared by Professor Thomas for the Bureau 
of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution. 
