gI4 General Notes. [September, 
dog possessed varieties passing irregularly with crossing of char- 
acteristics between the wolves, jackals and foxes. If it can be 
shown that these varieties were in part expanded over the globe 
before the intervention of man, it will be settled that it is vain to 
make the domestic dog-descent from this or that related species. 
H. de Charencey. De la conjugaison dans les langues de la 
famille Maya Quichée. (Extraits du Muséon.) Louvain. The nat- 
uralist and the philologist in their classifications accept the same 
criterium of perfection, it is the principal of the /ocalization of 
Junctions. The idiom which best distinguishes grammatical cate- 
gories, not confounding, for example the noun with the verb, has 
preéminence. In the study of this subject of differentiation we 
ve to examine a language in every particular, great progress 
being made in one direction, and that ofttimes from outside influ- 
ences, while the greatest simplicity remains in other particulars. 
M. Charencey regards monosyllabism as the simplest linguistic 
form, while agglomeration and inflection are subsequent stages. 
It seems to be nearer to the truth that monosyllabism and inflec- 
tion are literary effects in Speech both referable to earlier forms, 
perhaps agglutinative. M. Charencey devotes 130 pages to the 
discussion of the method in which the Maya language provides 
for the parts of the verb as known in the French languages. 
Bulletin of the Brookville Society of Natural History, No. 1, 
published by the society. Richmond, J. M. Coe, pp. 45. Mr. E. 
R. Quick describes the stone mounds on the Whitewater. 
Archeological Institute of America. Sixth annual report, 
1884-85, presented at the annual meeting of the council of the 
institute, Boston, May 9, 1885. Cambridge, John Wilson & Son, 
pp. 48. Among the regulations adopted October 11, 1884, some 
are of general interest, as for example: i 
1. The Archæological Institute consists of a number of affili- 
ated societies. 
: Mexico. The remainder of the pamphlet is given to a recital of 
~ the institute’s successes at Assos and in its school of classical 
studies at Ath 
~ a Notice of some recently discovered effigy mounds, by T. H. 
Lewis, from Science, No. 106, 1885. Mr. Lewis has surveyed 
twenty-five effigy mounds in Minnesota, one in Iowa and ninety- 
