1884.] Microscopy and Histology. 1177 
shelters yielded inscriptions and pictographs to the explorer, who 
considers their style as related to the pictography of the Orinoco 
and Apure countries. Fragments of pottery, hatchets made of 
shells and stones are profusely scattered around the ancient en- 
campments of the native Arubans. 
The name of Curaçao island seems to be the Tupi word coar- 
acy’, curassé, suv, in Guarani, quaraçi ; Aruba resembles the 
name of a shrub which is called in French Guyana arude. Nico- 
las Fort y Roldan, in his “Cuba indigena” (Madrid, 1881), p. 
125, gives arabo as the name of a plant as heard on one 
t Antilles. 
The Papiamento—On account of the peculiar selection and 
association of their ingredients, and the grammatic changes 
which the terms are undergoing, the jargons or medley languages 
are now being studied by linguists with the interest they deserve. 
The best known jargons of America are the conversational Tupi 
or “lingoa geral,” the various negro jargons of Guyana, of the 
West Indies and of Louisiana, the Chinook jargon, etc.; in the 
early stages of their formation English, Turkish and Neopersian 
Were jargons also. The main ingredient of Papiamento, which is 
spoken upon Aruba, Curagao and the rest of this island 
is the Spanish language; then comes Dutch, the language of the 
Netherlandish rulers, and least in frequency are the words of 
Indian origin. 
The character of this medley speech will best appear from 
a Conversational Guide, which has been published at Curaçao, 
1876.—A. S. Gatschet. 
MICROSCOPY AND HISTOLOGY 
MYRTILLUS, A NEW DYE FOR ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE TISSUES. 
—Dr. M. Lavdowsky? recommends the juice of fresh huckleber- 
ries, Vaccinium (Gaylussacia Gray) myrtilus, as an excellent yed 
ium, especially for the caryokinetic figures and the cel- 
eparation—The newly picked berries should be vane in 
Water, then the juice expressed and mixed with twice its volume 
1 * 
5 ined by Dr. C. O. WHITMAN, Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge, Mass. 
th. f. Mik. Anat., xxiii, pp 506-508. 
