444 Recent Literature. - [May, 
academy, which only hears of them at the next meeting as a mat- 
ter of history! The academy is thus made responsible for any 
report that a committee of paid employees of a department may 
choose to make respecting that bureau. The situation is such 
“that no member of the academy can wish it to continue. The 
reflections which the world can justly make on its position ought 
not to be possible. 
As a remedy for this fundamental evil, we propose the follow- 
ing changes in the constitution of the academy : 
1. Not more than one-half of the members of the National 
Academy -shall be paid employees of the Government. 
_ 2, The president of the academy shall be selected from those i 
members who are not paid employees of the Government. | . 
~ 3. Committees selected to report on the efficiency of a, Gov- 
à ernment bureau, shall not embrace any employees of that bureau. 
a 4. The committees shall be selected by the president and 
a 5 council, which shall also approve the reports of committees be- 
~ -fore they are sent to Congress. 
Ye 5. The members of the council who are not such ex officio, 
) shall be selected from the different classes of the academy as tol-. 
ae lows: One from the anthropological class; two from the biologi- 
~ ¢al; two from the physical ; and one from the applied class. 
5. For convenience of reference and selection the membership 
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RECENT LITERATURE. 
an THE ANNALS OF THE CaKcuiguets.—The Cakchiquel tribe ot 
Indians forms one of the more interesting portions of the Maya 
of the academy shall be divided into four classes as follows: z 
Anthropology, embracing philosophy, pure mathematics and 
anthropology in the limited sense; Biology, including the 
biological sciences and psychology; Physics, including astron- A 
omy, physics, chemistry and geology, without palæontology ; , 
and Applied science. The proportion of membership of eac 
should be .15 p. c., .35 p. c., -35 p. c, and .15 : 
7. In order that the members of the academy shall be more or a 
less independent of Government places, they should be salaried; 1 
-1000 per annum for members; $1500 for members. of : 
_ council, and $5000 for the president.—C. | q 
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z The Annals of the Cakchiquels. The original text, with a translation, notes "i 
introductio DANIEL G. BRINTON, M.D. Philadelphia, 1885, 8vo, VI 
a 34 pages.. (Forms No. 6 of the editor’s Library of Aboriginal Literature. 5 
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