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tion to the proper assignment of the cardinal point symbols. In 
the course of this discussion, I enter at some length into the 
independently by one or two of the European students, whose 
Papers on these codices will shortly be published. I am now 
Satisfied that I am able to explain and illustrate the use and sig- 
nificance of nearly all the numerals in the Dresden and other 
Maya codices. By means of this discovery, the reality of which 
characters can be restored and errors in the reproductions de- 
tected. This discovery shows that these calendar systems are 
Than simpler than they have been supposed to be—Cyrus 
homas. 
bread made of acorn meal. They may be very properly termed 
individua] ” pans, each of them holding enough meal to bake 
a good-sized corn-cake, with brown crust all around. They are 
oeni aed of lapisollaris, or of a soft schist not subject to fire- i 
S. The dimensions are as follows, although the outline isa 
very irregular oval - 
77,160.—Length, 314 inches; width, 2% inches; height, 3 inch. 
77,161.—Léngth, 34 inches; width, 31 inches; height, 134 inches. 
i anth, 5 inches; width, 334 inches; ee I Me PR 
2493.—Length, inches; width, inches; height 2 inches. 
44 34 eight, 13¢ inches. 
`. 77,164.—Length, 63% inches; width, 5 14 inches; hei 
thie, the exception of 77,163, of schist, they are from Ẹ to 1 
i k. š omparing A sie | 
beer individual baking pans. 
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