LIFE-FOKM IN ART. 



349 



h. Rattles of rattlesnakes. The letter is placed between two figures of the same 

 value. 



i. Unknown. 

 J. Unknown. 



I. Mouth with teeth. 



7n. Human foot with rattlesnake — rattle ornament as anklet. 



n. Serpentine curve. ■ 



o. Unknown symmeti'ical design. 



Such are some of the conclusions to-be derived from the study of the life-form 

 in art ! We pause in the midst of an endless theme, with the mind thronged with 

 strange shapes that arrange themselves into groups of imperfectly-defined limits. 



As we acquaint ourselves with these attempts of man to record his thoughts in 

 carvings and painted images, we are partakers of the pleasures of the naturalist. 

 Man in establishing fashions of love-making and house-building is an object ot the 

 same sort of interest as the bird or the bee. The method of study adopted in each 

 case should be the same, however we may be influenced by importance of the results 

 thereby obtained. 



Fig-. 185. 



Specimen of the cliaracters of tlie Dresden Codex. 



ERRATA. 



Fig. 2, p. 285, is most probably the OdontopJiorus of Tschudi. 



For Mephistoplioles on p. 298, read Mephistopheles. 



For Thackaray, p. 300, read Thackeray. 



For Fig. 25, p. 300, read 25a. 



For figures on twelfth line, p. 302, read fingers. 



For Palencque, p. 315, read Palenque. 



For to on fifth line, p. 315, read and. 



For impossihle, ninth line, p. 315, read possible. 



The illustrations of this Memoir have been executed by the photo-electrotype process, by Messrs. F. A. VVcn- 

 deroth & Co., of Philadelphia, from drawings by Mr. Hermann Faber. 



A. P. S. — VOL. XV. 4a. 



