"the simplification of many complexe and confuse ideas we 
maintain now in the fields of theory," 
Hemember for instance Professor Holmes address to the 
Anthropological Congress in the World's Hair, when he talk 
about the aboriginal languages, he referred to the question 
of the number of those languages in the three Americas, If we 
had previously organized the philological investigations through 
North, Central and South America we should have remarked per- 
haps that the number of the aboriginal languages is fewer; and. 
anticipating a personal theory, based upon my own inquires, 
that if not all, many of those languages are not far of a com- 
mon origin; and perhaps we shall find in not remote times, the 
unity of the original forms of the Inter -C ontinental wild lan- 
guages with tho.se differences, made necessary by the nature 
and general surrounding of each people. 
But I will not go so far in the confidence of my hopes • 
and I only would ask to you to toast congratulating our friend, 
professor Holmes, to who we compromise this evening to advance 
his work in Chicago for honor of the Science of the United States 
and of Himself, 
STANISLAO S. ZEBALLOS 
Washington, D • C* 
16th May 94 
