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GARRICK MALLERY. 
83 plates and 209 figures. This important work, the result 
of the parallel line of research in which its author had been 
engaged, met with immediate recognition and praise. Fi¬ 
nally, the Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 
published in 1893 (1894), was devoted to Mallery’s completed 
work on one of his subjects of investigation. It was enti¬ 
tled, “ Picture-writing of the American Indians,” filling 807 
quarto pages, with 54 plates and 1,290 figures. This vol¬ 
ume, with its opulence of illustration, is a noble testimony 
to the tireless industry, ingenious research, and power of 
philosophical comparison of its writer. 
At the time of his death Mallery was preparing a treatise 
on the sign-language of the American Indians, intended to 
be a companion work to the “ Picture-writing ” last pub¬ 
lished. This, unfortunately, was left unfinished ; but it is 
understood that it will be completed and published by the 
care of the Bureau of Ethnology. 
In addition to the foregoing important and valuable 
series of writings, Mallery was the author of many erudite 
critical essays. In the Anthropological Society of this city, 
of which he was one of the founders and afterward president, 
some of these were read. Of these shorter ethnological writ¬ 
ings may be mentioned “ Manners and Meals,” 1888; “ Cus¬ 
toms of Courtesy,” 1890; “ Greetings and Gestures,” 1891. 
An essay entitled “ Israelite and Indian; a parallel in planes 
of culture,” 1889, which was published in the Popular Sci¬ 
ence Monthly, attracted much attention from its bold and 
ingenious comparison of two such widely dissimilar races, 
and a rather sharp controversy was the consequence. 
Colonel Mallery was at one time president of the Literary 
Society of Washington, and his graceful essays read at its 
meetings proved his wide acquaintance with the literature 
of his own and other countries. He was for many years a 
member of the general committee of this Society and in 1888 
was its president. His address on retiring from office had 
for its subject “ Philosophy and Specialties.” In it he insisted 
upon the importance of acquiring a correct and even elegant 
style of writing in scientific papers. His own compositions 
