913 ANTIQUITIES

Butterworth, Hezekiah, ed. The Mysterious Races. (See his Young Folks’ History of America, chap. 1, 13–28, Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., 1881, illustrated.)

Field Columbian Museum, Chicago. List and prices of publications issued by Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, U. S. A. [1904.] 12^o. 9 pp.

See serial Nos. 8, 16, 23, 28, relating to archæology of Mexico, Peru and Yucatan.

Hewett, Edgar L. Antiquities of the southwest and their preservation. By Edgar L. Hewett [of the] National Museum, Washington. (In The Magazine of History, ... New York, 1, No. 5 [May, 1905]: 291–300.)

Holmes, W. H. Report ... on the Congress of Americanists, held at Stuttgart, Germany, Aug. 18–23, 1904. (In Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, quarterly issue, vol. 47, No. 1558, pp. 391–395.)

Contains programme of the congress, with titles of addresses; also a list of publications, “a set of 75 bound volumes relating mainly to American Archæology and Ethnology, published by the Smithsonian Institution and its two bureaus—the National Museum and the Bureau of American Ethnology.”

McAdam, William. Records of ancient races in the Mississippi Valley; being an account of some of the pictographs, sculptured hieroglyphs, symbolic devices, emblems and traditions of the prehistoric races of America, with some suggestions as to their origin. With cuts and views illustrating over three hundred objects and symbolic devices. St. Louis: C. R. Barnes Publishing Co., 1887. 120 pp., 8vo.

Based on much personal research by the author, who died about April 16, 1895, on which date the Alton (Illinois) Daily Republican printed a two-column obituary notice, he having been a resident of that city.

The “Old Mill” at Newport: A new study of an old puzzle. Scribner’s Monthly, 17, No. 5 (March, 1879): 632–641.

Makes some architectural comparisons of the tower with other similar ancient structures, in an attempt thus to solve the problem of the former’s origin.

Prescott, William H. Origin of the Mexican civilization—analogies with the Old World. (See his Conquest of Mexico, 3, appendix, part 1: 309–352, Philadelphia: David McKay, 1892. [‘Preliminary notice,’ pp. 309–310].)

“The civilization of Anahuac was, in some degree, influenced by that of Eastern Asia; ... the discrepancies are such as to carry back the communication to a very remote period,” extract, p. 352. Accompanied by very extensive notes and citations of authorities.

Thomas, Cyrus. Central American hieroglyphic writing. (In annual report of the ... Smithsonian Institution ... for the year ending June 30, 1903, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904; see pp. 705–721, illustrated.)

U. S. Smithsonian Institution. Classified list of Smithsonian publications, available for distribution, April, 1904. Washington: published by the Institution, 1904. (No. 1461.) 29 pp. 8^o. See pp. 6–8, Archæology.

U. S. Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. List of publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, with index to authors and titles. Extract from the twentieth annual report of the Bureau. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903. 26 pp. [paged cxcix-ccxxiv], 29½ cm.