[23]. See Howse, Grammar of the Cree Language, p. 143, sqq.

[24]. This question is discussed in more detail in the next essay.

[25]. L’Homme Americain, Tome I, p. 126. The tribe is the Guarayos, an offshoot of the Guaranis.

[26]. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 1884, p. 181.

[27]. Since this address was delivered Mr. H. T. Cresson has reported the finding of chipped implements made of argillite in a deposit of mid-glacial age on the banks of the Delaware River—Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. vol. xxiv; and portions of two skeletons completely converted into limonite have been exhibited at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, from a deposit in Florida, below one containing the remains of the extinct giant bison.

[28]. I have discussed this fully in a paper in the Proceedings of the Amer. Philosoph. Soc. for 1887, entitled “On an Ancient Human Footprint from Nicaragua.”

[29]. Man must have descended from the catarrhine division of the anthropoids, none of which occur in the New World. See Darwin, The Descent of Man, p. 153.

[30]. Address at the British Association for the Adv. of Science, 1887.

[31]. His article, which was first printed in the North American Review, 1870, may be found in Beach’s Indian Miscellany, p. 158 (Albany, 1877).

[32]. The subject of an address before the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1888, with revision.