[33]. The earliest publication I made on this subject was in an article on Pre-historic Archæology, contributed to The Iconographic Encyclopædia (Vol. II, p. 28, Philadelphia, 1886).
[34]. A possible exception may have been along the line of the Mississippi River, where a palæolithic workshop appears to have been discovered above St. Paul, by Miss Babbitt.
[35]. This Paper was read before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at its meeting in Cleveland, 1888.
[36]. See Foley, Des Trois Grandes Races Humaines, Paris, 1881.
[37]. Uralaltaische Völker und Sprachen, p. 167. I do not think that the verbal coincidences pointed out by Petitot in his Monographie des Déné Dindjé, and by Platzmann in his Amerikanisch-Asiatische Etymologien, merit serious consideration.
[38]. Brinton, in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, for 1885; Charencey, Mélanges de Philologie et Palaéographie Américaine, p. 80 (Paris, 1883). See also a later Essay in this volume.
[39]. This example of misdirected erudition may be seen in the Anales del Museo Nacional de Mexico. Tomo I.
[40]. Prof. Morse has also pointed out to me that the Mongolian arrow-release—one of the most characteristic of all releases—has been nowhere found on the American continent. This is an important fact, proving that neither as hunters nor conquerors did any stray Mongols leave a mark on American culture.
[41]. Hovelacque et Hervé, Anthropologie, pp. 231, 234, 236; and on the Inca bone, see Dr. Washington Matthews in the American Anthropologist, vol. II., p. 337.
[42]. In Verhandlungen der Berliner Anthrop. Gesellschaft, 1881–82.