Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 1 (of 8) / Aboriginal America

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[1936] Its publications began in 1665. Cf. synopsis in Scudder’s Catalogue, pp. 26-27. Cf. C. A. Alexander on the origin and history of the Royal Society, in Smithsonian Rept., 1863.

[1937] Some of the local societies deal to some extent in American subjects; e. g., the Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society, begun in 1885.

[1938] Not to be confounded with The Ethnological Journal, vol. i., 1848-49, and vol. ii., 1854, incomplete; and The Ethnological Journal, 1 vol., 1865-66.

[1939] Cf. J. R. Bartlett on an Antwerp meeting, in Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., 1868.

[1940] Such periodicals as Nature and Popular Science Review show how anthropological science is attracting attention.

[1941] See Scudder’s Catalogue.

[1942] The third volume of Bastian’s Culturländer des Alten America (Berlin, 1886) comprises “Nachträge und Ergänzungen aus den Sammlungen des Ethnologischen Museums.”

[1943] Congrès des Américanistes, Compte Rendus, Nancy, ii. 271.

[1944] Cf. Oscar Montelius, Bibliographie de l’archéologie préhistorique de la Suède pendant le 19e siècle, suivie d’un exposé succinct des sociétés archéologiques suédoises (Stockholm, 1875).

[1945] It is described by Tylor in his Anahuac, ch. 9; by Brocklehurst in his Mexico to-day, ch. 21; by Bandelier in the American Antiquarian (1878), ii. 15; in Mayer’s Mexico; and in the summary of information (fifteen years old, however) in Bancroft’s Mexico, iv. 553, etc., with references, p. 565, which includes references to the Uhde collection at Heidelberg, the Christy collection in London (Tylor), that of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia (Trans., iii. 570), not to name the Mexican sections of the large museums of America and Europe. Henry Phillips, Jr. (Proc. Amer. Philosophical Soc., xxi. p. 111) gives a list of public collections of American Archæology. There are some private collections mentioned in the Archives de la Soc. Amér. de France, Nouv. Ser., vol. i. A. de Longperier’s Notice des Monuments dans la Salle des Antiquités Américaines (Paris, 1880) covers a part of the great Paris exhibition of that year. Something is found in E. T. Stevens’s Flint Chips, a guide to prehistoric archæology as illustrated in the Blackmore Museum [at Salisbury, England], London, 1870.