[7-+] "The Names of the Gods in the Kiche Myths of Central America." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. XIX., 1881. The terminal letter in both these words--"_chilan_," "_balam_,"--may be either "_n_" or "_m_," the change being one of dialect and local pronunciation. I have followed the older authorities in writing "_Chilan Balam_," the modern preferring "_Chilam Balam_." Senor Eligio Ancona, in his recently published "_Historia de Yucatan_," (Vol. I., page 240, note, Merida, 1878,) offers the absurd suggestion that the name "_balam_" was given to the native soothsayers by the early missionaries in ridicule, deriving it from the well-known personage in the Old Testament. It is surprising that Senor Ancona, writing in Merida, had never acquainted himself with the Perez manuscripts, nor with those in the possession of Canon Carrillo. Indeed, the most of his treatment of the ancient history of his country is disappointingly superficial. [10-*] For example, in the "_Registro Yucateco_," _Tome III._; "_Diccionario Universal de Historia y Geografia_," _Tome VIII._ (Mexico, 1855); "_Diccionario Historico de Yucatan_," _Tome I._ (Merida, 1866); in the appendix to Landa's "_Cosas de Yucatan_" (Paris, 1864), etc. The epochs, or _katuns_, of Maya history have been recently again analyzed by Dr. Felipe Valentini, in an essay in the German and English languages, the latter in the "Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 1880." [11-*] The Abbe's criticism occurs in the note to page 406 of his edition of Landa's "_Cosas de Yucatan_." [14-*] It is described at length by Don Crescencio Carrillo y Ancona, in his "_Disertacion sobre la Historia de la Lengua Maya_" (Merida, 1870). [14-+] "_Je dois declarer que l'examen dans tous leurs details du 'Codex Troano' et du 'Codex Peresianus' m'invite de la facon la plus serieuse a n'accepter ces signes, tout au moins au point de vue de l'exactitude de leur trace, qu'avec une certaine reserve._"--Leon de Rosny's "_Essai sur le Dechiffrement de l'Ecriture Hieratique de l'Amerique Centrale_," page 21 (Paris, 1876). By the "_Codex Peresianus_," he does not mean the "_Codice Perez_," but the Maya manuscript in the Bibliotheque[TN-4] Nationale. The identity of the names is confusing and unfortunate. [15-*] "The Manuscript Troano," published in _The American Naturalist_, August, 1881, page 640. This manuscript or codex was published in chromo-lithograph, Paris, 1879, by the French Government. [18-*] "_Declarar las necesidades y sus remedios._"--"_Relation de las Cosas de Yucatan_," page 160. Like much of Landa's Spanish, this use of the word "_necesidad_" is colloquial, and not classical. [18-+] A "_Medicina Domestica_," under the name of "Don Ricardo Ossado, (alias, _el Judio_,)" was published at Merida in 1834; but this appears to have been merely a bookseller's device to aid the sale of the book by attributing it to the "great unknown."