The magazine of history with notes and queries, Vol. II, No. 5, November 1905Various
History
The magazine of history with notes and queries, Vol. II, No. 5, November 1905
Various
History -- Periodicals; United States -- History -- Periodicals
=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.
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