[4-*] M. L’Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, in his _Histoire des nations civilisées du Mexique_ (Paris, 1859, vol. I. Preface), speaks of M. Aubin as the translator of the manuscript “_Historia Tulteca_,” as the author of the _Mémoire sur l’écriture figurative et la peinture didactique des anciens Mexicains_, in which he reconstructed the system of Mexican figurative writing almost entirely, and as the present owner of what remains of the celebrated Boturini collection, and of many other historical treasures, gathered in his various travels. [5-*] “In the Congress of Americanists held last July at Nancy, France, M. Léon de Rosny delivered a masterly address on the Maya hieroglyphics. He critically analyzed the attempts at decypherment by Brasseur de Bourbourg and H. de Charency. The Bishop de Landa first discovered a clue to their meaning. He made out seventy-one signs, which number Rosny has increased to one hundred and thirty-two. Rosny has also determined the order in which they should be read, as a rule from left to right, but in exceptional cases from right to left.”--[The Popular Science Monthly, New York, May, 1876, pp. 118-119.] [7-*] _Geographia de las lenguas y carta ethnografica de Mexico._ By M. Orosco y Berra, Mexico, 1864. Introduction p. X. _La Situation actual de la Raza indigena de México._ By Don Francisco Pimentel, Mexico, 1864, Dedication. [7-†] Views of Nature, page 131. [8-*] Conquest of Mexico, New York, 1843, vol. III., page 404. [8-†] Description of an ancient city near Palenque, page 6. [9-*] _Quadro descriptivo y comparativo de las lenguas indígenas de México_, by Francisco Pimentel, Mexico, 1865, p. 3. “The Maya is also still the spoken language of the Island of Carmen, the town of Monte Christo in Tobasco, and Palenque in Chiapas. With so much tenacity have the Indians preserved this language that to-day they speak no other, so that the whites find themselves obliged to learn it in order to make themselves understood.” [9-†] _Geographia de las Lenguas, y Carta ethnographica de México_, by Manuel Orosco y Berra, México, 1864, p. 156. [10-*] _Los trés siglos de la dominacion Espanola en Yucatan._ By Fr. Diego Lopez de Cogolludo,--Madrid, 1688.--Mérida, 1845, Lib. IV., Appendix A.