[II-3] Authorities on the Isthmian antiquities are not numerous. Mr Berthold Seemann claims to have been the first to discover stone sculptures near David in 1848, and he read a paper on them before the Archæological Institute of London in 1851. He also briefly mentions them in his _Voy. Herald_, vol. i., pp. 312-13, for which work drawings were prepared but not published. Some of the drawings were, however, afterwards printed in _Bollaert's Antiq. Researches in N. Granada_, (Lond., 1860,) and a few cuts of inscribed figures also inserted with farther description by Seemann in _Pim and Seemann's Dottings_, pp. 25-32. It is stated in the last-named work that M. Zeltner, French Consul at Panamá, whose private collection contained specimens from Chiriquí, published photographs of some of them with descriptive letter-press. Bollaert also wrote a paper on 'The Ancient Tombs of Chiriquí,' in _Amer. Ethno. Soc., Transact._, vol. ii., pp. 151, 159. On various occasions from 1859 to 1865, travelers or residents on the Isthmus, chiefly parties connected with the Panamá railway, sent specimens, drawings, and descriptions to New York, where they were presented to the American Ethnological Society, or exhibited before and discussed by that body at its monthly meetings, an account of which may be found in the _Hist. Mag._, vol. iii., p. 240, vol. iv., pp. 47-8, 113, 144, 176-7, 239-41, 274, 338, vol. v., pp. 50-2, vol. vi., pp. 119, 154, vol. ix., p. 158. A report on the Chiriquí antiquities by Dr Merritt was printed by the same society. The above, with slight mentions in _Cullen's Darien_, p. 38, from _Whiting and Shuman's Report on Coal Formations_, April 1, 1851, and in _Bidwell's Isthmus_, pp. 37-8, from _Hay's Report_, in _Powles' N. Granada_, are the only sources of information on the subject with which I am acquainted. [II-4] _Pim and Seemann's Dottings_, pp. 25, 28-31; _Seemann's Voy. Herald_, vol. i., pp. 312-13; _Hist. Mag._, vol. iv., p. 338. [II-5] _Hist. Mag._, vol. ix., p. 158. [II-6] _Id._, vol. iii., p. 240, vol. iv., pp. 47-8, 239-40. [II-7] Three statues presented by Messrs Totten and Center in 1860 were about two feet high, of a dark, hard stone, in human form with features and limbs distorted. Two of them had square tapering pedestals apparently intended to support the figures upright in the ground. _Id._, vol. iv., p. 144. [II-8] _Id._, vol. iv., pp. 239-40, 274. [II-9] _Hist. Mag._, vol. iv., pp. 144, 177, 240-1, 274. [II-10] _Seemann's Voy. Herald_, vol. i., p. 314. [II-11] _Cullen's Darien_, p. 38. [II-12] _Pim and Seemann's Dottings_, pp. 25-32; _Tate's Ancient British Sculptured Rocks_. [II-13] _Bidwell's Isthmus_, p. 37; _Hist. Mag._, vol. iv., p. 176. [II-14] 'A much higher antiquity must be assigned to these hieroglyphics than to the other monuments of America.' _Voy. Herald_, vol. i., p. 313. [II-15] _Hist. Mag._, vol. v., p. 50. [II-16] Vol. i., chap. vii. of this work.