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...ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. "The Maya Hieroglyphs of Central America," Mr. C. P. Bowditch '63. (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
Other lectures under the auspices of the Anthropological Society will be given on December 2, when Dr. Franz Boas, of Columbia University, will speak on "Characteristics of Primitive Culture," and on December 7, when Mr. C. P. Bowditch '63 will speak on "The Maya Hieroglyphs of Central America." The latter lecture will be illustrated...
...American Indian," by Dr. Clark Wisler, of Columbia; November 16, "Ghost Worship and Buddhism in India," by Dr. J. H. Woods '87, instructor of Indic Philology; December 2. "The Characteristics of Primitive Culture," by Dr. Franz Boas, of Columbia, and head of the Field Columbian Expedition; December 7, "The Maya Hieroglyphs," by Mr. C. P. Bowditch...
...Cole 2G., Austin Teaching Fellow, will leave Cambridge today in order to carry on some explorations, for the benefit of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, among the ruins of the Maya Indians at Chichen--Itza, Yucatan. Mr. Cole intends to join Mr. E. H. Thompson, who is now in Yucatan carrying on archaeological explorations for the Peabody Museum. The object of the expedition is to make a general collection of such zoological specimens as may be of value to the Museum...
...highlands of Guatemala by Mr. Gordon of the Museum. In past years he has been engaged in excavations in the ruined cities of Guatemala, Quirigua and San Augustin, and Copan in Honduras, and during the past winter he has been living in the highlands, among the remnants of the Maya race, the founders of these cities, in order to discover traditions in regard to the history of the cities and the reason they were deserted. These attempts have been without results. The articles of dress, however, which he collected are rare specimens of ethnological interest, as the dress as well...