On the present state of our knowledge of the Mexican and Centro-American hieroglyphic writing, 1902.

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On the present state of our knowledge of the Mexican and Centro-American hieroglyphic writing, 1902.

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Corrected draft of an address given "before this most illustrious assembly." Handwritten in pen with pencil corrections. Discusses the pictography and hieroglyphic writing of the Mexican and Central American Indian tribes. It also mentions several codices, such as the Codex Dresdensis Maya and the Codex Vaticanus Latinus 3773, authors, and the use of astronomy in the Mayan calendar.

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Cornell University Library

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