TABLE OF CONTENTS.

page Introduction .... i

I. On the Ancient Languages of France and Spain. Read before the Philological Society June 22. 1855 1

II. On the Ethnology and Civilization of the Ancient Britons. Read before the Ethnological Society July 8. 1857 26

III. Suggestions respecting the Nationality and Language of the Ancient Etruscans. Read before the Ethnological Society December 9. 1857 54

IV. Ethnological Notices of the Philippine Islands and Observations respecting the Malays. Read before the Ethnological Society June 6. 1855 68

V. On the Probable Origin of the American Indians with particular reference to that of the Caribs. Read before the Ethnological Society March 15. 1854 87

VI. Supplementary Notices of the American Indians especially the Mayas, the Caribs, the Arrawaks and the Mosquitos. Read before the Ethnological Society May 14. 1856 124

VII. Hints on the Formation of a New English Dictionary. Read before the Philological Society May 20. 1858 153

VIII. Question of the Supposed lost Tribes of Israel, with Appendices on the six days of the Creation, and on the chronology of the World. Read before the British association at Liverpool September. 26. 1854 164

Note. I. Respecting the Basques 214

Note II. Respecting traces of Phœnician Civilization to be found in Central America 216