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other neio
Gas Lines
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The new
series of probable
hydrogen
Pappis most
This
subordinate
type, the lines of the principal series not yet having been identified
8. There is evidence which points to a higher temperature for ^ Pappis than for Bellatrix. 9. The behaviour of certain lines suggests that Bellatrix may be taken as a type of the hottest stars, while the behaviour of others seems to indicate that Orionis should be regarded as a star of the very highest temperature, exception being made oE f" Puppis. There are not yet sufficient data to enable a final statement to be made.
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''A
Maya Calendar Inscription, interpreted by Goodman's By Alfred P. Maudslay. Commiuiicated by Keceived April 2, Read F. DuoAKE GoDMAN, F.R.S.
Tables."
June
17, 1897.
[Introductory Note.
of the Maya Calendar is chiefly derived from 1566) of Diego de Landa, Bishop of Yucatan, who only gave some account of the divisions of time in use among Mayas, but also copied, somewhat roughl^r, in his manuscript
Our knowledge
(a. D.
writings
the not
the
the
employed to represent the eighteen named months, and the twenty named days into which each month was divided. Landa's statements are, however, by no means clear, and there has been much discussion both as to their correctness in themselves and moreover, it as to the interpretation which has been given to them has been found difficult in some iuvstanceis to identify the day and month signs given by him with those used in the Dresden Codex and the few Maya manuscripts which have been preserved, and still more difficult to identify them with the signs used in the carved inscripsigns
;
tions.
is
made
of a recently
discovered inscription, by the aid of calendar tables prepared by Mr. J. T. G-oodman, and published with an (Explanatory essay in the
logical
These tables consist of a chronoand an annual cak^ndar. The chronological calendar is based on the Ahau, a period of 360 days, and is divided thus
*
20 davs 18 chuens
1 cliuen
,....*..
* It is unfortunate that the ahau, or period of 3(30 days, bears the same name as one of the twenty days of the Maya month, and that the cliuen^ or twenty-day period, bears the name of another day of the month.
VOL. LXII.
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Mr. A. P. Maudslay,
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Calendar Insmption
1 katuTi
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grand era
is
named
lUayeb) of
five days.
The
from
,1
tv^enty
named days
if tlie
it,
of the
month
1 to 13, so that
attached to
numbered continuously month has the number the month v^dll be numbered
are
will be
7 (13 -f 7
20),
and the
nnm-
ibered 8,
and so
on.
There are fifty-two annual calendars in a calendar round, and at end of the 52nd year the series is repeated. All the dates and reckonings found on the monuments which can ;be made out by the aid of these tables are expressed in Ahaus, Katuns, &c., and not in years but Mr, Goodman maintains that the trae year was known to the Mayas, and that it is by the concurrent nse of the chronological and annnal tables that the dates carved on ithe monuments can be properly located in the Maya Calendar. All the dates which have as yet come nnder notice fall within the .three Great Cycles, numbered hj Mr. Goodman the 53rd, 54th, and
?the
;
;55th.
The following extract from an article in Nature (Jiily 8, 1897) plves a good example of the manner in which a date is expressed : " I called attention, some years ago, to the fact that the greater number of the carved inscriptions commenced with easily recognised
*
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series of glyphs
^alled
with numerals or faces attached to them, which I Goodman now shows that the Initial
cSK^a ^^zQrg g
(1)
(5)
The Great Cycle sign. (2) The Cycle. (3) The Katun. (4) The Ahau. (8) The named month. The Clmen. (7) The named day. (6) The Day.
intei'preted
hy Goodman^s Tables,
69
As has been long known, each bar counts as five, and each dot as a (The roundish, marks under the glyphs are not part of the unit.
numerical
series.)
"The
'
Day
:
signs denote a
full
count
of those periods.
(1.)
(2.)
(3.) (4.)
(5.) (6,)
reads
54th
9th
great cycle,
cycle*
15th
'
katun.
'
Full count
ahaus,
Full count
'
chuens,
.
'
Full count
'
days,
(7.)
(8.)
"
A reference to Mr.
Katun
the 15th
of the 9th Cycle of the 54th Great Cycle commences 4 Ahau, the 13tli day of the month Yax, the date which with, tbe day
The combination 4 Ahau 13 Yax is here given in the inscription. can only occur once in a period of fifty-two years. " One of Mr. Goodman's discoveries is the system on which, the Mayas numbered the different series of time divisions. For instance,
the twenty
Ahaus
are not
numbered
1, 2, 3,
&c.,
up
to 20,
but they
were numbered 20, 1 2, 3, &c., to 19. "If we should nowadays wish to use a similar notation, we should probably number the series 0, 1, 2, &c., 19 but it seems as though the Mayas, having no sign for 0, wrote the sign for 20 or a full
;
count
"
'
of
Ahaus
The eighteen Chuens are in like manner numbered 18, 1, 2, same sign being used for a full count of Chuens
' '
'
as
used for a
"
full
count
'
'
of
Ahaus.
'
'
full count of is a Chuen, a Chuens (eighteen) is an Ahau, and a full count of Ahaus (twenty) The foregoing inscription may be read thus is a Katun. " The 15th Katun of the 9th Cycle with no odd Ahaus, Chuens, or days added, begins with 4 Ahau 13 Yax.
As
''
full
count
of days (twenty)
'
'
*'Had the date been one including a specified number of Ahaus, Chuens, or Days, we should have had to make use of the annual
met with in the inscriptions in connexion with Cycle, Katun, and other signs for time periods are shown by Mr. Goodman to be in reality numerals, and the whole series of numeric faces from 1 to 20 has been determined in some cases with August 5, certainty, and in others with a fair degree of probability."
18'97.]
last
70
Mr. A. P, Maudslaje
Maya
Calendar Inscri^Jtion
Maya
downwards
in double
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left to right,
interpreted hy
Goodmans
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71
'
Biologia
were issuing from the press, I received from Mr. Teobert Maler a number of photographs of sculptures and inscriptions which, he had recently discovered in Yucatan and the country to the south, of it as far as the banks of the River Usumacinta. One of these inscriptions from Piedras ^Kfegras on the Usumacinta is in a good state of preservation, and a drawing made by Miss Annie Hunter from the photographic print is here reproduced (p 70). As Mr. Goodman has never seen this inscription, an examination of it with the help of his notes and calendar tables will be a fair test
of their valae.
The following signs are figured in Mr. Groodman's essay, and will be found to agree fairly well with those in the inscription.
Cycle
==
20 Katuas.
Kafcuii
20 Ahaua.
Aliau
18 Chtteiis.
Ohuen
20 Days.
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Milan,
It Tlie gljpli 1 is tite initial glypli iiadieatimg' tlie Great Cycle. has more tlie appearance of the sign for the SS^rd than for that of the 54ih Great Cycle, but the signs for the different Great Cycles are still in need of elueidatiom, and the subsequent reckoning shows
Mr, Goodman as
of it (one bar =: 5
2nd^ Ahauj,
on the daj 2 Aban, the ISth ^ay & the month Xul (which
aS'-
is
We
to
The date cais only occur once in the fifty-two years which constitute a calendar rouBd, and an examination of the tables shows that it falls in the first year of the calendar roundi (where it is marked with a
square).
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;
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it,
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year of the annual calendar. Turning to the inscription we find at 2 (passing over the first half of the glyph), 1 Gih followed by (the first half of D 2) 14 Kankin, the date at which we have already arrived by computation.
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Goodmaiis Tables,
79
Passing over tlie next tliree glyplis we arrive at another reckoning, 4i gives 10 days, 11 Chiiens, 1 Alian, and fhe first half of C 5 gives 1 Katun.
1
J.
Katun .,....,,,,.,
-A,naii
.o*****..
or 21 years and 125 days to the previons date, 14 KanJdn, it v^ill bring ns to 4 Gimi 14 Uo in the thirty-fifth year of the annual calendar, and we find this date expressed in the inscription in the glyphs D 5 and 6, Passing over the next three glyphs we arrive at another reckoning (E 1), 3 Ahaus, 8 Chuens, 15 days
:
u ays
.....
8 years.
lis
Adding 3 years and 160 days to the last date, 4 Gimi 14 Uo, "brings to 11 Ymix 14 Yax in the thirty- eighth year of the annual calen;
we
2 and
2 of
It is true that in the sig'n in the glyph employed for the day Ymix, but that it
E
is
is
know from
included in a cartouche, and I am inclined to think that the more usual Ymix sign (something like an open hand with the fingers extended) was inclosed in the oval on the top of the grotesque head, but it is too much worn for identification.
the fact that
it is
6,
which
Xt7 X-^ays
80 days.
Xt7
,,
99 days.
Adding 99 days to the last date, 11 Ymix 14 Yax^ brings us to 6 Ahau 13 Muan in the same year, and we find this date expressed in P 7 and P 8.
80
Dr. A. D. Waller,
lasb
hifiuence of Acids
and Alkalis
glyph in the inscription is a Katun sign with tlie numeral and a sign for ''beginning " in front of it, and indicates that the last date is the beginning of a 14th. Katun. If we turn to the table for the 9fch Cycle of the 54th Great Cycle, from which we started, it will be seen that the 14th Katun of that cycle does commence with the date 6 Ahau 13 Muan. It is simply impossible that the identity of the dates expressed in the inscription with those to which the computations have guided us can throughout be fortuitous. Yery nearly half of the forty-eighfc glyphs in the inscription have been accounted for, and I have no doubt that when the inscription passes under Mr Goodman's scrutiny lie will be able to give us much information about the remaining* glyphs which I have passed over as undeciphered. It can, I think, therefore, be fairly claimed for Mr. Goodman that his researches have raised the veil of mystery which has for so long hang over the carved hieroglyphic writing of the Mayas
The
14 above
it,
'^Influence of Acids
M.D.5 F.R.S*
and Alkalis upon the Electrotonic CurBy Augustus D. Waller, Received June 10, Read June 17, 1897.
lEJffect
A. The
of Acids
and of Alkalis.
Considering that electrotonic currents are characteristic of living medullated nerve, that such currents are due to electrolytic polarisation, and that such electrolysis must primarily consist in a liberation of electronegative principles (oxyg-en, acid, &c.) at the anode,
and
of electropositive principles (hydrogen, base, &c.) at the kathode, the first and most obvious test to be made is to examine comparatively the action of acids and bases upon aneleotrotonic and
katelectrotonic currents.
On the supposition that a medullated nerve-fibre is composed of two different electrolytes, white fatty sheath and grey proteid axis, and that electrolytic polarisation is aroused at the interface of separation between these two electrolytes, we may expect to find, as the chai'acteristic acidic effect, diminution of A and increase of K, and as the characteristic basic effect, increase of A and diminution of K. This expectation is in the main substantiated by experiment, although owing to the somewhat narrow range of concentration within which moderate effects are produced, it is not common to obtain effects in both of the two opposite directions in a single experiment. The reagent may be too weak, in which case neither A nor K are altered, or it may be too strong, in which case both A
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(1)
{o)
TLe Great Cjclo sign. (2) The Cycle. (3) The Katun. (4) The Ahau. (8) The named month. (7) The named day. The Chucn. (6) The Day.
Maya
left to right.)
Cycle
20
Da,;a.
named months
Yaikin,
Kankin.