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Excerpt from Address by Col. Garrick Mallery, U. S. A. (Chairman of Subsection of Anthropology) Before the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Cincinnati, Ohio: August 1881 An argument for the uniformity of the signs of Indians is derived from the fact that those used by any of them are generally understood by othe1s. But signs may be understood without being identical with any before seen. It IS a common experience that when Indians find a signzwhich has become conventional among their tribe not to be understood by an interlocutor, a self expressive Sign is substituted for it, from which a visitor may form the impression that there are no conventional signs. It may likewise occur that the self-expressive sign substituted will be met with by a visitor in several localities, different Indians, in their ingenuity, taking the best and the same means of reaching the exotic intelligence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.