Note 4-* — THE MAYAS AND THE SOURCES OF THEIR HISTORY.

M. L’Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, in his Histoire des nations civilisées du Mexique (Paris, 1859, vol. I. Preface), speaks of M. Aubin as the translator of the manuscript “Historia Tulteca,” as the author of the Mémoire sur l’écriture figurative et la peinture didactique des anciens Mexicains, in which he reconstructed the system of Mexican figurative writing almost entirely, and as the present owner of what remains of the celebrated Boturini collection, and of many other historical treasures, gathered in his various travels.