Excerpt from Standard or Head-Dress?, Vol. 1: An Historical Essay on a Relic or Ancient Mexico

The Trustees of the Peabody Museum of American Archæology and Ethnology have decided to issue such special papers as have heretofore been published in connection with the Annual Reports in a separate form, but of uniform octavo size with the Reports. The first number of the series is herewith published and others will follow at irregular intervals as the means for printing them.is obtained.

The numbers will Be paged consecutively to the end of a volume. Each number will be sold separately at specified prices, varying according to the number of pages and illustrations, but subscriptions will be received in sums of ten dollars or over, and subscribers thus aiding the publication by such advance payments will receive the numbers by mail as soon as issued, at a discount of twenty percent on the specified price of the numbers.

As the Museum is without a special fund for publication it is hoped that with the aid of such a system of subscriptions it will be able to publish a series of papers upon archaeological and ethnological subjects which will prove of value to students and creditable to the Museum.

The Annual Reports will be issued as heretofore, but with the omission of the papers which have usually accompanied them. The manuscript by Mrs.

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