390 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



ETHNOLOGY. 



ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND PSYCHOLOGY OF RACES. 



This branch of anthropology, as before mentioned, regards 

 man as a member of the animal kingdom, amenable to zo- 

 ological laws. By Dr. Topinard, this portion of the subject 

 is divided into two parts : Zoological Anthropology, or the 

 Comparison of Man with other Animals; and Special Anthro- 

 pology, or the Study of the Natural Divisions of the Human 

 Race. In an analytical point of view he divides the study 

 into three subdivisions: 1. Anatomical anthropology; 2. Bi- 

 ological anthropology, including racial psychological phe- 

 nomena; 3. Pathological anthropology, an appendix to the 

 second, treating of the relation of disease to race. To an- 

 atomical anthropology belong craniometry and anthropome- 

 try. To biological anthropology many subsidiary questions 

 belong, such as the character and color of the hair and the 

 skin, the origin and nature of the intellectual faculties, the 

 influence of environment, and the effects of hybridity. To 

 pathological anthropology are relegated such subjects as 

 teratology, prehistoric surgery, malformations, microcepha- 

 ly, and the like. 



The Army Medical Museum at Washington, under the 

 charge of Dr. George A. Otis, has now 1952 entries in the 

 department of skeletons, crania, and calvaria. Most of these 

 are North American. The specimens are all carefully pre- 

 pared, numbered, and mounted ; and the principal measure- 

 ments made and recorded. The publication of the "Medical 

 and Surgical History of the War" has absorbed. the appropri- 

 ations of this department hitherto, and deferred the report 

 upon these objects. 



In the eleventh annual report of the Peabody Museum at 

 Cambridge, the measurements of the crania received during: 

 the year are carefully recorded and published by Mr. Lucien 

 Carr, Jr. 



There are several fine private collections of mound-build- 

 ers' crania in the possession of our Western archaeologists. 

 Members of the American Association, at St. Louis this sum- 

 mer, had the pleasure of inspecting those of Dr. George En- 

 gelmann, Jun., and Dr. J. II. Patrick. 



