ANTHROPOLOGY. 399 



Paris Exposition is by Dr. Chervin, director of Annates de 

 Demographic Internationale, and appears in the Revue d? An- 

 thropologic, pp. 740-744. Among the statistics of various 

 countries Dr. Chervin mentions those of Sweden, by Dr. 

 Berg ; and those of France, by Dr. Bertillon, as especially 

 noteworthy. 



At the November meeting of the National Academy in 

 New York, Mr. A. Hyatt made some remarks on an Investi- 

 gation of the Laws of Heredity, undertaken by the State 

 Board of Health of Massachusetts. The Bureau of Educa- 

 tion, at Washington, is collecting a mass of statistical infor- 

 mation which will be valuable to ethnologists, especially 

 with reference to the decrease of population, and the progress 

 made in civilization by our Indians and Negroes. Ergan- 

 zungsheft 55, of Petermann's Mittheilungen, is devoted to 

 " Die Bevolkerung der Erde," of Behm and Wagner, an elab- 

 orate report upon the population of the earth. The sum to- 

 tal of humanity is reckoned to be 1,439,145,300. Sir David 

 Wedderburn discusses the Dying-out of the Polynesians, in 

 an article reproduced in the 3d Supplement of the Popular 

 Science Monthly, from the Fortnightly. As is customary, our 

 new science has an organ entitled Annales de Demographie 

 Internationale ; Recueil Triniestriel de Travaux Originaux et 

 de Documents Statistiques, et Bulletin Bibliographique speciel, 

 published by Dr. Chervin. An excellent review of this jour- 

 nal, by Dr. Collineau, will be found in the Revue cVAnthro- 

 polog ie, pp. 118-124. 



PHILOLOGY. 



The object of this branch of anthropology is to subject all 

 human languages to a comparative study, in the same manner 

 as the zoologist investigates the animal creation, in order to 

 ascertain their affinities and differences, and through them to 

 trace the migrations of nations and the evolution of civiliza- 

 tion. "In the present state of the science," says M. Hove- 

 lacque, " the natural classification of languages does not agree 

 with ethnic classifications. The unfortunate axiom ' like 

 language, like race,' has retarded the progress of anthropol- 

 ogy proper, and of philology. The morphological division 

 of languages is the only one that does not prejudge the ques- 

 tion of ethnic origin." 



