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ly meetings, and has branch societies 

 in Minnesota and Tennessee. 



The governmental work in an- 

 thropology can not he well overesti- 

 mated. The National Museum, the 

 Smithsonian Institution, the Army 

 Medical Museum, and the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology are doing 

 much by displays, lectures, publica- 

 tions, and field work. Of field work 

 by outside organizations more than 

 ever before goes on. The Peabody 

 Museum Exploration in Honduras, 

 the Bandelier Expedition to South 

 America, the Mexican work of the 

 American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory and other organizations, the 

 Armour Expedition to Yucatan, and 

 the Hemenway Exploration in the 

 Southwest testify a widespread in- 

 terest. 



There is no question, then, of 

 interest and activity. These are 

 world-wide, and steadily increasing. 

 The real need now is direction of 

 this interest to the best end. It is 

 necessary to so organize and sys- 

 tematize efforts in each department, 

 and in the whole field, that the man 

 of ordinary intelligence may know 

 the meaning of the movement, and 

 come in touch with it profitably. 

 Helps are not entirely lacking. There 

 are journals the American Anthro- 

 pologist, American Antiquarian, 

 Archaeologist, American Journal of 

 Folklore these show the trend. 

 Dr. Brinton's Current Notes in An- 

 thropology in " Science " are help- 

 fully directive. Dr. Fletcher's Quar- 

 terly Bibliography in the American 

 Anthropologist, and Prof. Mason's 

 Annual Summary of Progress in 

 Anthropology throughout the 

 World (published by the United 

 States National Museum), keep read- 

 ers informed of recent literature. 

 With these aids the student has but 

 to select his held. First of all, how- 

 ever, he will do well to read a few 

 good books of a general kind. De 



Quatrefages'sNatural History of Man, 

 and The Human Species, Brinton's 

 Races and Peoples, Tylor's Anthro- 

 pology, Early History of Mankind, 

 and Primitive Culture, are useful. 

 Some of these are by no means re- 

 cent works, but they will not soon 

 be replaced. 



CONCLUSION OF BE. WHITE'S NEW 

 CHAPTERS. 



Our readers who have followed 

 with interest Dr. Andrew D. White's 

 papers on the Warfare of Science 

 and that they are many is amply 

 proved by the constant stream of in- 

 quiries as to the publication of the 

 series in book form which we receive 

 will be pleased to learn that the 

 last division of the subject is now 

 completed. As already announced, 

 The Warfare of Science is to be 

 published as a volume. While this 

 final division is running through 

 the Monthly, the author will con- 

 tinue his careful revision of the pre- 

 ceding portions, already well ad- 

 vanced, and by the time the last 

 installment ajmears the printer will 

 probably have begun putting the first 

 part into book form. In his earlier 

 chapters Dr. White has shown how 

 theologians have been forced step by 

 step to yield the domination which 

 they asserted in astronomy, meteor- 

 ology, medicine, and other fields out- 

 side their own province. He is now 

 about to trace the advance from fan- 

 tastic errors to more rational views 

 which the spread of the scientific 

 mode of thinking has compelled 

 them to make in theology itself. 

 This advance has been brought about 

 not so much by direct action on the 

 part of science as by the disposition 

 which science has aroused in men 

 to use their reasoning powers on all 

 matters that are presented to them. 

 The consequence has been that dog- 

 matism and mysticism in preaching 

 and teaching have found fewer and 



