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it has always been open to papers in other departments. From 

 the beginning it has been under the editorship of the Rev. Stephen 

 D. Peet, who has worked hard to put it where it now is, and who 

 deserves hearty support in an undertaking which has never been 

 a money success. Mr. Peet has himself been a field-worker and 

 an original thinker. His field of labor is one that was for years 

 left almost untouched, although none is more interesting the 

 effigy mounds of Wisconsin. Years ago Dr. Lapham prepared a 

 work on the subject, which was very creditable for that time. 

 Mr. Peet has gone over the same ground, and has resurveyed the 

 groups. But he has done much more : he has surveyed many new 

 groups, has made a careful study of the animal forms represented 

 and of their attitudes, and has tried to work out their significance. 

 The theories he suggests are certainly entitled to consideration, 

 and his study deserves recognition and higher praise than it has 

 yet received. 



Nor are our Canadian neighbors neglecting anthropology. Sir 

 Daniel Wilson's works, Prehistoric Man and Prehistoric Annals 

 of Scotland, were training-books for the present generation of 

 scholars. Very recently he has added an interesting contribution 

 to a curious field in his little book Left-handedness. 



Another veteran worker whom we love to recognize is Horatio 

 Hale, who, half a century ago, went around the world as the 

 ethnologist of the Wilkes Exploring Expedition. Of him Dr. 

 Brinton, in the dedication of his recent little book on Races and 

 Peoples, justly says, " His many and valuable contributions to 

 linguistics and ethnography place him to-day among the foremost 

 authorities on these sciences/' Both, in advanced years, preserve 

 the zeal for scientific progress, which shows itself in the planning 

 and directing of anthropological investigations, in the founding 

 of collections such as those of Toronto University and the Cana- 

 dian Institute, and in the development of such students as David 

 Boyle and Mr. Chamberlain. This archaeological collection of the 

 Canadian Institute at Toronto is a surprisingly rich and interest- 

 ing one, and the annual reports regarding it are becoming valued 

 contributions to archaeological literature. In one of the more 

 recent of these reports Mr. Chamberlain presents a valuable bib- 

 liography of Canadian work in anthropology a long list of valua- 

 ble papers. We only regret that we have not the space to refer 

 to some of them and to their authors in detail. 



Such, briefly sketched, is some of the work Americans are 

 doing in the great field of anthropological science. 



