REPORT OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ANTHROPOLOGY 



CONTENTS. 



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I. Papers Referred to the Committee 1 74 



II. The Field of Anthropology as a Whole ^74 



III. Present Researches in Anthropology .... ^75 



IV. Suggestions as to Researches by the Carnegie Institution in — 



1. Physical Anthropology' , 177 



2. Archseology 178 



3. Ethnology i79 



To the Board of Trustees of the Caruegie Institution. 



Gentlemen : Your Advisory Committee on Anthropology has 

 the honor to present the following report, which can not be regarded 

 as more than preliminary, owing to the wide extent of the subjects 

 to be considered, to various questions that naturally arise, such as 

 those of infringement on territory already occupied, as well as to 

 the difficulty of finding men specially qualified for certain divisions 

 of research. 



I. Papers Referred to the Committee. 



The correspondence referred to the committee has been consid- 

 ered and brief notes characterizing the subject matter are attached 

 to the communications in each case. Many of the papers are found 

 worthy of careful attention, while a number relate to subjects not 

 within the scope of the Advisory Committee on Anthropology. No 

 grants to individuals or for special, limited researches are recom- 

 mended, but rather it has been sought to organize the work on broad 

 lines, as a basis for future elaboration in special lines. However, 

 many suggestions made by correspondents have been here embodied. 



II. The Field of Anthropology as a Whole. 



The science of man covers a wide range of diversified subjects, 

 which may be classified under a few general heads. Viewing the 

 human kind or species as a whole, the science considers (i) its 

 physical or biological characters under the head of physical anthro- 

 pology : (2) its intellectual characters and history vi^^tx psychology ; 

 (3) its arts and industries under techvology ; (4) its social structures 

 and functions under sociology ; (5) its languages and letters under 

 philology ; (6) its systems or opinion and its cults under philosophy 

 and religion ; (7) its aesthetical activities under (esthetics. 



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