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was the work which made his reputation. It showed great research, 

 original insight, much constructive power in the formation of sys- 

 tematic views, and a high degree of literary merit. It at once took a 

 position as a standard treatise upon the subject, was translated and 

 republished in different countries, and contributed largely toward the 

 diffusion and acceptance of more rational views on the subject of the 

 earlier and the lower races of mankind than had hitherto prevailed. 

 " Primitive Culture : Researches into the Development of Mythology, 

 Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom," appeared in 1871, in two 

 volumes. This was a much more comprehensive work than the former, 

 pursuing the same questions to a more amplified and exhaustive treat- 

 ment. 



The latest considerable work of this author, an educational hand- 

 book of the science of man, entitled " Anthropology, an Introduction to 

 the Study of Man and Civilization," was published in 1881. This is 

 undoubtedly the best book upon the subject in our language. It is not 

 a large work, but it condenses an immense amount of information 

 with great skill, so as to bring the exposition into shape for general 

 readers who have no time to peruse and digest ponderous volumes. 

 Dr. Tylor is a very amiable man, and, without saying that he is fastid- 

 ious and timid, he is undoubtedly solicitous to give the least possible 

 offense in his statements. To show how careful he is to avoid irritat- 

 ing even persons of very confined ideas, it has been remarked that the 

 word "evolution " only occurs once in the "Manual of Anthropology," 

 although the book is broadly based upon that fundamental idea. 



Dr. Tylor is an excellent lecturer, and has frequently delivered 

 discourses before learned societies, like the Royal Institution of Lon- 

 don, which have been widely published, and are always marked by 

 originality, terseness, and interest. He has contributed to periodicals 

 and encyclopsedias, and is a hard worker. He is well known as the 

 author of the theory of animism, and it is claimed that he first intro- 

 duced or made current the terra " survival," now so commonly applied 

 to those vestiges of early habits and ideas which linger on as anoma- 

 lies long after they went out of their primitive use. 



Our author was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1871, re- 

 ceived the honorary degree of LL, D. from the University of St. An- 

 drews in 1873, and a D. C. L. from the University of Oxford in 1875. 

 He is President of the Anthropological Society, and in March, 1883, 

 he was appointed Keeper of the Oxford University Museum, and in 

 the same year the degree of M. A. was conferred upon him by decree 

 of the House of Convocation. He has also been made reader in an- 

 thropology, it being the first provision made by the University of 

 Oxford for teaching that subject. 



