ANTIIKOPOLOGY. 401 



delier, on the social organizatio]i aud mode of goveiinnent (if the aucient 

 ]Mexicaus; Bertilloii, on human statistics in France; Flower, on fashion 

 in deformity; Clore, on the development of deliberative government; 

 Powell, on the Wyandotte Government; Royce, on the method and 

 chronology of the extinction of the Indian title : and Yarrow, on mortu- 

 ary customs. 



IX. — Daimonology. 



The word "religion" has had such a variety of meanings that some 

 anthropologists never employ it. The term "religious" applies almost 

 universally to persons, so the phrase "religious anthroi)ology" would 

 not convey the meaning intended. At the risk of introducing a neolo- 

 gism, the term " daimonology " (from Jac/j.wv, — a god, soul, or destiny,) is 

 employed to include all observations and discussions concerning the 

 belief in spiritual beings, the conduct of men in view of their belief, the 

 l^araphernalia by means of which these beings are approached and ap- 

 peased, and the body of dogmas and stories which have grown up around 

 the various phases of a faith. 



Two facts are noticeable in view of the vast amount of earnest study 

 which has been bestowed upon this subject. First, it is now well known 

 that there are bodies of myths among every people as full of pathos and 

 sublimity as those of Greece and Eome. Major Towell is doing excel- 

 lent work in the way of collecting these stories among our own Indians. 



The Folklore Society of Great Britain, as well as similar associations 

 in France and Germany, were organized for the pnrpose of jjublishing 

 in permanent form the supernatural stories of uncultured peoples. 



In the bibliographical appendix will be found allusions to "ISTorse 

 mythology," flower fairies, wolf-reared childien, the religious of India, 

 Polynesia, Ancient Assyria, and Mexico, the cult of the dead, lore of the 

 heavenly bodies, and of animals, creation myths, sacred books, and the 

 origin of religion. Major Powell's vice-presidential address before the 

 section of biology, at the Boston meeting of the American Association, 

 was a discussion of mythologic philosophy, in which the desire to phi- 

 losophize concerning the causes of natural phenomena was considered to 

 be the fundamental iirinciple of all religions. 



X. — Instrujeentalities. 



Each science has not only its field of operation where it gathers its 

 materials, but its storehouses where they are garnered and its media of 

 products before the world. Anthropology also has its implements of 

 research, its museums, and its journals. 



The instruments of precision are mostly confined to the department 

 of biology. The methods of collecting and recording facts for future 

 reference are of immense importance in prosecuting any study. The 

 Smithsonian Institution and the Bureauof Ethnology use card catalogues 

 in their work, so that information is always accessible. It is no dispar- 

 agement to say, however, that in the system pursued at the Surgeon- 

 S. Mis. 31 2G 



