ANTHROPOLOGY. ' 531 



2. Anthropoid Apes. 



Polyhedry accented, 52 in 52, or 100 per cent. 

 Alveolar arch in upsilon, 52 in 52, or 100 per cent. 

 Sutures simple, 26 in 23, or 92 per. 

 Nasal bones atrophied, 47 in 51, or 92 per cent. 

 Absence of nasal spine, 36 in 52, or G9.2 per cent. 

 Osseous crests highly developed, 24 in 33, or 03. 6 per cent. 

 Pterion reflexed, 20 in 43, or 46.5 per cent. 

 Among orangs, 8 in 31, or 26 per cent. 



In the Index Medicus a special department is assigned to Hygiene, 

 and the following analysis of that department Avill show how deeply 

 rooted anthropology is becoming in the learned professions; 

 XIII. State Medicine. 



1. Medicine and medical ethics. 



2. Hygiene and iJuhlic hygiene. 



a. Construction and management of hospitals. 



b. Heating and ventilation. 



c. Hygiene of cities. 



d. Hj'giene of habitations. 



e. Hygiene of occupations. 

 /. Hygiene of person. 



g. Hygiene of schools. 



h. Inspection and disposal of the dead. 



i. Inspection of food and drugs. 



l\ Sewerage, drainage, and water supply. 



3. Medical education and schools. 



4. Medical jurisprudence and toxicology. 



5. Military and naval medicine. 



PSYCHOLOGY. 



Dr. Alexander Bain read at the last meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion, a paper on the scope of anthropology and its relations to the science 

 of mind. Says this distinguished authority : "The mode of research 

 grounded on discriminatiYe sensibility, aud working up from that, ac- 

 cording to the best known priuci[)les of our intellectual nature may be 

 contrasted with another mode which has always been in vogue, namely, 

 finding out and noting any surprising feats that animals can perform 

 out of all proportion to what we should be led to expect of them. 



"The spirit of such inquiries is rather to defy explanation than to pro- 

 mote it. They delight to nonplus and puzzle the scientific investigator 

 who is working his way upward by slow steps to the higher mysteries. 

 Before accounting for the exceptional gifts of animals — the geniuses of a 

 tribe, — we should be able to prove the average and recurring capabil- 

 ities. 



"It is an error to suppose the mental qualitiesdonotadmitof measure- 

 ment. No doubt the higher complex feelings of the mind are incapable 

 of being statea "^itli numerical precision, yet by a proper mode of ap- 

 proaching the sub^^ct a very considerable degree of accuracy is at- 

 tainable. 



