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In tlie collection of material for a scientific investigation of this class 

 of persons I have found it convenient to adopt the following questions: 



(1) What are the actors called and what social rank do they htdd? 



(2) By what rites or initiations do they attain to the privileges of their 

 class ? 



(3) What do they profess to do ? What are they believed to be able 

 to do ? That is, to which class above named do they claim to belong ? 



(4) What do they actually perform f What is their mode of treat- 

 ment? I)o they sing, dance, go into ecstasy, suck the wound, spit out 

 the disease in the form of a bone, stone, etc.? That is, not what they 

 claim to do, but what do they, actually? What dress, paraphernalia, 

 implements, and dramatic performances do they resort to? What fees 

 do they charge ? 



(5) What is the area of their operations, both in the spirit and in the 

 mundane world ? Some cause, others cure, disease. Some have influ- 

 ence in one sphere, others in other spheres of spirits. Again, some op- 

 erate on the sick, others on the conjured, lovers, lost cattle, epilepsy, etc. 



(6) Folklore, beliefs, and customs of the folk in view of the foregoing 

 subjects of inquiry. 



A significant fact in the progress of science is the establishment of a 

 professorship of the science of religion in the ficole des Hautes Etudes 

 at Paris, in the University of Eome, under the auspices of the Italian 

 Government, and at Brussels. 



It is worthy of remark that such savants as Derenbourg, Eosny, 

 Havet, Verues. Libauea, and d'Alviella have charge of these courses. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANTHROPOLOGY, 1886. 



Abbott, C. C— Animal weather-lore. Pop. So. Month., xxviii, 635-642. 



Acad<5mie des Inscriptions et Bellos-Lettres. Abounds iu notices of arcbieological 



exploration. 

 Alberto, A. — Coutribuciou al estudio dc las localizationes cerebrales. An. d. Circ. 



Jlod. Argent., Buenos Ayres, ix, 247-258. 

 Albkecut, J. F. — Der Meusch und sein Geschlecht, oder Belehrungen iiber physisclie 



Licbe, etc. Quedleuburg : Ernst. 8vo. 

 Albrecut, p. — Sur la place ruorphologique de rhomme dans la sdrie des mammi- 



I'eres. Hambourg. 13 p., 2 fig. 8vo. 

 Allen, Gkant.— A thinking machine. Pop. Sc. Month., xxviii, 51)6-605. 

 Alsberg, M.— Die Anfjinge der Eisenkultiir. Berlin. 8vo. 

 American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal. Ed. Stephen D. Poet, Clinton, Wis. 



Vol. VIII. 

 American Antiquarian Society. Worcester, Mass. Proceedings. A^)l. iv, pts. land 2. 

 American Association for the Advancemenl; of Science, 35th meeting, held at Buffalo, 



N. Y. Vice-president, Horatio Ilale. 



PAPERS READ. 



Sepulchral lites of the Mound-Builders. Ed. P. Vining. 



Notes uiion a. native Brazilian language. J. C. Brauner. 



Wampum. "W. M. Beauchamp. 



Piute nerbalist. CJbarles P. II.iTt. 



Ejah Shah, a sacrificial stono of the Dakotahs. H. C. Hovey. 



