ceo SCIENTIFIC RECORD FOR 1884. 



The international geographical exposition at Toulouse included an 

 iinthropological section, with the following subdivisions : 



(1) Anthropology. — Crania, skeletons, anatomical preparations, fig- 

 ures, and busts. 



(2) Demography. — Statistics, graphic methods, charts, &c. 



(3) Prehistorics.—Hwmnw remains, quaternary fauna and flora, arms, 

 utensils, &c., charts, books, reproductions, views, &c. 



(4) Ethnology and ethnography. — Lay figures, illustrations of the ori- 

 gin, crosses, character, cults, manners, and industries of peoples. 



(5) Linguistics. — Geographical distribution and filiation of languages, 

 patois, books, globes, charts, tables. 



(6) Societies. — Publications, apparatus of demonstration, programmes 

 of courses, instructions, plans of museums and laboratories. 



The Academy of JSTatural Sciences in Philadelphia has created a chair 

 of ethnology and archaeology, and appointed Dr. Daniel G. Brinton 

 professor. 



Two works continue to be issued from the Surgeon-General's Office in 

 Washington of which the value is incalculable to anthropologists — the 

 Index-Catalogue and the Index-Medicus. The former is a classified list 

 of the literature in the great library of the Surgeon-General, and the 

 latter is a monthly classified bibliography of the medical literature of 

 the world. 



Three volumes in the series of H. H. Bancroft appeared: the first of 

 the history of California forms volume xviii of the series ; the first and 

 second of the history of the Northwest Coast form volumes xxvii and 

 XXVIII of the series. 



The Dictionnaire des Sciences Anthropologiques comideted its first 

 volume, and two numbers of the second volume appeared during the 

 year. 



"In Eussia," says L'Homme, "there are eight universities: Peters- 

 bourg, Moscow, Kief, Kharkof, Kazan, Odessa, Dorpat, and Varsovie. 

 The professors number 385. Among the chairs lately created in each 

 uuiv^ersity there is to be a professor of geography and ethnography." 



Among the English visitors at the British Association in Montreal 

 was Prof. E. B. Tylor, who took occasion to visit Washington and the 

 Pueblos. Three addresses were delivered by Mr. Tylor, all of them 

 worthy of thoughtful attention, uj^on sociological topics in aboriginal 

 and civilized America. 



THE ORIGIN OF MAN. 



No progress seems to have been made during 1884 towards settling 

 the question of the place, time, or conditions of man's origin. The 

 conference of the anthropological section of the Association Fran9ais 

 at Blois reveals a multiplicity of opinions, not only respecting the dis- 

 coveries of Abbe Bourgeois, but M. Mortillet has wrested the case 

 altogether from human hands and given it to Anthroxyopithecus. This 



