ANTMKOrOLOGY. 



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the other belongs to the whole species rather than to any of its three 

 divisions. 



In this rSsume we shall have space to mention but one other charac- 

 teristic, stature : 



Nomenclature of stature. 



Combining this mark with all previousl3^ mentioned, Dr. Topinard 

 groups the races studied as follows : 



COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY. 



Prof. Alexander Bain read a paper at the Aberdeen mf-eting of the 

 British Association on the scope of anthropology and its relation to the 

 science of mind. The whole burden of the essay was to insist upon 

 amenability to measurements as the password of any set of human phe- 

 nomena to the section of anthropology. This is as it should be. Mr. 

 Bain further pointed out a great variety of mind actions which were 

 already under the instrument of precision, and others which ought to 

 be and could be. "Psychology has now a very large area of neutral 

 information. It possesses materials gathered by the same methods of 

 rigorous observation and induction that are followed in the other sci- 

 ences. If these researches are persisted in they will go still further 



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