ANTHROPOLOGY. ^?,f) 



tlie brain is a single instrument. Our idea of our being single individ- 

 uals is due entirely to this single action of the brain. 



The lecturer also i)ointed out the specific jiortions of the brain to 

 which i>h.vsiologists have been able to relegate certain activities. 



Prof. Balfour Stewart delivered the annual address before the Society 

 of Psychical Research, in London, August 24, on the occasion of the 

 third anniversary. The exact position of the society is best indicated 

 by the language of Professor Stewart: "To my mind the evidence al- 

 ready adduced is such as to render highly probable the occasional 

 presence amongst us of something which we may call thought-transfer- 

 ence, or, more generally, telepathy ; but it is surely our duty as a society 

 to accumulate evidence until the existence of such a power cannot be 

 controverted. We have not been remiss in this respect, and it will be 

 found from the pages of our proceedings that the main strength of our 

 society has been given to prove the existence of telepathy, in the belief 

 that such a fact, well established, will not only possess an independent 

 value of its own, but will serve as an admirable basis for further oper- 

 ations." 



In a paper on comparative physiology and i)sychology, published in 

 the American jS'aturalist, Dr. Clevenger takes the ground that the 

 science of psychology is based upon comparative microscopic anatomy 

 and a ijhysiology into which molecular physics shall enter more in the 

 future. Not only are the laws which bind the social organism similar 

 to and derived from those which govern the units of which it is com- 

 posed, but the protoplasmic units are governed by the same processes 

 down to chemical affinities. , 



Mr. Charles Morris contributes to the same journal a series of articles 

 upon mind and matter, in which the limits of the boundaries of con- 

 sciousness and unconsciousness are discussed. 



ETHNOLOGY, 



The classification of mankind by blood is ethnology. Professor 

 Flower's presidential address before the Anthroiiological Institute on 

 January 27 was devoted to this subject. The majority of anthropolo- 

 gists at the close of 1885 leaned towards the theory of the unity of our 

 species. Humanity, according to this view, is included in a single genus 

 (Homo), which contains but one species (Sapiens). Here the consensus 

 ends, but there still remains a tolerably fixed belief that this species 

 contains three subspecies, main varieties or something of that kind. 

 " After a perfectly independent study of the subject," says Professor 

 riowor, '• extending over many years, I cannot resist the conclusion, so 

 often arrived at by various anthropologists, and so often abandoned for 

 some more complex system, that the primitive man, Mhatever he may 

 have been, has in the course of ages divaricated into three extreme 

 types, represented by the Caucasian of Europe, the Mongolian of Asia, 



