ANTHROPOLOGY FOR 1887 AND 1888. 



By Otis T. Mason. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The record of progress in anthropology during the years 1887 and 

 1888 includes publications of general and of special significance. For 

 The sake of convenience, following the suggestion of Dewey in his deci- 

 mal classification of knowledge, this summary will commence with the 

 eucyclopiedic portion of anthropology. To render this portion more 

 easy of reference, the following order may be observed : 



(0) General treatises, including addresses, courses of lectures, bibli- 

 ographies, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, collections of materials for study, 

 general discussions, classifications of anthropology. 



(1) Societies, their history, scope, and enterprises, and a list of their 

 publications. 



(2) Journals, proceedings, transactions, organs of associated bodies. 



(3) Periodicals, like the Revue d'Anthropologie, etc., devoted to the 

 subject of anthropology at large. 



(4) Congresses, caucuses, general assemblies for some special occa- 

 sion, Comptereudus. 



(5) Laboratories and apparatus of research, in which the whole ground 

 is covered. Special laboratories, such as Francis Galton's, for socio- 

 logical inquiries, or Wuudt's, in psycho-physics, should be described 

 under their appropriate head. 



(G) Museums and collections. A properly arranged account of all 

 collections, with their specialties, would save much tiresome hunt and 

 enlarge the results of our work. 



(7) Galleries or collections of anthropological illustrations. Little 

 has been done to perfect this side of anthropology. 



(8) Libraries, catalogues of books on anthropology, clieck-lists, and 

 similar devices for ready reference, classifications of books. 



(9) Instructions to collectors. 



Works on the general subject of the natural history of man have been 

 published in the two years covered by this summary by Ilerr Schaafi- 

 hausen, Serrurier and dc (^uatrefages, Hovelacque and Herve, Canes- 

 triui, Friedrich Ratzel, Johannes Rauke, O. T. Mason, J. Lippert, E. 

 Morselli, and Sayce. 



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