SUMMARY OF PROCxRESS IN ANTHROPOLOGY. 



By Otis Tufton Mason. 



GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY. 



C<»n2>rchcH.sii-(' ivorks. — No great work ai>peared in 1893 in \A'bich a 

 distinguislied anthropologist summed up tlie results of his studies upon 

 the whole subject of the natural history of man. The annual address 

 of the president of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and 

 Ireland brings together the work done by that society in an orderly 

 manner, and a lecture bureau course of instruction was given by sj^e- 

 cialists through the United Kingdom under its auspices. 



The Anthropological Society in Washington conducted successfully 

 twelve Saturday lectures by distinguished si)ecialists, covering the 

 ground of the whole scieuce. Dr. Brinton, in Philadelphia, also con- 

 tinued his comprehensive course. In most German universities there 

 is some one professor who delivers an encyclopaedic series of lectures 

 on anthropology. 



During the year tlie program of the ficole d' Anthropologic in Paris 

 was as follows: 



Medical geography. M. Bordier. 

 Autliropogeny and huiiiaii cml)ryology. ]\L Duval. 

 Ethnology. Georges Hervt^. 

 Linguistics and ethnography. Andr6 Lefevre. 

 History of civilizations. Ch. Letourneau. 

 Zoological anthropology. T. G. Mahondeau. 

 Physiological anthropology. L. Manouvrier. 

 Comparative ethnography. A. de Jlortillet. 

 Prehistoric antlirepology. G. de Mortillet. 

 ' Geographic anthropology. Fr. Schrader. 



These lectures are of the highest order, and are recognized by the 

 minister of public instruction as of general utility. 



In the New Standard Dictionary just issuing by Funk & Wagnalls, 

 of New Y'ork, as much attention is paid to words in this department of 

 knowledge as in any other. Cassell, Johnston, the old reliable diction- 

 aries, in their new editions, at last recognize the importance of this 

 science. 



The classification of anthropology in the British Association's Notes 



and Queries into anthropogrnphy and ethnology takes the last-named 



term out of the realm of biological anthropology and places it at the 



head of all the functional sciences of man. 



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