SUMMARY OF PROGRESS IN ANTHROPOLOGY. G2S 



represented the i)r(»j4res,s of taste — national taste, savage taste, barhaiie 

 taste, historic taste, woven togetlier like a 1)eantilnl tapestry. 



In a former suunnary was given th(^ tabulated form of weapons and 

 tools adopted by M. Adrien de Mortillet in his lectures before the Ecole 

 d' Anthropologic. The course in I8O0 was devoted to dress and adorn- 

 ment, their history and diversities, considered in relation to parts of 

 the body. Adornment followed the parts of the body, as follows: 



Jewelry of the head — crowns, diadem^, and frontlets. Jewelry of 

 the ears — drops, pendants, and studs. Nose jewels, inserted in the 

 septum or alae. Labrets, pelele, botoque, bezote, and labrets. Teeth 

 jewelry. Neck jewelry, neck rings, collars, torques. Shoulder and 

 breast jewelry, epaulets and gorgets. Waist decoration, bandstiexible 

 and rigid. Decoration of the lower part of the body. Arm jewels, 

 armlets, bracelets. Finger jewelry. Leg decorations, leglets and ank- 

 lets. Foot jewelry. Jewelry of the clothing. {Krv. McnsneJle, ui, 91).) 



No journal or nuigazine is devoted to this kind of study of compara- 

 tive art and the natural history of art. The work of Henry Balfour 

 on the evolution of decorative art and the papers of Holmes in the 

 reports of the Bureau of Ethnology may be taken as text-books. 



SOCIOLOGY. 



The comparative history of society is nowadays studied in the fol- 

 lowing aspects: 



(1) The family group, or really the groups of human beings that 

 stand around the mother and child, their number and duration. 



(2) The governmental group, involving the structure and actions of 

 hordes, tribes, confederacies, states, nations, and international agree- 

 ments. 



(3) The industrial group, conunonly called guilds, unions, boards of 

 trade, chambers, for mutual offense and defense in business. 



(4) Social groups, for mutual entertainment, help, culture, etc. 



(o) Religious groups, studied in the comparative science of religions. 



Th<^ United States in addition to its govenunental assemblies under- 

 takes the study of the combinations of men as laborers and as business 

 men. 



Every university has a school of political and social science, and in 

 Philadelphia is published the journal devoted to that subject with 

 extended bibliographers. The Johns Hopkins University school issues 

 series of studies of great value. A section of the American Associa- 

 tion is devoted to economics in the widest sense of the term. All 

 periodicals are tilled with sociology; it is the most attractive of all 

 scientitic hobbies. 



MYTHOLOGY AND FOLK-LORE. 



Prof. Caird detines religion to be ''man's ultimate attitude toward 

 the universe.'" But, in trying to arrange a number of objects in accord- 



