SUMMARY OF PROGRESS IN ANTHROPOLOGY. 625 



Lef(^-vrecb()sefor his rlu'iii!' ; Beliefs of ancient Gie(M'e; the peojjles and 

 tlieir jiods. The order m which the argument i)roceeded was — 



(1) Hellenic origins; (2) Animistic^ beliefs; (3) Cultof the procreative 

 powers, fire and (if heroes; (4) Divine i)ersonages: the Dodoneau 

 group, the air and the eartli; (.")) Primitive xVsiatic influences, Phrygia, 

 Pluenicia; ((I) Fornuition and recension of the Iliad and the Odys- 

 sey; (7) The Achaians, the two uiifound groups; (S) The gods of 

 Homer: Olympus, Zeus; (!>) The gods of Homer: Hera, Athena and 

 Odysseus, Poseidon; (10) The solar group: Dorian Apollo, Hepha;stos; 



(11) Life and death according to the Homeric Achteans (Patroclus); 



(12) The Homeric lower world; (13) Ilesiod: The poet and his contem- 

 poraries and their conception of life; (14) Hesiod: the Theogony ; (1.")) 

 Ilesiod: The Chronids, Titans, Tartarus, physical notions; (10) Her- 

 cules, the demigod; (17) Dyonyssos, Bassareus, iJagaios, Zagreus, 

 Sachus; (IS) Demeter and the mysteries; (19) Orphism; (20) Syncil- 

 tism and decadence. — (h'cr. Mens., Paris, iii, 20). 



The fifth annual nu^eting of the American Folklore Society was 

 held in Montreal, September 13. The society was incorporated, and 

 mensurcs taken to publish si)ecial monographs. The papers by Heli 

 Chatelain on the retarded development of African civilijcation, by W, 

 W. Newell on the material and objects of folklore, and by Adolf Ger- 

 ber on P>rer Rabbit, a comi)arative study, were of especial value. 



ARCHyEOLOGY. 



Dr. .Mori/ Hoernes lays down with great care the fundamental prin- 

 cii)lcs of a system of study and instruction in prehistoric arclKeology, 

 of which the following is the scheme: 



A. — i)i;i-iNni-oN. 



1. The it'hitiou of prehistory to history and to tho historical tstudy of aiiti(|uitif8. 



2. The place of prehistory iu the syllabus of anthropology, its relatiou to jjliysical 



anthropology and ethnology. 



H. — ANALYSIS. 



1, Propa'deutics. 



a. History of the science. 



b. Study of resources. 



(I. Literary sources, both direct and indirect. 



h. Monuments (attention. 1, to the topographic and, 2, rauseographic order, 

 by means of examining h)calities and handling the objects). Classitica- 

 tion of objects, both on the natural history and the archaeological con- 

 cept. 



c. Criticism and explanation. 



2, Systematic representation. 



a. Fundamental factors: Culture areas and groups of mankind. 



b. Development factors: Invention, borrowing, remodeling, transmitting. 



c. Separate forms or classes: Language, religion, jurisprudence, the family, the 



state, the house, and the hearth; food, clothing, ornament, weapons, 

 tools, industries, trade, navigation, art, etc. 



3, Typological repreisentatiou: Forms of dwelling places, industrial places, forti- 



ficatious, religious iuclosures, cemeteries, depots, filso apparatus, with 

 their fuuctiou aiul (levplopmeot, 



