628 SUMMARY OF PROGRESS IN ANTHROPOLOGY. 



latter iu coiuiectioti with the former's disposal of certain tlDds in Assyria. 

 The outcome was a judj^inent against Bndge of £.")(), which his confreres 

 l)aid, because they believed he was acting always in the interests of the 

 museum. (Nature, London, 1893, XLViii, 343.) 



PHYSIOGRAPHY' AND ANTHROPOLOGY. 



All sciences are coming more and more to contribute to authroi)ology. 

 The International (leographic C'Onference in Chicago furnished an 

 example of this statement. Mr. (Jardiuer (J. Hubbard selected as the 

 topic of his presidential address. The relation of air and water to tem- 

 perature and life. The following titles also show the current of tiionght: 



The roliition of geography to Historj". Fraucis W. Parker. 



Nnrway and the V^i kings. Capt. Maguus Auder.seii. 



Geographic instruction in i)ublic scho(jls. W. B. Powell. 



The relation of geograiihy to phy.siography in onr ediuationai system. T. C. 



Chamherlain. 

 Early \'oyagcs along the northwest coast of America. George OavicLson. 



In their res}»onses to call, Oen. Eaton, (len. Greely and Maj. Powell 

 all dwelt upon tliis close bond between geogra|)hy and history. 



Dr. F. Schrader deliveied a lecture before the Ecole d'Anthropologie 

 on the inliuence of terrestrial forms upon human development. In the 

 order of se(pience from the ISTurth the author distinguislies live zones: 



(1) A boreal zone, quasi continuous and little varied. 



(2) A north temi)erate zone, extended, much varied, presenting for 

 the development of humanity the greatest possible number of condi- 

 tions. 



(3) A sonth temperate zone analogous but inferior to the last named. 

 More ht to receive culture than to create it. 



(4) An inter-troi)ical or equatorial zone, hot, rainy, with alternations 

 of aridity and continuity of heat. Less diversified in its ensemble than 

 the temperate zone. 



(5) A frigid zone of the south, of no importance in the development 

 of man. {Ker. Mens.', Paris, ill, 200-21!).) 



The destruction of vast numbers of animals by the men of early times 

 in the eastern continent created a gap in tlie evidence upon which the 

 knowledge of very early migrations is to be based. M. Edward I )upont 

 has brought together his studies u})on the fauna and man of the qua- 

 ternary epoch {Bull. Soe. Beige de geol., 1892). Especially valuable is 

 the paper on the study of man considered as a geological force. Spe- 

 cies disappeared before the coming of man, doubtless. (,)uite as true 

 is it that they were exterminated by man. But in the earliest times 

 this destruction was feeble and the author inclines to the view tliat the 

 quaternary fauna disappeared through natural causes. 



In the Journal of the Anthropologioal Society of Bombay* for 1893, 



Vol. in, pp. 9-21, 



