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VIII. — SOCIOLOGY. 



Two large volumes on dynamic sociology were published by Lester 

 F. Ward, in which he seeks to group all industries and to classify the 

 elements of society by means of the fundamental human wants and 

 their supply. The principles of natural selection co-operating with the 

 well-known laws of nature are deemed sufficient to account for all hu- 

 man phenomena. There is a high moral tone prevading the work and 

 an earnest protest against the notion that materialism is necessarily a 

 doctrine of laissez /aire. 



In the series of descriptive sociologies published by Herbert Spencer, 

 the eighth part, relating to the social history of France, appeared dur- 

 ing the year. 



An interesting social problem is the life history and training of chil- 

 dren among savages. M. Kulischer is the author of a carefully pre- 

 pared treatise upon the treatment of children and youth on the low 7 er 

 levels of civilization. The bibliography in his paper is of great value. 



J. Owen Dorsey published during the year two papers in his series of 

 gentile systems, the gentile system of the Omahas and the gentile sys- 

 tem of the Iowas. The same author has also discussed myths and le- 

 gends of the Dakotan stock. 



A.W. Howitt continues to publish learned papers on the Australian class 

 system. It may be truly said that the systems of relationship among the 

 aborigines of Australia and of North America are the best known hi the 

 world, thanks to the stimulus given to such studies by Mr. Morgan. The 

 discovery of a minute division of the clans for the purposes of marriage 

 and inheritance very much complicates the system as formerly understood. 



By reference to the bibliography it will be seen that sociological stud- 

 ies have assumed a most varied character touching births, deformations, 

 child growth, marriage, divorce, medicine, law, jurisprudence, and re- 

 ligion. 



IX.— DAIMONOLOGY. 



Foremost among the cultivators of this branch of anthropology in 

 America are Major Powell, Dr. Brinton, and H. H. Bancroft. In the 

 second volume of the Bureau of Ethnology Keport are the foltowing 

 papers on Mythology : 



Zuhi fetiches, by F. H. Cushing. 



Myths of the Iroquois, by E. A. Smitb. 



Animal Carvings from the Mounds, by H. W. Henshaw. 



In the last-named paper the relation of the subject to mythology is 

 discussed. J. O. Dorsey, of the same Bureau, has added largely to our 

 knowledge of the mythologies of the Dakotan stock. Mr. Bancroft's 

 volumes are filled with references to the older authorities on the my- 

 thologies of the West Coast, Mexico, and Central America. 



The Iroquois Book of Rites, published by Dr. Brinton and edited by 

 Horatio Hale, is a good deed to science in that it saves one of those pro- 

 ductions so likely to pass soon beyond recovery. 



