5r)4 PROGRESS OP ANTHJv'()roi,()(;Y IN 1890. 



occasion was one of jjreat irnport.anoe both socially and scicntilically, 

 as the following list of topics will show: 



(1) Prehistoric anti«inities, 



(2) Historico-geographic and ethnographic antiquities. 



(3) Monuments of fine arts. 



(i) Customs and usages in Russia. 



(5) Religious monumenrs. 



(0) Russo-Slavic linguistic and paleographic monuments. 



(7) Classic, Slavo-Byzantinc and western antiquities. 



(8) Oriental and heathen antiquities. 

 (Oy ArcluBograidiic monuments. 



Tiiere is an excellent report of this meeting in the \fittlieilungen, 

 Wien (XX, 148-1()4). 



An event in arch;eology worthy of record in 1889-'1){) was the 

 removal of the National l^]g3'i)tian Museum from BCilaq on the east 

 side of the Nile to the spacious Khedivai palace at Gizeh on the west- 

 ern hank. 



Tlie death of Schliomann removed one of the most romantic charac- 

 ters in the scientific world. The conception of exploring the site of 

 ancient Troy was formed in his boyhood, flis assiduity in amassing a 

 fortune to this end, and his untiring effort to spend his fortune to 

 secure that end hav^e held him up to the admiration of two generations. 

 That his interpretation of his discoveries may not be in every case 

 correct, will not detract greatly from his Just meed of praise. 



Archfeological publications of general interest will be found under 

 the following titles: Aboriginal Monuments in North Dakota, Mont- 

 gomery; American Antiquities, Peet (under several titles); Antiquity 

 of Man, White (series of papers on the Warfare of Science in Pop. Sc. 

 Monthly); Antiquities of Tennessee, Thruston ; Archieology, Powell; 

 ArchiBology of India, Fiihrer; Archaeology of Ohio, Putnam; Bronze 

 Age, Montelius; Cliff Dwellings, Chapin, Mearns ; Discoveries in 

 Egypt, Edwards, Brugsch, Naville; Fort Ancient, Ohio, Moorehead ; 

 French Archieology, Mortillet; Gashed Bones and the Antiquity of 

 Man, Hughes; Oriental Archa'ology, Sayce ; Prehistoric Anthropology, 

 Wilson; Prehistoric Cave dwellings, Bickford; Stone Age in Africa, 

 Audreei Winnipeg Mound Region, Bryce. 



Vril. — SOCIOLOGY. 



In December of 1889, the American Academy of Political and Social 

 Science was organized in LMiiladeli)hia under the most favorable aus- 

 pices. The list of subscribing members reached the numl)er of 8(K) in 

 the first six months of the Academy. The most distinguished univer- 

 sity presidents and i)rofessors are among the governing body. This co- 

 (iperative action marks an era in a branch of anthroi)t)logy hitherto diffi- 

 cult to summarize. The resources of sociological study are unlimited. 



