PROGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1889. 



By Prof. Otis T. Mason. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Merely for the convenience of bringing together those subjects that 

 are most akin, and not to draw hard and fast lines in a vigorously 

 growing science, the same method will be pursued here as in last year's 

 summary. The order of presentation will be: General or Encyclopaedic 

 Anthropology, Biology, Psychology, Ethnology, Language, Technology, 

 Archaeology, Sociology, Philosophy, Folk-lore and Religion, and 

 Hexiology. 



Under the heading of Encyclopiedic Anthropology, the following 

 classific concepts cover the entire ground : 



(1) General treatises, annual addresses, courses of lectures, diction- 

 aries, encyclopaedias, general discussions, classifications of the science. 



(2) Societies, their organization, scope, enterprises, history, and lists 

 of their publications. 



(3) Journals, proceedings and transactions, the organs of associated 

 bodies. 



(4) Periodicals, like L'Anthropologie, devoted wholly or in part to 

 anthropology. 



(5) Annual assemblies, caucuses, congresses, general meetings of a 

 national or international character. 



(6) Laboratories for general study. 



(7) Museums and collections, public and private, their scope, con- 

 tents, methods, catalogues and history. Expositions. 



(8) Albums, galleries, portfolios, methods of illustrating anthro- 

 pology. 



(9) Libraries on anthropology, catalogues, bibliographies, check-lists, 

 and devices for ready reference, classification of books. 



(10) Instructions to collectors. 



I.— GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY. 



(1) Each year some distinguished anthropologist brings together the 

 results of his lifetime work in a general treatise upon the natural 

 history of man. In accordance with this unwritten law the historian 



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