596 PROGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1889. 



The following is the programme: (1) Erosion and filling of valleys. 

 Filling of caverns in relation to the antiquity of man. (2) Periodic- 

 ity of glacial phenomena. (3) Art in the alluvium and in the cav- 

 erns. Value of paliBoutological and archfeological classifications for 

 the quartenary epoch. (4) Chronological relations between the civil- 

 izations of the stone, the bronze, and the iron periods. (5) Relation 

 between the civilizations of Hallstadt and other Danubian stations on 

 the one hand and on the other that of Mycenae, Tirbyus, Hissarlik, and 

 the Caucasus. (6) Examinations of the quaternary skulls and skel- 

 eton parts found during the last fifteen years. Ethnic elements belong- 

 ing to the different ages of stone, bronze andiron, in Central and West- 

 ern Europe. (7) Ethnographic survivals which can throw light on 

 the condition of primitive peoples in Central and Western Europe. 

 (8) How far do the analogies of archeology and ethnology authorize 

 the hypothesis of relationship, or that of pre-historic migration. 



The enormous advantage of having the Congress in Paris during the 

 Exposition was apparent in the large attendance and in the frequent 

 visits which were made to the anthropological museum of Paris, and to 

 the many sections of the Champs de Mars, and the Esplanade des 

 Invalides under the very best of guidance. 



6. The model workshops of anthropologists is the Laboratoire 

 d'Anthropologie in Paris. Even here the counting, weighing, measur- 

 ing of capacity, surface, distance, and angulation is confined to the 

 human body. Galton's laboratory in Loudon and Wuudt's psychophys- 

 icai establishment should be added, with the assistance of the vital 

 statistician and the census director to make the whole complete. The 

 system employed by Alphonse Bertillon for the measurement and 

 identification of criminals in the Palais de Justice in Paris, is being- 

 adopted in many cities in our own country. Under the names of Bene- 

 dikt, Galton, Hitchcock, Rollet, Topinard, and Virchow in our bibli- 

 ography will be found titles of publications on this branch of anthro- 

 pology. 



7. Kristian Bahnson, of Copenhagen, has rendered a lasting benefit 

 to the student in his pamphlet on ethnographic museums, first pub- 

 lished in Denmark and translated in the Mittheilungen der Anthro- 

 poU)gischen Gesellschaft, in Wien. Museum history is the subject 

 of an elaborate paper by Dr. Goode, of the Smithsonian Institution. 

 Dr. Bastian, in the transactions of the Berlin Anthropological Society, 

 writes on American collections. Eeinach, on the museum of the Em- 

 peror Augustus, should not be overlooked. 



The Peabody Museum in Cambridge publishes carefully prepared 

 reports of its explorations and accessions each year. New zeal and ac- 

 tivity have characterized the management of the American Museum in 

 New York, and of the collections in Philadelphia. In the reports of the 

 National Museum in Washington will be found detailed statements of 

 work done and of the accessions. 



