PROGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1889. 597 



The memorable event in onr science was tbe Paris Exposition, and 

 especially that i)ortion of it called "Exposition retrospective du travail 

 et des sciences anthropologi(pies." The design of this portion of the 

 world's great fair was to trace in outline by means of specimens, re-pro- 

 ductions, authentic documents and villages inhabited by native peo- 

 ples, the steps of human genius from their first trace to the present 

 moment. Associated with this exhibition of inventiou were the speci- 

 mens of man himself, shown in the savage Just as he came from the 

 bauds of nature, and in other races as he has improved with time. Fin- 

 ally, the cabinets of skeletons and the soft parts of the body in plaster and 

 papier-mache were so installed as to exhibit mau associated with his 

 inventions; the skull and the brain, laboratory of thought and tliscov- 

 ery : the skeleton and its contents, articulated machine to execute the 

 conceptions of the central oflice. 



A building entitled Palais des Arts Liberaux was devoted to the serial 

 display of the history of iuveution, a large space on the Esplanade des 

 luvalides was covered with villages of Africans and natives of south- 

 eastern Asia. The whole Exposition was filled with the clinuixes of 

 modern thought in every land, the Champs de Mars was fringed with 

 structures which enabled the student to grasp iu a cottp tVail the his- 

 tory and the natural history of architecture. 



The arrangement of objects embraced the following classes : (1) An- 

 thropology and ethnography, anatomy and races of mankind. (2) 

 Liberal arts. (3) Arts and trades. (4) Transportation. (5) Military 

 arts. 



In addition to this, a very interesting conception was that of showing 

 also the organized machinery for the study of anthropology iu Paris. 

 To this end the Societed'Authropologie, the Iilcole d' Anthropologic and 

 the Laboratoired'Anthropologie, under the regime of public instruction, 

 made a display iu the Palais des Arts Liberaux. The institutions of 

 Paris, united more or less for studying the natural history of man, are 

 the following : 



(1) Societe d''Anthro2)ologie, t'oimdedMaj Id, 1859, publishes bulletins 

 and memoires. The collections of the society are styled, since 1880, 

 the Musee Broca, and the literary collections, Pibliothe<]ue de la So- 

 ciete d'Anthropblogie. Two prizes, the Godard and the Broca, furnish 

 an effective stimulus to thorough work. 



(2) Lahoratoire iV Aniliropolofjie (T^^cole des hautes T^iltudes), founded 

 by Broca- in 1878. During the period from 1878 to 1889 the Lahora- 

 toire published 378 separate titles. 



(3) Ecole d' AnthropoJogie, first authorized iu 1870. This school is 

 an annual course of lectuics by the most distinguished men in France 

 upon the different branches of anthropology. 



The following foundations are accessory to the three above named. 

 (1) Sociefe iTAntopHie mntuelle. — In 1870 a group of members of the 

 Soci^te d'Anthropologie formed afraternity, the object of which is to 



