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sibility of thoughts without words. The same question was raised some 

 years ago in the Anthropological Society of Washington, by Professor 

 Porter, of the Deaf Mute College. This corresi)ondeuce is all printed 

 as an appendix to "Three introductory lectures ou the science of 

 thought" by Max JMiiller. (L()ndon, 1888, 8vo.) 



ETHNOLOGY. 



What was i)reviously said of psychology may be repeated concerning 

 ethnology ; it is at bottom a biological scient^e. That is, when we say 

 "race" we ought to mean blood, not language, nor nationality, nor a 

 region of country, certainly not arts or institutions. 



It is true that the science includes all about a certain breed or stock of 

 mankind ; indeed, it is the anthropology of men taken by breeds. The 

 ethnologist and the ethnographer are biologists to start with, but they 

 cover the entire area of the natural history of man. The latter works 

 out the anthropology of a single stock or breed. The latter is concerned 

 with anthropology arranged with blood or consanguineous groups for 

 his primar^^ concept. Strictly speaking we apply the term ethuogra- 

 l)her to a student of a nation or any other agglommeration of human 

 beings, but this ougbt not so to be. 



As the first question in anthropology is the origin of man so the first 

 (juestion in ethnology is the origin and boundaries of races. Tiie search 

 for primitive man, therefore, is at the same time thesearch for })riniitive 

 men. 



The second inquiry, which trenches on archneology, and is indeed the 

 motive of the archaeologist's researches, is what races of men have lived 

 on the earth and what may be the relation of the present races to them. 

 Upon this question M. de Quatrefages and Marquis de Nadaillac are our 

 chief authorities ; while for general treatises on the species at large the 

 reader must consult Snell, Kriegel, Achelis, Maladini, Robert Brown, 

 Featherman, and various translations and adai)tations of Yon Hellwald. 

 The seventh volume of the Standard Natural History is reprinted with 

 an appendix which very much adds to its value. Prof. A. II. Keane in 

 his published classifications and in his reviews in !N^atu re continues to 

 be the best English authority on general ethnology. 



The biological inquiry into color of hair, eyes, and skin, into pilosity 

 and other anthropometric characteristics is mainly with reference to the 

 subject of race. 



In the Journal of the Anthroi)ological Institute (xvi, 370-379) Mr. R. 

 S. Poole shows the Egyptian (classification of the races of man. 



The question of racial healing or medical ethnography is considered 

 by Tiflany and Vei rier. 



In all anthropological journals will l)e found more or less ethnography. 

 In Paris is i)ublished Ilevue (ri^thnographie. The Journal of the Poyal 

 Asiatic Society of London is a rich mine of information, and a complete 

 index of all its volumes will be found at the close of the volume for 1888, 



