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Art aiui medisBval armor fiiut their resting pjuce at present in the 

 Corcoran Art Gallery. 



In 1885 was organized in Washington the Woman's Anthropological 

 Society, with Mrs. Tilly Stevenson as president, and Miss Sarah Scnll 

 as corresponding secretary. The object of this association is twofold — 

 to conduct investigations to which the avenues are especially open to 

 women, and to encourage the ses in the prosecution of scientific work. 



The Ecole d'Anthropologie, of Paris, carried through successfully dur- 

 ing the year the following programme: 



Zoologic Anthropoloffi/. — M. Mathias Duval. Anthropogeny and Em- 

 bryology compared; study of the first i)hases of development. 



(jleneral A/itJiropology. — Dr. L*aul Topinard. Analytical study of ra- 

 cial characteristics; difit'erence between races and peo])les; evolution of 

 laces in time. 



Prehhior'w Anthropology. — ]M. d(; Mortii](^t. Les Tem])s photohisto- 

 riques. 



Ethnology. — M. Dally. 1. Description of humau races; their geo- 

 graphical distribution; races supposed to be pure, crosses of certaiu 

 ethnic groups. 2. Sociology according to Compte «& Spencer. 



JAnguistic Anthropology. — Til. Hovelacqiie. Language in its relations 

 ro races and peoples. 



Medical Geography. — M. Bordicr. Influences of environment and in 

 particular of social environment upon the production, progress, and 

 spread of diseases. 



Complementary course. — Zoologic ^Vnthropology. M. Herve. Paral- 

 lelisms of anatomy between man and the higher animals. Comparative 

 anatomy of the muscles and the viscera. Comparative and human tera- 

 tology; njonstrosities in general. 



Biologic Ayithropology. — M. Bianchard. Ceneral physiological resem- 

 blances between man and the animals. 



Composite Photography is taking its place among the instruments of 

 anthropology, in one case the handwriting having been subjected to its 

 methods in order to arrive at the type or mean expression of each letter. 

 In this case the purpose was to detect fraud. Dr. Neubauer has made 

 an excellent study of the race types of the Jews, followed up by Mr. 

 Jacobs with a similar investigation concerning the modern Jews. His 

 composite photographs of Jewish lads will be examined with great in- 

 terest. 



A serious problem in deductive anthropology is a graphic method of 

 illustration, which, while it exhibits means and averages, at the same 

 time does not conceal individualities. Tables of means have long given 

 dissatisfaction. Binomial curves are of great use up to three or four 

 series, after that, colors must be used, the printing of which is expen- 

 sive. It has been the practice with the author of this summary in show- 

 ing the distribution of mounds, Szc. to take a county or townshij) map, 

 ami to put a dot or other plniji symbol for each mound, heap, work, «S:c. 

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