riiOGRESS Ol' AXTIIKOPOLOGV IX 1802. 



By I'loC. Oris T. Mason. 



Anthropology has busied itself with the multiplication of societies, 

 journals, congi-esses and other means of co-0])erative work. The bene- 

 fit of this is seen in many ways; it prevents dn])lication; it puts ma- 

 terial where it should be looked for; but, chief of all, it enables men to 

 undertake enterprises that are entirely beyond the capacity and the 

 resources of indi\iduals. The increasing favor of the science is 

 observed in the fact that most of the leading governments have at 

 great expense organized explorations and studies. '■■ The year 1892," 

 said Prof. Macalistei- before Section H of the British Association, "has 

 not be<'n futile in discoveries bearing on those great questions that are 

 of i)L>pular interest." Indeed, there has been a growth of wholesome 

 doubt on questions concerning which men's minds were thought to be 

 settlcfl. This will be seeu most apparent in the arclueological area, 

 es])ecially in America. The (examination of ancient corner stones and 

 foundations, the clearing away of emMimbering materials, are i)repara- 

 toiy t!> the strengthening of the sti'ucture at every i)oint. 



Tlie American Association for the Advancement of Science was held 

 in Korhester, X. V. As usual, the science of authrointlogy received 

 a larger aiuouut of attention, even outside section II. This fact is 

 noticeable espei-ially in the large number of papers devoted to domes- 

 ticated animals and ])lants. 



The address of Vice-President Holmes had for its toi)ic •• the cvolu- 

 tiou of tlu^ asthetic.*' The following pai)ers were read 



Pi'cipD.seil classilicatiou aiid infoniaiioual noaicnclaturi' ul' aiitliropnloi^ic sclfUi'OS. 

 1). (;. J}riiil(ju. 



Tiisayan legeiuls ()!' till- Siial<c ami Fliu • pi-o])lf. Matilda ('. sirvcuson. 



Piiiiiitive uuiuber s.vstc'ius, !-. L. ("(iiiant. 



The I'cabody Muscnm iioiidiiras cxixMlilioii. 1". W. rutiiain. 



I'xploiatioii of the main striictiu'c of Coitaii, iiouduras, M. li. Savillo. 



Vaiidalisiii among tlm aiitiquititss (tf Vucatau and C'eutral America, id. 



Alioriiiiiial c|iian'ics of flakal)lf, stone and their heariiii^s ii))()n the (|uestioii of 

 paheolithie man, \V. !1. liolmes. 



Sa(;reil ])ii)estone (juarries of Miniiesola and ancient copper mines ol' Lal^e Sn- 

 pciior, id. 



( >n the so-called pahe.olii iiir iinjde.nciil s (if t lie Mjiper Mississiiijii, id. 



Urief remarks upon the aljdiah :t of Laiida. II. T. Crossou. 



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