470 PROGRi:SS OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1892. 



This is by far the most important assembhige of aiitliiopologists iu 

 Euro])e. Through their increasingly closer co-operation it is hoped to 

 unify methods of research that reports from one c«mntry may be taken 

 np and utilize<l in another. This in some lines has been hitherto im- 

 practicable. 



At the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science, held 

 January 7 to 14, the ])resident of the section of anthropology was the 

 liev. Lorimer Fison. The following is a list of subjects and nnthors : 



T]ie story of Ti*; aiul Rie, H«rvey Is., Dr. Gill. . 



The oineiis of preguaiicy, Maugaia, Dr. Gill. 



New Britain and its i)eople, R. Danks. 



>Sy<liicy natives fifty years ago, W. 15. Clarke. 



Group marriage and relationship, L. Fisou. 



Nair polyandry and Dieri Pirauru, L. Fison. 



Samoa and I>oyalty islands, S, P^lla. 



Cave paintings of Australia, J. Mattliews. 



New Hebrides. D. Maedouald. 



Notes on the Tannese, W. Gray. 



At the eighth annual meeting of the Indiana .Vcademj^ of Science, 

 held in Indiamipolis, December 1*8 and 20, the following pai)ers of 

 anthropologic interest were read : 



Evidences of man's early existence in Indiana, from the oldest river gravels aloiig 

 the White V/ater Riv(;r, Ly A. W. Butler. 



The Crawford mound, by H. M. Stoops. 



Notes on archa'ology in Mexico, by J. T. Scovell. 



Ancient earthworks near Anderson, lud., by F. A. Walker. 



Arcliii.'olog.\' near Tipjiecanoe County, by O. J. Craig. 



Some Indian camiiiug sites near Brookville, by A. W. Butler. 



Remarkable pre-historic relic, by E. Pleas. 



The mounds of Brookville Township, Franklin County, Ind. by II. M. Stoops. 



Remarks on arclueological map making, by A. W. Butler. 



The preparation for the World's Oolumbian Exposition occupied the 

 time of most of the American anthropologists in 1892. A classitication 

 of the material was first made upon a purely anthropological basis, 

 and in its completed form nnide full i)rovision in Department 31 for 

 this subject under the topics: Ethnology, Arclueology, Progress of 

 Labor and Invention. 



The exhibit was bound by the law creating the Exposition to be 

 double — the Government i)ortion and the Exposition portion or depart- 

 ment. 



In order to avoid all contlicts it was arranged that the first-named 

 display should set forth the resources and methods of the Government 

 in the prosecution of antliropological work. The com])letion of the 

 great linguistic map furnished the key-note, and all the national ex- 

 liibits were set up around the ideas there set forth. 



The area covered by the Department M was of a much wider scope. 

 Somatic and functional anthropology were to have the widest range, 

 and tribes of living peoples were to encamp on the grounds to give em- 

 phasis to the exhibits. A separate building^ was provided for, in which 



