636 RECORD OF SCIENCE FOR 1886. 



speculative character have becu so widely scattered as to be largely 

 naccessible save to a very few, and often to be overlooked by them. 

 Several departments of science, often so distinct from each other that 

 their contributions are not mutually known, have touched and enriched 

 psychology, bringing to it often their best methods and their ripest in- 

 sight. It is from this circumstance that the vast progress made in this 

 dei>artment of late years is so little realized and that the field for such 

 a journal is so new and the need believed to be so great. The journal 

 will contain original contributions of a scientific character. These will 

 consist partly of experimental investigations on the functions of the 

 senses and brain, physiological time, psychophysic law, images and their 

 association, volition, innervation, etc., and partly of inductive studies 

 of instinct in animals, psycho-genesis in children, and the large fields of 

 morbid and anthropological psychology, not excluding hypnotism and 

 the field vaguely designated as that of i^sychic research; and lastly, 

 the finer anatomy of the senses and the central nervous system, espe- 

 cially as developed by the latest methods of staining, section, etc. 



ETHNOLOGY. 



Ethnology and nationality. — The testimony of ethnology is invoked by 

 diplomatists with reference to European boundaries and politics, nota- 

 bly in the settlement of the Turkish problem. What are the bounda- 

 ries of nationality? To this question various answers have been given. 



(1) A nation is an ensemble of people under the same government. 



(2) A nation is all the inhabitants of the same region. 



(3) A nation comprises all who speak the same language. 



(4) A nation includes i)eople of the same race. 



At present, says Mr. Topinard, the living question is the principle of 

 nationality resting upon race, words of pleasant sound which fiow 

 gracefully from the pen of the daily journalist. The same writer 

 ntters a timely caution against the excessive application and draws 

 attention to the complicated elements which go to make up that 

 community of right and interest called a nation. (Kev. d'Anthrop., 

 3 s., 1, 24.) 



Major Powell, in the preface to the fourth annual report of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology, divides the work of his bureau into three classes : 



(1) A series of charts showing the habitat of all tribes when first met 

 by Europeans and at subsequent eras. 



(2) A dictionary of tribal synonymy, which should refer the multi- 

 plied and confusing titles, as given in literature and in varying usage, 

 to a correct and systematic standard of nomenclature. 



(3) A classification on a linguistic basis of all known Indians of 

 North America (remaining and extinct) into families or stocks. 



Relationships heticcen Uslcimo tribes. — Dr. Eiuk gives a short paper in 

 Journal of the Anthropological Institute on the relationship of the 



