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tellection and mental gTowtli aside from the medium of languaj^e. In 

 all tliese studies there is real progress. No doubt iutrospectioii reveals 

 to a trained thinker the processes of thought ; but the careful obser- 

 vation of many minds — animal, infantile, savage, and civilized — in their 

 processes, sequences, and aims will disclose results hitherto uucxpected. 



V. — ETHNOLOGY. 



The great mass of our ethnologic literature is ethnographic. Little 

 has been attempted within a year towards developing a rational scheme 

 of humanity on indisputable marks. Under the encouragement and 

 patronage of anthropological associations trained observers bring us 

 into intimate acquaintance with our brethren of every clime and grade. 

 The bibliographic list attached to this paper includes descriptions of 

 the peoples of the two Americas, tribes of the Eastern Continent visited 

 by Americans, and even ethnologic reprints which have been brought 

 out by our American publishers. Prof. John Campbell, of Montreal, 

 attempts on philologic grounds to trace the relationships of the Amer- 

 ican Indians. Major Powell's first annual report gives notice of a 

 synonymy of all tribes ever known to have inhabited ISTorth America, 

 together with their priscan home, migrations, and linguistic affinities. 



YI. — GLOSSOLOGY. 



In glossology our country has much that is attractive and of perma- 

 nent value to offer. In the first place, grammars and dictionaries of all 

 our tribes are in the course of preparation, not only by missionaries, 

 both Catholic and Protestant, but ou a larger scale by the Bureau of 

 Ethnology, and even by foreign societies. Again, the meaning of the 

 w'ord language has come to be better understood through studies on 

 America. The whole panorama of the growth of organized writing, 

 or speech to the eye, may be witnessed by the pictographs and aerial 

 X)ictures, called sign language. It may not be that we shall ever under- 

 stand the Maya hieroglyphics; but the investigations of Mallery, 

 Thomas, Holden, and others on the same line will exhibit to us the 

 value of each form as parts of a continually improving series. 



VII. — COMPARATIVE TECHNOLOGY. 



Whether we originate or whether we borrow the materials, imple- 

 ments, processes, and products of industry, the history of civilization 

 cannot omit the arts, by whomsoever elaborated or practiced. The list 

 of publications noticed is very meager, and does not at all represent 

 the immense amount of literature which accumulates upon this subject. 

 The new National Museum will be anthropological, and all the objects 

 there will be arranged with reference to the evolution of human industry 

 A hurried visit through our Patent Office, or, indeed, the inspection of 

 any old garret or farm yard will convince one of the rapidity with which 

 the fertile genius of man adapts itself to changing environment. 



