A PREFATORY NOTE. 



Doctor Giuseppe Sergi, professor of Anthropology in the 

 Royal University of Rome, Italy, has made for himself a distin- 

 guished position by the ardor with which he has pursued the 

 branch of science which he represents and the numerous valuable 

 contributions he has made to its literature. A brief sketch of his 

 career will form an appropriate introduction to the summary of 

 his doctrines of craniology which is here translated. * 



Dr. Sergi was bom in Messina, Sicily, in 1841. His academic 

 education was received in the Universities of Messina and 

 Bologna, where he devoted himself especially to the departments 

 of comparative anatomy and the philology of the Indo-European 

 languages. In 1880 he was appointed to the chair of Anthro- 

 pology in the University of Bologna, and four years later to the 

 same position in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of 

 Rome. In this field he has shown much energy, having by his 

 personal exertions founded there the Museum of Anthropology 

 and the Laboratory for Experimental Psychology. His lectures 

 are attended by a constantly increasing class, and on the organi- 

 zation of the Society of Anthropology of Rome he was chosen 

 as its first president, which position he still holds. He is also a 

 regular, corresponding or honorary member of many learned 

 societies in his own and other countries, among which may be 

 mentioned in the United States the Anthropological Society of 

 Washington, the American Philosophical Society, and the Numis- 

 matic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia. 



His published works have been very numerous, beginning with 

 " Principles of Psychology," in two volumes, issued at Messina in 

 1874, and of which a new edition is announced for this year (1894). 

 These writings include a wide variety of subjects in physical and 

 psychical anthropology and in education. Some are of a popular 

 character, but the majority are strictly scientific and have been 



' Le Varieta Umane. Principi e methodo di classificazione. Di Giuseppe 

 Sergi. Torino, 1893. 8vo, pp. 60. 



