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V. ANTHROPOLOGY. 
1. Lectures on Man: his Place in Creation and in the History of 
the Earth. By Dr. Carl Vogt. Edited by James Hunt, 
Ph.D. London, 1864. 
2. The Plurality of the Human Race. By Georges Pouchet, M.D. 
Translated and edited by H. J. C. Beavan. London, 1864. 
3. Memoirs Read before the Anthropological Society of London. 
Vol. I. 1863-4. London, 1865. 
4, The Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. 
Translated and edited by Thomas Bendyshe, M.A. London, 
1865. 
Tue works, the titles of which we have placed at the head of this 
article, have been issued by the Council of the Anthropological 
Society of London, to their fellow members during the past twelve 
months, and may be accepted as affording a tolerably faithful 
representation, not only of what the Society has accomplished during 
that period, but what are the tendencies and objects of its principal 
members. 
We have heard or read somewhere, that if a number of young 
men, with some small share of ability, were to unite together and 
form a society, one of the leading rules of which should be to lose 
no opportunity of sounding each other’s praises, the world might in 
process of time be almost brought to believe that a new and 
dazzling coruscation of talent had blazed forth, and that a fresh 
and startling revelation would shortly be announced. This seems 
to be the principle on which the leading members of the Anthro- 
pological Society of London have acted, such the process by the 
agency of which they seek to reach the Temple of Fame. Accord- 
ingly, we find the President, Dr. James Hunt, quoting, and of 
course with much approbation, the sayings and doings of the 
Assistant-secretary, Mr. C. Carter Blake. Member of Council, Mr. 
Beavan, is equally complimentary ; and so the pleasant and highly- 
seasoned ball of flattery is tossed to and fro between President and 
Vice-president, Secretary, Treasurer, and Member of Council, 
though, we must confess, we are unable to see what these gentlemen 
have either said or done to merit so much laudation as they lavish 
on each other. ; 
Vogt’s work on Man consists of a series of lectures delivered at 
the request of the Useful Knowledge Society, of the Canton of 
Neufchatel. It is written in a popular form, and discusses the 
interesting problems of man’s antiquity on earth and his relations 
to the lower animals, which have been rendered go familiar to the 
English public by the recent writings of Darwin, Lyell, and 
Huxley, and by the many controversies and discussions to which 
