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The Paris school of Anthropology not only continued its course of 
lectures, but provided for their widespread influence and perpetuation 
by establishing a monthly journal, evue Mensuelle de V Anthropologie 
de Paris. The course of lectures during the year included the follow- 
ing: 
G. de Mortillet: The origin of agriculture. 
André Lefevre: Linguistic evolution; origin of articulate language. 
G. Hervé: General natural history of man and of the human raées. 
J. V. Laborde: The instinctive and the intellectual functions. 
Mahoudeau: Histology of the skin, its attachments and the organs of sense. 
Bordier: Acclimation. Role of the interior environment in the phenomena of ac- 
climation. 
Manouvrier: Human anatomy and its relations with psychology. 
Letourneau: Mythologie evolution among the human races. 
A. de Mortillet: Industry among prehistoric peoples and among modern savages. 
The Ninth International Congress of Americanists was announced to 
meet in the Convent of Santa Maria dela Rabida, in the province of 
Huelva, Spain, from the 7th to the 11th of October, 1892. at the close of 
the session of the Congress of Orientalists, to be held in Seville Octo- 
ber 1 to 6. To celebrate the fourth centennial after the discovery of 
America, extraordinary preparations were made. The naming of the 
continent, the voyages cf Columbus, the government of the Indians by 
the different countries interested, and the intiuence of Europeans upon 
the aboriginal habits and governments and kindred topics were to be 
made prominent. The archieologic, ethnographic, linguistic, and his- 
toric papers and debates were selected and ordered with reference to 
the one absorbing event of the year. 
The American Association for the Advancement of Science met in 
Washington under the patronage of a joint committee of all the seien- 
tific societies. The Anthropological Society of Washington and the 
Women’s Anthropological Society were especially active in giving suc- 
cess to their section. Papers germane to the study of man were not 
confined to Section H. The presidential address upon the possibilities 
of the vegetable kingdom for yielding new plants to the service of man 
was practically an anthropological paper. The geological section also 
listened to papers on the quaternary that can not fail to be instructive 
to students of the antiquity of man. Section I, devoted to economics 
and social problems, divided the time of many anthropologists with 
Section H. Prof. Jastrow presided over Section H, and chose as his 
theme “Analogy as a basis of argument among lower races and among 
the Folk.” Suggestions were made relative to the formation of a sec- 
tion of psychology in the association, but it was thought that more 
would be lost than gained by diverting attention from the general sec- 
tion of anthropology. The Washington meeting was especially favored 
by the bringing out of Maj. Poweli’s Linguistic Map of North America, 
by papers of Mr. Frank Cushing, and by a minute recital of the ghost 
dance by Mr, James Mooney, who had been participating therein for 
