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v1), by J. Owen Dorsey; A Dakota-English Dictionary (Cont. to N. A. 
EHthnol., vol. V1), by Stephen R. Riggs. 
The rapid popularization of anthropological knowledge of the best 
sort is seen in the Contemporary Science Series, edited by Havelock 
Ellis and published by Walter Scott, London. The volumes already 
advertised are: 
1. The evolution of sex. By P. Geddes and J. A. Thomson. 
. 2. Electricity in modern life. By de Tunzelman. 
3. The origin of the Aryans. By Isaae Taylor. 
4, Physiognomy and expression. By P. Mantegazza. 
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Evolution and disease. By J. B. Sutton. 
. The village community. By G. L. Gomme. 
The criminal. By Havelock Ellis. 
8. Sanity and insanity. By Charles Mercier. 
9. Hypnotism. By Albert Moll. 
10. Manual training. By C. M. Woodward. 
11. The science of fairy tales. By E. S. Hartland. 
12. Primitive folk. By Elie Reclus. 
13. The evolution of marriage. By M. Letourneau. 
14. Bacteria and their products. By G. S. Woodhead. 
15. Education and heredity. By J. M. Guyau. 
16. The man of genius. By Cesare Lombroso. 
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For the purpose of perfecting organization and bringing together the 
various associations in our country devoted to anthropology, the Ameri- 
can Oriental Society appointed a committee to learn if it were practica- 
ble to open negotiations with other philological, archeological, and eth- 
nological societies with a view to adopting a common time and place 
for meeting every other year. The following associations are included 
in the list: 
The American Oriental Society, 1842. 
The American Philological Association, 1869. 
The Archeological Institute of America, 1879. 
The Anthropological Society of Washington, 1879. 
The Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, 1880. 
The Modern Language Association of America, 1883. 
The American Folk-Lore Society, 1888. 
The American Dialect Society, 1889. 
The friends of the natural history of man will look forward with great 
interest to the result of this inquiry. 
In May, 1890, at the request of several gentlemen in Chicago, Prof. 
F. W. Putnam outlined a plan for an ethnological and archeological 
exhibit, particularly relating to America, as a desirable and instructive 
section of the World’s Columbian Exposition, this exhibit to be brought 
together largely by special exploration and research and with the un- 
derstanding that it should form the nucleus of a permanent ethnolog- 
ical museum in Chicago. This plan was printed in the Chicago Tribune 
of May 31, 1590. 
In the following September, Prof. Putnam was invited to address the 
Committee on Permanent Organization of the National Board of Com- 
