444 SUMMARY OF PROGRESS IN ANTHROPOLOGY IN i891. 
The following proposed classification and international nomenclature 
of the anthropologic sciences has been offered by Dr. D. G. Brinton: 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
I. Somatology.—Physical and experimental anthropology. 
II. Hthnology.—Historic and analytic anthropology. 
Ill. Hthnography.—Geographie and descriptive anthropology. 
IV. Archeology.—Prehistoric and reconstructive authropology. 
I. Somatology.—l. Internal somatology: Osteology, craniology, pro- 
sopology, myology, splanchnology. 2. External somatology: Anthro- 
pometry, color, hair, canons of eer physical beauty. 3. Psy- 
chology: Experimental and practical, sensation, rates of nervous ln- 
pulse, brain and nerve action. 4. Developmental and comparative 
somatology: Embryology, heredity, teratology, human biology, evolu- 
tion, anatomy of anthropoids, ethnic anatomy and physiology, compara- 
tive nosology and medical geography, fertility and contey racial 
pathology, criminal anthropology, vital statistics, anatomical classifi- 
cation of races. 
Il. Ethnology.—1. Sociology: Systems of government and the so- 
cial contract, laws and ethical standards, the marriage relation and 
rules of consanguinity and descent, social classes and institutions, in- 
ternational relations (war, commerce, colonization). 2. Technology 
The utilitarian arts, as tool-making, ceramics, architecture, agricul- 
ture, means of transportation, clothing, weights and measures, media 
of exchange; the esthetic arts—music, drawing, painting, sculpture, 
decoration, games, cookery, perfumery. 3. Religion: Psychological 
origin and development; personal, family, tribal, and world religions; 
animism, fetichism, polytheism, monotheism, atheism; mythology and 
mythogeny; symbolism and religious art; sacred places and objects; 
rites, ceremonies, and mortuary customs; religious teachers, classes) 
and doctrines; theocracies; analyses of special religions; philosophy 
and natural history of religions. 4. Linguistics: Gesture and sign lan- 
guage; spoken language—parts of speech, logic of grammar, origin, 
growth, and classification of languages, relation to ethnography; writ- 
ten language—pictographic, symbolic, ideographic, and phonetic writ- 
ing, evolution of alphabets, phonetic systems; forms of expression— 
poetic (metrical, rhythmical), dramatic, prosaic. 5. Folk-lore: Tradi- 
tional customs and narratives, folk-sayings, superstitious beliefs and 
practices. 
IIL. Hthnography.—1. General ethnography: Origin, characteristics, 
and subdivisions of races and peoples; the “ geographical provinces” 
or “areas of characterization;” anthropo-geography; lines of mi vra- 
tions and national intercourse. 2. Special ethnography: The Wurat- 
rican or White Race (North Mediterranean and South Mediterrancan 
branches), the Austafrican or Black Race, the Asian Race (Sinitie and 
Sibirie branches), the American Race, Insular and Littoral peoples 
(Nigritic, Malayic, and Australie stocks). 
