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IV. Archeology.—1. General archeology: Geology of the epoch of 
man; glacial phenomena; diluvial and alluvial deposits; physical 
geography of the quaternary; prehistoric botany and zodlogy; pre- 
historic ages—the age of stone (paleolithic period, neolithie period), 
the age of bronze, the age of iron, prehistoric commerce, paleth- 
nology; proto-historié epoch. 2. Special archeology: Egyptian, As- 
syrian, Phenician, Classical, Medieval, and American Archeology. 
BLOLOGY. 
On the biological side the best comprehensive survey of anthropology 
is Topinard’s ‘* L’Homme dans la Nature.” It willbe remembered that 
in 1876 the author published his ‘‘ Anthropologie,” an elementary 
treatise inspired and patronized by Broca. In 1886 appeared the au- 
thor’s “ Elements @Anthropologie Generale,” an elaborate volume of 
over eleven hundred pages, of which the present work is a comprehen- 
sive abridgement, bringing the subject down to date: The lectures in 
the Ecole @ Anthropologie, based on studies made upon materials gath- 
ered in the museum of the Societe d’ Anthropologie, the Musee Broca, 
of the Ecole, and in other collections of Paris, continue to be the best 
effort to make public the results of biological anthropology. In our 
own country, outside the medical colleges and the Surgeon General’s 
laboratory, little anthropo-biological work was done; an exception is 
to be made in the matter of psycho-physies. If one should wish how- 
ever to become acquainted with the biological work of the world, he 
would only have to turn to the Index Medicus and the Index Catalogue 
of the Surgeon General’s library. The purely anthropological part of 
these catalogues also appears in the current numbers of American An- 
thropologist, edited by Dr. Robert Fletcher. 
Psycho-physics.—F or the study of psysho-physies and kindred branches 
of anthropology the American Journal of Psychology is the standard 
authority, The current literature of the world is there reviewed, and 
the titles of foreign periodicals and journals contributing to the science 
are given. 
In Mareh, Dr. Henry H. Donaldson delivered before the Boston 
Medico-Psychological Society a course of six lectures on cerebral local- 
ization. This series draws attention to a doubly interesting fact, 
hamely, the existence of a medico psychological society, coupled with a 
course of publie lectures for pedagogical purposes. ‘Che subjects of 
the lectures were as follows: . 
(1) Recent advances in our knowledge concerning the structure of 
nerve cells aud nerve fibers, and the relation of these to one another. 
The most valuable anthropometric publication of the year is Risley’s 
“Tribes and Castes of India,” two octavo volumes, containing 876 pages 
of measurements, to be followed by a volume which will give full analyses 
of the data, indicating their bearing upon the ethnology of northern 
India, and also upon certain more general questions which have been 
