a 
SUMMARY OF PROGRESS IN ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1891. 459 
Ministére de Vinstruction publique. Recueil des lois et arrétés relatifs 4 Ven- 
seignement supérieur, Bruxelles, 374 pp.; also Annuaire statistique, 20th year, 
twenty volumes (also other Belgian documents of a pedagogic character). 
L’Abeille. Revue pédagogique, ete., Bruxelles (in 1891, 36th volume). 
Annuario de la Seccion de Instruccion publica, Santiago de Chile, No. 112, 1890, 
381 pp. 
Congreso nacional pedagdjico, Santiago de Chile, 1890, 274 pp. Also Memoria del 
Ministro de Justicia e Instruccion publica. 7c., id., 368 pp. 
Revista de Instruccion primaria, Santiago de Chile, 170 pp. (Also other public 
Chilean documents). 
Etude Géographique, statistique, descriptive et historique des Etats mexicains, A. 
G. Cubas, Mexico, 1889, 411 pp. 
Pedagogicheskiy Mozey Voenno-uchebnuh zavedney, 1888-90, St. Petersburg (20th 
and 21st Annual Report pedagog Mus.) Also educational maps of Russia. 
Verslag van den Staat der hooge, middelbare en lagere scholen in het Koninkrijk 
der Nederlanden, over 1888-89, ’s Gravenhage, 1890, 458 pp. 
Annario Estadistico de Instruccion Publica, 1889. Madrid, 1890, 409 pp. 
Memoria presentada al Congreso Nacional de 1890. By D. A. Alorta, Buenos Ayres, 
1890. 3 vols. ; 
El Real Colegio de San Ienacio de Loyola, Mexico, 1889, 244 pp., appendix, 130 p. 
Recherches sur les mouvements chez quelques jeunes enfants, Binet, Rey. Philos., 
Mass., 1890. La perception des longeurs et des nombres chez quelques petits 
enfants; id. Guillet. 
Perception des enfants, id., décembre. 
Ueber Geistesstérungen in der Schule, Ch. Ufer, Wiesbaden, 1891. 
A report on the examination of 100 brains of feeble-minded children. A. W. Wil- 
marth, Alienist & Neurologist, Oct., 1890. 
The growth of children. G. W. Peckham, Milwaukee, 1881, Wisconsin Board of 
Health. 
Foreign miscellanies, by the editor. 
FOLK-LORE, MYTHOLOGY, AND HikROLOGY. 
The third annual meeting of the American Folk-lore Society was 
held at the Columbian University, Washington, D. C., on Tuesday and 
Wednesday, December 29 and 30. This meeting of the society was of 
especial interest on account of the co-operation of the two anthropolog- 
ical societies of Washington in giving to the sessions a scientific turn. 
The papers were mostly upon American aboriginal lore. The organ 
of the society, the Journal of American Folk-lore, edited by W. W. 
Newell, devotes much space in each number to bibliography. Branches 
of the American Folk-lore Society are the Louisiana Association of 
the American Folk-lore Society and the Boston Association of the 
American Folk-lore Society. An independent organization is the Chi- 
eago Folk-lore Society, and there is also a folk-lore section of the 
Museum of Archeology of the University of Pennsylvania. 
The meeting of the International Folk-lore Congress, at Burlington 
House, London, in October, and the third annual meeting of the Amer- 
ican Folk-lore Society in Washington in December, were important 
events in the evolution of that science. Regarding folk-lore as the 
archeology of thought and custom, the presidents of both gatherings 
dwelt on the fact that the mere dilettante collecting stage had now 
been passed and folk-lorists were engaged in a serious business. 
