SECTION A SOMATOLOGY 



(Hall 16, September 23, 3 p. m.) 



CHAIRMAN: DR. E. C. SPITZKA, New York City. 



SPEAKERS: PROFESSOR L. MANOUVRIER, School of Anthropology, Paris. 

 DR. GEORGE A. DORSET, Field Columbian Museum, Chicago. 

 SECRETARY: DR. EDWARD ANTHONY SPITZKA, New York City. 



THE INDIVIDUALITY OF ANTHROPOLOGY 



BY LEONCE MANOUVRIER 



(Translated from the French by Edward Anthony Spitzka, M. D.) 



! Leonce Manouvrier, Director of the High School, Paris; Professor at the School 

 of Anthropology; Director of Laboratory, College de France, b. Gue"ret, Creuse, 

 France, 1850. M.D. Paris, 1881. Instructor in Anthropologic Laboratory of 

 the High School, 1880; Assistant Director, ibid. 1899; Subdirector of the 

 Physiologic Station at the College de France, 1900; Assistant Professor at the 

 School of Anthropology, 1885; Professor, ibid., 1887. Member of Biologic 

 Society; International Institute of Sociology; Anthropologic Institute of 

 London; Anthropologic Societies of Florence, Rome, Vienna, Berlin, Brussels, 

 St. Petersburg, and Stockholm; Institute of Coimbra; Medico-Surgical Society 

 of Bologna; General Secretary of the Anthropologic Society of Paris; Pre- 

 sident of the Physiologic Society (1904), etc., etc. Author and editor of about 

 one hundred and thirty dissertations (in society or scientific reviews) on vari- 

 ous scientific subjects.] 



MY regret at not being able to express myself in English would 

 be more keenly felt by me had I foreseen the present circumstances, 

 under which such great honor is conferred upon me. The belief 

 that this great honor is bestowed, above all else, upon the anthropo- 

 logical institutions of my own country makes me none the less 

 appreciative and grateful. The creation of these institutions repre- 

 sents one of those "hard beginnings," as you in America like to call 

 them; one of those difficult beginnings which also signalized the 

 origin of a great purpose, the individualization of anthropology 

 as a distinct science. 



With the anthropological achievements of all countries of intel- 

 lectual culture as a foundation, this great object was accomplished, 

 little by little, in the space of half a century. Anthropology every- 

 where, under the influence of its own growth and of worthy practical 

 examples mutually exchanged among the universities of the world, 

 tends to acquire a special and definite individuality. Of these excel- 

 lent examples, America has furnished to Europe a large proportion. 

 Although there is promise of much progress in England, Germany, 

 and other Continental countries, it would not be surprising very 



