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Editoeial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. Woodwaed, Mechanics ; E. C. PicKEEiua, As- 

 tronomy ; T. C. Mendesthall, Physics ; R. H. Thueston, Engineering ; Iea Remsen, Chemistry ; 

 J. Le Conte, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; O. C. Maesh, Paleontology; W. K. Beooks, 

 Invertebrate Zoology ; C. Haet Meeeiam, Vertebrate Zoology ; S. H. Scuddee, Entomology ; 

 N. L. Beitton, Botany ; Heney F. Osboen, General Biology ; H. P. Bowditch, 

 Physiology ; J. S. Billings, Hygiene ; J. McKeen Cattell, Psychology ; 

 Daniel G. Beinton, J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, August 30, 1895. 



CONTENTS: 



The Aims of Anthropology : Daniel G. Beinton.. .241 



27(6 Providential Functions of Government loiili Spe- 

 cial Reference to Natural Resources ; B. E. Fee- 

 NOW 252 



Current Notes on Anthropology (XII.): — 266 



' Carib Art ' and its Significance ; Syphilis and 

 Leprosy in Ancient America ; Prehistoric Botany : 

 D. G. Beinton. 



Current Notes on Physiography (XV.): — 266 



Lakes in the Austrian Alps ; Lofty Ballooning in 

 Germany: W. M. Davis. 



Scientific Notes and News: — 267 



The Huxley Memorial; The French Association 

 for the Advancement of Science ; Tlie Relations of 

 Physiological and Clinical Research ; General. 



Correspondence: — 271 



Consciousness and Evolution : J. MoKeen Cat- 

 tell. 



Scientific Literature: — 272 



Beddard's Text-hook of Zoogeography; Theo. 

 Gill; Rehmke's Psychologie: A. C. Aemsteong, 

 Je. ; Keyes' Paleontology of Missouri : U. S. 

 Geant. 



New Books 276 



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THE AIMS OF ANTHROPOLOGY.* 



A MODERN philosopher has advanced the 



maxim that what is first in thought is last 



in expression ; illustrating it by the rules 



of grammar, which are present even in un- 



* Address by the retiring President of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Science, at 

 the Springfield meeting, August 29, 1895. 



written languages, whose speakers have no 

 idea of syntax or parts of speech.* 



It may be that this is the reason why 

 man, who has ever been the most impor- 

 tant creature to himself in existence, has 

 never seriously and to the best of his abili- 

 ties made a study of his own nature, its 

 wants and its weaknesses, and how best he 

 could satisfy the one and amend the other. 



The branch of human learning which un- 

 dertakes to do this is one of the newest of 

 the sciences; in fact, it has scarcely yet 

 gained admission as a science at all, and is 

 rather looked upon as a dilettante occupa- 

 tion, suited to persons of elegant leisure 

 and retired old gentlemen, and without 

 any very direct or visible practical applica- 

 tions of concern with the daily affairs of 

 life. 



It is with the intention of correcting this 

 prevalent impression that I address you to- 

 day. My endeavor will be to point out 

 both the immediate and remote aims of the 

 science of anthropology, and to illustrate 

 by some examples the bearings they have, 

 or surely soon will have, on the thoughts 

 and acts of civilized communities and intel- 

 ligent individuals. 



It is well at the outset to say that I use 

 the term anthropology in the sense in which 

 it has been adopted by this Association, 

 that is, to include the study of the whole 



* Professor James Ferrier, in his Institutes of Meta- 

 physic. 



