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pology. Professor W J McGee’s efforts 
along that line in this country are note- 
worthy. Professor Wilhelm Waldeyer in 
his inaugural address about a year ago as 
Rector of the University of Berlin strongly 
emphasized the desirability of instituting 
chairs of anthropology in the universities 
of the German Empire.* 
The Anthropological Section of the Brit- 
ish Association for the Advancement of 
Science at the Bristol meeting, September, 
1898, appointed a Committee to ascertain 
“Mhe present state of anthropological 
teaching in the United Kingdom and else- 
where.” Professor E. B. Taylor was made 
Chairman of this Committee, and Mr. H. 
Ling Roth, Secretary. Funds were voted 
for carrying on the investigation. The re- 
sults of this Committee’s work are, no 
doubt, forthcoming in the report of the 
Dover Meeting of the British Association 
which was to be held in September, 1899. 
The substance of this article was pre- 
sented by the writer before the Anthropo- 
logical Section of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science, at Colum- 
bus, August, 1899, and led to the appoint- 
ing of a committee to consider ways and 
means of furthering the instruction in an- 
thropology in our own institutions of learn- 
ing, and to report at the Christmas meeting. 
The committee appointed by the Chair 
are W J McGee of Washington, Frank 
Russell of Cambridge, and George Grant 
MacCurdy of New Haven. 
To go back half a century, Professor 
Serres held the Chair of Anatomy at the 
Natural History Museum of Paris when it 
became the Chair of Natural History of 
Man, or Anthropology, as Serres himself 
called it in announcing his course. 
In 1867, Paul Broca opened a laboratory 
of anthropology in connection with the 
* Ueber Aufgaben und Stellung unserer Universi- 
taiten seit der Neugriindung des deutschen Reiches. 
Berlin, 1898. Druck von W. Biixenstein. 
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Société d’ Anthropologie de Paris, then already 
eight years old. This laboratory became 
part of the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes 
the next year (1868). As early as 1870, 
Broca had already established a regular 
course of lessons which was kept up until 
1876, when it was merged in the newly- 
founded Ecole d’ Anthropologie de Paris. The 
latter was the first and remains the only 
school of its kind in the world. 
Across the Channel, Sir William Flower 
had this to say in 1881: ‘In not a single 
university or public institution throughout 
the three kingdoms is there any kind of 
systematic teaching, either of physical or 
of any other branch of anthropology, ex- 
cept so far as comparative philology may 
be considered as bearing upon the subject. ’* 
In 1894 Sir William Flower could still say: 
“A professorship of Anthropology does not 
exist at present in the British Isles.’”’+ In- 
struction in some branches of anthropology 
was already being given, however, both at 
Oxford and Cambridge. 
At Oxford, E. B. Tylor was made Uni- 
versity Professor and Reader of Anthro- 
pology, December 31, 1898. Professor 
Tylor is also keeper of the University Mu- 
seum. As he was the first Instructor in 
Anthropology (since 1883) in the British 
Isles, so is he the first Professor and the 
only one. Arthur Thomson, University 
Professor of Human Anatomy, gives in- 
struction in physical anthropology, and Mr. 
Henry Balfour, Cur. Pitt-Rivers Museum, 
lectures on: ‘Arts of Mankind and their 
Evolution.’ 
At Cambridge, Dr. Haddon, F.R.S., and 
Mr. W. H. L. Duckworth have, for some 
time, been recognized teachers of anthro- 
pology, and a lecturer on the subject has 
* Presidential address to the Department of An- 
thropology, British Association, for the Advancement 
of Science (York meeting). 
t Presidential address to the Section of Anthropol- 
ogy, B. A. A. S. (Oxford meeting). 
