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Monsieur E. Houzé is Professor of An- 
thropology at the Université libre de Bruzelles, 
Belgium. The course given by Professor 
Houzé was inaugurated in 1884. At thenew 
University, Brussels, Professor G. Delbastee 
gives lectures on Criminal Anthropology. 
For Scandinavia, there is a chair of 
northern archeology at the University of 
Christiania occupied by Professor O. Rygh. 
In the same Faculty, Yngvar Nielsen is 
Professor of Geography and Ethnography 
and Director of the University Museum of 
Ethnography. 
The University of Athens possesses an 
anthropological museum; Dr. K. Stephanos, 
the Curator, may possibly give some in- 
struction in the subject. 
Mention has already been made of the 
movement in the United States to give an- 
thropology more general recognition as a 
branch of university discipline. It has 
already taken its place in the curriculum of 
a number of our leading institutions. 
In the Peabody Museum of American 
Archeology and Ethnology at Cambridge, 
Harvard University has a most suitable 
habitation for a department of anthropol- 
ogy—extensive collections, laboratories, 
special library, lecture rooms, all combined 
under one roof and management, with its 
own special faculty, endowments, fellow- 
ships and scholarships. Frederick Ward 
Putnam, Curator of the Museum and Pro- 
fessor of American Archeology and Ethnol- 
ogy; Dr. Frank Russell, Instructor in 
Anthropology; and Roland B. Dixon, As- 
sistant in Anthropology, offer a number of 
courses, both general and special. An an- 
thropological club holding semi-monthly 
meetings testifies to the lively interest in 
the subject at Harvard. 
Only a few months ago a professorship 
of anthropology was created in Columbia 
University, New York, and Dr. Franz 
Boas, for several years Lecturer in Anthro- 
pology, was promoted to the Chair. The 
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work of Professor Boas is done in part at 
the American Museum of Natural History 
and in partat the Psychological Laboratory 
of the University, where Dr. Livingston 
Farrand (Instructor in Psychology) gives 
courses in ethnology, one of them being 
half of a general introductory course in 
anthropology by Drs. Boas and Farrand. 
At the University of Chicago, there is a 
provisional union of sociology and anthro- 
pology in a single department. ‘‘ The dif- 
ferentiation of an independent department 
of anthropology and ethnology is antici- 
pated.” Dr. Frederick Starr is Associate 
Professor of Anthropology and Curator of 
the Anthropological Section of Walker 
Museum. 
At New Haven, Yale University has for 
several years had the benefit of a course in 
general anthropology based on Ranke’s 
‘Der Mensch.’ For this course we are 
indebted to William G. Sumner, Professor 
of Political and Social Science. Professor 
Sumner’s generous impulses and admirable 
fitness, equal to his sense of the University’s 
need, has led him to assume, willingly, ex- 
tra labor and responsibility. To such men, 
many a university has been indebted for 
the growth and present richness of its cur- 
riculum, and, many a new science, for its | 
separate and vital existence. 
Dr. E. Hershey Sneath, Professor of Phi- 
losophy, gives acourse entitled ‘ Philosoph- 
ical Anthropology,’ based on Lotze’s Micro- 
cosmus. 
The appointment of George Grant Mac- 
Curdy as Instructor in Prehistoric Anthro- 
pology at Yale dates from May, 1898. His 
courses are given at the University Museum, 
where a Laboratory of Physical Anthropol- 
ogy is being established, and where anthro- 
pological collections are being arranged both 
for students and for the public. 
At Clark University, Worcester, A. F. 
Chamberlain is Lecturer in Anthropology. 
Assistant Professor W. Z. Ripley (Sociology 
