DECEMBER 22, 1899. ] 
The difficulties of placing anthropology 
‘with this faculty or that are themselves evi- 
dence of the fundamental character of the 
science. A branch of instruction that may 
be claimed by different faculties, and, atthe 
same time, not adequately represented in 
any, might justly claim title to a faculty 
of its own. 
Anthropology has matured late; has 
been waiting for the contributions other 
sciences in the course of their development 
were bound to make to her; waiting till 
the prehistoric perspective came to supple- 
ment the historic, permitting man to take 
the same dispassionate view of self as of the 
rest of nature, till remote lands told their 
story of human variation and culture 
stages, and till the teachings of embryology 
and comparative anatomy were better 
understood. The development and succes- 
sion of the sciences may be likened to the 
development and succession of the fauna of 
which man forms apart. As man is last 
and highest in the geological succession, so 
the science of man is the last and highest 
branch of human knowledge. It is to be 
hoped that the overflow from the sciences 
contributing to anthropology may be prop- 
erly conserved and so distributed as to find 
its way more generally to the channels of 
university instruction. Whether the chan- 
nel chosen be an existing faculty or a new 
and separate one is not so important as the 
stream it has to carry ; and there is reason 
that to believe that stream is gaining in 
volume constantly. 
After the foregoing article was in type, 
there came from his Excellency the Royal 
Prussian Kultusminister, in answer to my 
request of May 16th last for information, a 
manuscript statement handed in to him, 
September 27, 1899, by Professor Wilhelm 
Waldeyer entitled “ Bericht wber das an- 
thropologishe Unterrichtswesen in Deutsch- 
land.” From this the writer is able to 
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supplement his own lists for Germany as 
follows : 
Breslau, Dr. Partsch (Prof. ordin., Geog- 
raphy), ‘ Volkerkunde Europas’; Gottin- 
gen, Dr. von Burger (Prof. tit., Zoology), 
‘Ursprung und Vorzeit des Menschen’; 
Heidelberg, Dr. H. Klaatsch (Prof. ex- 
traord., Anatomy), ‘Anthropologie’; Kiel, 
Dr. Krummel (Prof. ordin., Geography), 
‘Ausgewahlte Kapitel der Anthropo-geog- 
raphie’; K onigsberg, Dr. Bezzenberger 
(Prof. ordin., Comp. Philology), ‘ Urge- 
schichte Ostpreussens’; Strassburg, Dr. G. 
Schwalbe (Prof. ordin., Anatomy), ‘ An- 
thropologie’; Ttibingen, Dr. von Sigwart 
(Prof. ordin., Philosophy), ‘ Philosophical 
Anthropology.’ 
This increases the number of German 
universities giving instruction in anthro- 
pology by seven, but does not augment the 
number of professorships. 
Dr. W. H. L. Duckworth is the newly 
appointed University lecturer in physical 
anthropology at Cambridge. 
GEORGE Grant MacCorpy. 
YALE UNIVERSITY, 
NEW HAVEN. 
POLITICS AND FINANCE 
VOTING MACHINES. 
Tue writer, as a member, from its organ- 
ization, of the New York State Commission 
to inspect and authorize voting machines 
for the use of the cities and towns of the 
state, and as Chairman for some years, to 
date, of the Finance Committee of the City 
Council of Ithaca, has had occasion to study 
the very novel and most ingenious construc- 
tion of voting machines and to seek to 
ascertain their value in economics and 
politics, and as a matter of finance; and it 
is possible that economists and students of 
politics and of finance may find the deduc- 
tions from this exceptionally fortunate ex- 
perience both interesting and important— 
interesting as a curious illustration of the 
ECONOMICS, or 
