SCIENCE 
EDITORIAL Commitrre: S. NeEwcoms, Mathematics; R. 8S. WooDWARD, Mechanics; E. C. PICKERING, 
Astronomy; T. C. MENDENHALL, Physics; R. H. THURSTON, Engineering; IRA REMSEN, Chemistry; 
J. LE ContE, Geology; W. M. DAvis, Physiography; O. C. MArsu, Paleontology; W. K. 
Brooxs, C. HART MERRIAM, Zoology; S. H. SCUDDER, Entomology; N. L. BRITTON, 
Botany; HENRY F. OSBORN, General Biology; H. P. BowpitTcH, Physiology; 
J. S. BInLines, Hygiene ; J. MCKEEN CATTELL, Psychology ; 
DANIEL G. BRINTON, J. W. POWELL, Anthropology. 
Fripay, Juny 23, 1897. 
CONTENTS: 
Physical Anthropology: GEORGE A. DORSEY........109 
The Association of American Anatomists: D. S. 
TLJASIITS os cobosoScBOOOSEB HOBO UDSOSE CAGE RU BIEE EEE DERE SORES SESERG 120 
Classification of Textile and other Useful Fibers of the 
World: CHARLES RICHARDS DODGE.............. 122 
Current Notes on Anthropology :— 
Pigmentation of the Skin; Holmes’ Researches in 
Merton WD! 'G. BRINTON .......0--00sscceceneeswerees 124 
Notes on Inorganic Ohemistry: J. L. H............++ 124 
Physical Notes:— 
The * Dark Light’ of M. Le Bon: W.S.F........ 126 
Scientific Notes and News............-.scesecceeecesccnseeeee 126 
University and Educational News..........sscscsceeseeees 132 
Discussion and Correspondence :— 
New Terms in Geology: JOHN C. BRANNER. 
Notes on Some Fossils of the Comanche Series: 
F. W. CRAGIN. Oysters; A Review of Igno- 
rance: GEORGE CHAS. BUCHANAN. Cerebral 
Tight) Bre Wis) SCRIPTURE: .....42-..sasenesoe) serosses 133 
Scientific Literature :— 
Schulize’s Grundriss der Entwickelungsgeschichte ; 
C.S. Minor. Apstein on Das Susswasserplankton : 
C. A. Koror. Geologic Atlas of the United 
IS LLCS nents p rates ieccscisese aseusceecesisetcrsmpesstaessaceees 139 
Scientific Journals :— 
The American Chemical Journal: 
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J. ELLIOTT 
MSS. intended for publication and books, ete., intended 
for review should be sent to the responsible editor, Prof. J. 
McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY.* 
PuysIcAL anthropology is that branch of 
the broader field of anthropology which 
treats of physical man. It has nothing to 
do with man as a social being; it is not 
* A lecture delivered at the Field Columbian Mu- 
seum, March 20, 1897. 
concerned with the products of his hands 
or of his brain; it deals neither with tech- 
nology, language, government, law, sociol- 
ogy, folk-lore nor religion ; it treats of man 
as an animal. 
We may for the sake of convenience con- 
sider four views of the subject. These are: 
(a) the scope of physical anthropology ; 
(b) the problems of physical anthropology; 
(¢) physical anthropology in its relation to 
museum exhibition; and (d) the impor- 
tance or value of physical anthropology. 
(a) The Scope of Physical Anthropology. 
Physical anthropology assumes that man 
is an animal; is a member of the brute 
world, and it follows that man is to be 
studied as other animals are studied. It is 
then a part of zoology, which has for its 
study the entire animal world; and in this 
world man demands the most attention and 
the closet scrutiny, for he is both the most 
important and the most widely distributed 
of all animals. Applying the methods of 
zoological investigation to man, physical 
anthropology asks of his ancestry, of the 
time of his appearance on earth, of his 
kinds or varieties or species, of the com- 
parative fertility of races, of the fertility of 
hybrids, of the laws of heredity and de- 
scent, and of the nature and influence of 
food, climate and environment upon man, 
and finally of man’s relation to other ani- 
mals. 
