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SCIENCE. 



FN. S. Vol. 7111. No. 185. 



The first part of this book is given up to analy- 

 ses of single constituents, while farther on the 

 the student is given methods of analyzing food, 

 water, urine and soils. It is impossible to treat 

 these subjects satisfactorily in a few pages, and 

 the mere mechanical analysis of a few of these 

 products would prove of little value to one who 

 might have to deal with related substances. 

 The chief objection to the book might be 

 summed up in the statement that it is too me- 

 chanical. 



J. E. G. 



The Study of Man. By Alfeed C. Haddon, M. 



A., D. Sc, etc. New York, G. P. Putnam's 



Sons. 1898. Illustrated. Pp. 410. (The 



Science Series ; Edited by J. McKeen Cattell 



and F. E. Beddard.) 



In examining Dr. Haddon's work it is just to 

 bear in mind that he does not present it as 'a 

 treatise on anthropology or its methods, but 

 merely a collection of samples of the way in 

 which parts of the subject are studied.' It is 

 'not intended for scientific students,' but for 

 the amateur and the general reader. 



It may be pardoned in a reviewer who has fol- 

 lowed with admiration Dr. Haddon's thorough 

 ethnographical work to express a sense of re- 

 gret that the author did not choose a severer 

 model and a higher intention than he has ac- 

 knowledged in these words. What the ' study 

 of man ' needs more than anything else just now 

 is a series of comprehensive text-books, setting 

 forth the methods pursued, the results attained, 

 and the fields of future investigation adopted 

 by and included in the general term Anthro- 

 pology. It would be possible to write these in 

 a form not repellent to the general reader and 

 yet meeting fully the requirements of the stu- 

 dent. It was the error of the series commenced 

 publication by the Appletons that it drifted into 

 small monographs, well enough in their way, 

 but of slight educational value ; and education 

 in anthropological matters is what is most lack- 

 ing at the present epoch. 



Returning to Dr. Haddon's 'samples,' the 

 inventory of them includes specimens mainly 

 from two departments of anthropology, soma- 

 tology and folk-lore. They are the two ex- 

 tremes of the anthropological curriculum, and 



perhaps for that very reason were chosen. In 

 the former he discusses in a pleasant way the 

 principal measurements in anthropometry, Ber- 

 tillon's methods, skull-indices, the color-scale in 

 hair and eyes, and the form of the nose. A 

 chapter is devoted to Dr. Collignon's admirable 

 monograph on the ethnography of the Dordogne 

 district. Others take up the evolution of the 

 cart and the origin of the Irish jaunting car. 



The latter half of the book is devoted to 

 games and toys, those of children, savages and 

 grown-up people. This is a comparatively re- 

 cent field of research, and its fruitage promises 

 to be of much greater value than was imagined 

 by the earlier writers. Games are frequently 

 the survivals of sacred ceremonies, and are pe- 

 culiarly tenacious of early forms and expres- 

 sions. Of the subjects under this head considered 

 by Dr. Haddon the more important are kites, 

 tops, the bull-roarer, and singing, courting 

 and funeral games. Concerning all of them he 

 collects interesting material and adds to it from 

 his personal observations. 



In his last chapter the author reprints the 

 directions of the committee ' to conduct an 

 ethnographical survey of the United Kingdom' 

 appointed by the British Association in 1892, 

 with additional practical suggestions of his own. 

 A thorough index closes the volume. 



The illustrations are sufliciently numerous, 

 and include ethnographic maps of England 

 and France, types of skulls, noses, etc., illustra- 

 tions of vehicles, and of various cards and toys. 

 They are well printed, and the manufacture of 

 the book in general may be commended. As 

 the first number of the ' Science Series ' it will 

 be welcomed as a promising contribution to the 

 higher department of popular literature. 



D. G. Brinton. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS. 

 The Asirophysical Journal for June, which 

 opens the eighth volume, contains as usual a 

 series of important articles. In the first of these 

 by Professor T. N. Thiele, of the Copenhagen 

 Observatory, discusses the resolution into series 

 of the third band of the carbon band-spectrum. 

 Professor Michelson contributes a further ac- 

 count of his Echelon spectroscope, to which we 

 have already called attention. Notes on the 



