MAN IN ZOOLOGY, 13 



MAN IN ZOOLOGY. 



By E. W. Brabrook, F.S.A., 



President of the Anthropological Institute. 



I have to thank the Editor of ' The Zoologist ' for giving 

 me the privilege of addressing his readers on " Man." He has 

 himself shown, beyond controversy, how fitting the subject 

 of Man is for the pages of this Journal. A zoology which 

 omitted from its purview the highest and most interesting of all 

 animals would indeed be incomplete. 



The founder of the Anthropological Society of London, in 

 his opening address to that body thirty years ago, compared his 

 science to the last volume of a work on zoology, " with perhaps 

 an appendix." He accepted the investigation of the relations 

 of Man to the Mammalia as the first great duty of the society 

 he formed. He did not, however, confine this duty within those 

 limits. On the contrary, he defined anthropology as the science 

 of the whole nature of Man, as including in its grasp nearly the 

 whole of the circle of the sciences. 



In the years 1846 to 1850 the relation between the study of 

 Man and the study of animals generally was recognized by the 

 British Association in the appointment of an ethnological 

 subsection to the section (D) of Zoology. Dr. Topinard, in his 

 excellent work ' L'Homme dans la Nature,' says, " l'anthro- 

 pologie vraie est l'histoire de l'Homme consideree au point de 

 vue animal," and refers to the purpose of that work as being to 

 ascertain as to Man " ses rapports avec la zoologie generale, la 

 place qu'il occupe materiellement parmi les animaux, et son 

 origine probable ou descendance." We are entirely of opinion 

 that this is not the whole of anthropology, but the prominence 

 given to this branch of anthropology by a writer of so great 

 authority and distinction certainly justifies the position I am 

 asking for it in the consideration of professed zoologists. 

 There is no line of cleavage between the two sciences. 



