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Anthropogeny.—As before indicated, the origin of man com- 
bines many subsidiary questions. Is he, or is he not, derived by. 
descent from some ancestral species whose very remains as yet 
are hiding from us in tertiary strata? In what geological epoch 
must we search for his earliest occurrence? or, to what horizon 
do the earliest traces of him already discovered belong? At 
what precise spot on the earth did our race originate, granting 
that there was but one such locality? If there were more than 
one, the problem becomes the more complex indeed, but that 
does not relieve us of the responsibility of attempting its solu- 
tion. How many centuries, or millenniums, or eons ago was this 
most interesting event? What was the bodily form and propor- 
tion, and what was the mental and moral status of that pristine 
individual or brood? The answers to all these questions may be 
divided into three classes, the brachychronic, the dolicochronic, 
and the agnostic, as the works bearing the following titles will 
show: 
DELANEY, MARTIN R.—The o origin of race and color. Harper & Bros 
Cook, JosepH.—Heredity, with preludes on current events. Houghton & Osgood, 
Bosto 
De QUATREFAGES, A.—The human species. Translated from the Freneh and form- 
ITAECKEL, PROF. ERNsT.—The evolution of Man. A popular exposition of the 
principal points of human ontogeny and phylogeny. " Teanatitód from the Ger- 
D. Appleton & Co. (By far the most learned treatise on anthropogeny 
published during the year. A summary of its contents, prepared by Lester F. 
Ward, of Washington, gives in small space a résumé of the work.) 
KINsLey, W. W.—When did the human race begin? Penn Month., Sept., Oct. 
MACLEAN, J. P.—Manual of the Antiquity of Man. Robert Clarke & Co., Cin. 
Muneer, B. F.—Another view of the antiquity of man. Kansas Cy. Rev., Aug. 
Warp, LESTER F.—Haeckel’s genesis of man. E. Stern & Co., Philad. 
WILson, DANIEL. parga American illustratigns of the evolution of new varieties 
of man. ¥. Anthrop. Inst., May. 
The ethnical Mist of physical geography. Am. Assoc. at Saratoga. 
Archeology—The province of archzology joins hard upon that 
of anthropogeny, if it does not overlap it in places. The latter, 
however, is concerned with the pristine or original facts of 
humanity, while the former regards the priscan condition of the 
various human groups. However long ago man is claimed to 
been received by him is slighted. It may be well to remark that the Annual Record, 
hitherto published by the Harpers, will be continued in Prof. Baird’s Smithsonian 
Annual Report, and authors desiring to be entered in the list of contributors to an- 
thropological science must send a copy of their productions to me ‘direct. 
