352 Sketch of North American Anthropology in 1879. (May, 
that groups of men possess anatomical and physiological pecu- 
liarities which distinguish them as races or varieties, which seem 
to link them with animal groups not far below them, and which 
indicate an increase in refinement of organism coincident with the 
progress of civilization. A better knowledge of somatic charac- 
teristics has also enabled the anthropologists to call upon the 
witness stand other portions of the organism than the cranium. 
That American works in this field fall far behind those of Europe 
upon the same subject, any one may convince himself who will 
compare the following list with a fuller one in Baird’s forthcoming 
Annual Report for 1879: 
BURNETT, SWAN M.—A systematic method for the education of the color sense in 
children. Central — = Washington, D. C. 
HoFFMAN, W. J.—The Chaco cranium. Government printing office, Washington. 
The practice of medicine and surgery by the aboriginal races of the Southwest. 
re Reporter, Feb. 22. 
LATHROP, W. H.—Consanguineous marriages. Boston Med. and Surg. F. p. 8 
Leconte, J —Scientife relation of sociology to biology. Zop. Sct. Month., Jan. as 
PARKER, A. J.—Simian characters in negro brains. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 
Parac, Jour J. R.—Dental fallacies. Rumbold. St. Lou 
WRIGHT, J. S.—Some measurements of the heads of males on females. Arch. of 
pert M Fo E23; 
Comparative Psychology Upon this more recent field of anthro- 
pological investigation, few of our American scholars have en- 
tered. Among my notes I find only the following two references : 
PSYCHOLOGICAL ScIENCE.—American anthropology. St. Louis Eclec. Med. Fo. 
pril. 
WILKINSON, W.—Is conscience primitive? Pop, Sc. Month., March. 
Ethnography.—The words ethnography and ethnology have 
gone the rounds of the anthropological vocabulary. It is not 
designed here to limit their application any more than to apply 
ethnography to descriptive works upon extant races, leaving 
ethnology to cover the whole subject of the anthropology of 
races included in our third division. The following works relate 
to North American races or were written by Americans: 
American Indians, Notes and queries on the. Missionary Rev., Sept. 
BALDWIN, C. C.—Early Indian migrations in Ohio. Am _ vindipaavion, 1, No. 4. 
Te ALBERT paje ppa of the Islands of the Indian and Pacific 
Il. ssoc. at Sara 
TE Jo is origin of some a tribes. Canadian Naturalist, 
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