616 Progress of Anthropology in America [August, 
PROGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN AMERICA 
DURING THE YEAR 1880. 
BY PROFESSOR OTIS T. MASON. 
fe E definition given to anthropology in the last year's sketch, 
published in the Natrurauist, May, 1880, is still retained. 
And the restricted area of this summary must also preclude any 
referenée to the vast body of literature which has accumulated 
upon this subject in all the civilized countries of Europe. By 
American anthropology, however, we would be understood to 
mean both the subjective and the objective view of the term— 
publications (1) upon the anthropology of the American races, 
wherever they may have been printed, and (2) works by Ameri- 
can anthropologists, whatever may have been the special branch 
of the science upon which they wrote. 
The subdivisions of anthropology are somewhat arbitrary; 
indeed, those adopted here represent specialists rather than sharp 
lines of scientific demarcation. It is very convenient, however, to 
' group the titles of papers in the following order : 
1. Anthropogeny, 
1. Archeology. 
11. Biology. 
Iv. Comparative psychology, 
v. Ethnology. 
vi. Linguistic anthropology, 
vit. Technology. 
vill. Sociology. 
1x. Religion. 
x. Instrumentalities. 
1. Anthropogeny.—The appearance in an English translation of 
Ernst Haeckel’s “ Genesis of Man,” during the year 1879, m4! é 
an epoch in anthropology. No such contribution to one 
and phylogeny appeared in 1880, but the statements of Haecke 
have been taken up in detail, examined, attacked and defended 
with great spirit. k 
American scholarship continues to occupy a very humble see 
in this department of our subject, as the following titles ™’ 
show: 
Git, THEOpORE—(Washington, D.C.) On the Zodlogical Relations 
Tr. Anthrop, Soc., Washington. 1,p.15. [A résumé of the doctrine 
lution, ] 
of Man. 
of evo- 
