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and voluntary; 5. Ethnology, including ethnography, the descrip- 
tion and discussion of races; 6. Philology, noting the origin and 
elaboration of language; 7. Technics, or the manifestations of 
handicraft in peace and war; 8. Sociology, noting the origin and 
differentiation of society; 9. Religion, embracing all discussions 
concerning the origin and forms of the religious sentiment; 10. 
The description of all the instrumentalities of research, museums, 
libraries, journals, works of general merit, instructions to col- 
lectors, instruments of precision, and bibliography. 
The term comparative biology, while really embracing all that 
relates to all living beings, has, in anthropology, more immediate 
relation with classes three and four. We have just laid aside a 
charming work which, in another department of zodlogy, discusses 
the subject of biology in these two aspects. We refer to St, 
George Mivart’s work on the Cat, published in 1881, by Charles 
Scribner's Sons of New York. Indeed, as hundreds of intelligent 
scope and characters of cat language. id 
Had we space, it would be profitable to discuss some of the 
author's grounds at length, but this is one of the works on 
anatomy which students of anthropology cannot afford to omit. 
