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of later years I have mixed, to a great extent, the sciences of law 
and anthropology, and I cannot too much exalt the investigation and 
study of criminal anthropology. But it should be practical as well 
as theoretical. The lawyer and legislator should be brought into 
communication with the anthropologist. Their co-operative labors 
would serve to elucidate the subject in a scientific as well as a prac- 
tical manner, and would result in the lessening of crime and the 
general improvement of the body politic. A move in the right 
direction has been taken by the New York Academy of Anthro- 
pology at its meeting, January 3, 1888. The subject was divided 
into two sections, and the program of questions suggested for dis- 
cussion was as follows: 
CRIMINAL Brotoay.—1. What categories of criminals may we 
distinguish ? and what are the fundamental characteristics, physical 
and psychical, which they display ? 
2. Is there a general bio-pathological constitution which pre- 
disposes its subject to the commission of crime? how does it origin- 
ate, and what form does it assume? 
hat is the proper classification of human actions, based on 
the affections which give rise to them? What effect does the edu- 
cation of the moral nature have upon the passions, and, indirectly, 
upon crime? : 
- Does the number of suicides stand in inverse ratio to the 
number of homicides? 
5. Epilepsy and moral insanity in prisons and insane asylums. — 
Malingering among the insane. 
7. The utility of a museum of criminal anthropology. 
8. The influence of atmospheric and economic conditions of 
crime in America. 
CRIMINAL Socioto¢y.—1. Should the theories of criminal an- 
thropology be embodied in the revision of the penal code? and why? 
2. The function of the medical expert in judicial procedure. 
3. The best means for securing indemnity from crime. 
4. The best means of combating relapses into crime (reci- 
divism), 
5. Crimes of a political character. | 
6. Ought students of criminal la} to be admitted to penal es- 
tablishments? and under what conditions ? 
The circular making the announcement, then continues :— 
of him, and this knowledge can only be gained by systematic, in- 
telligent observation of his physical and mental habits, supple- 
