570 3 : General Notes. [June, 
in the diversity of their hats. Above all, the affected grandeur 
of royalty amid decay and national poverty, these are all subjects 
which Mr. Lowell fully appreciates and describes with charming 
race. : 
: As to the population, Mr. Lowell says: “ Money being more 
important to the Corean official oligarchy than men, the amount 
of taxable property in the kingdom, represented principally by 
rice fields, is much more accurately known than is the number of 
its inhabitants. No census of the population is ever taken, the 
number of the houses alone being counted. The estimate formed 
recently by a Japanese paper is probably the nearest yet made to 
the truth. This estimate gives Corea 12,009,000 inhabitants. ; 
“ As for Soul, the aggregate of population, including both thecity 
proper—that is, the part within the wall—and the outlying suburbs, 
will probably not exceed in all 250,000 souls. The amount of 
ground covered is about ten square miles. But a city in the far 
east extends only in two dimensions, not, as with us, in three. 
Tokio, in Japan, with about 1,200,000 inhabitants, covers eighty 
square miles, ; 
“The fabulously large estimated populations of Chinese cities— 
as for instance, Canton—will, I think, on trustworthy census be 
found to have been greatly exaggerated.” 
THE RELATION OF ANTHROPOLOGY TO THE SCIENCE OF ong 
In the scheme of anthropology followed by the NATURALIST, t e 
science of mind follows hard upon comparative physiology. | 
this journal, as it would be in an academy or scientific association, 
ca the rule has been to allow only those psychical inquiries to enter 
_ of all proportion to what we should be led to expect ° ape 
_ The spirit of such inquiries is rather to defy explanation perro 
_ promote it; they delight to nonplus and puzzle the scientific ! 
__vestigator, who is working his way upward by slow steps a of 
higher mysteries. Before accounting for the exceptional g! the 
animals— niuses of a tribe—we should be able to prove 
‘average and recurring capabilities. ‘tof 
_ “Tt is an error to suppose that mental qualities do not aoe 
Measurement. No doubt the higher complex feelings O° z 
mind are incapable of being stated with numerical precision, 
